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...were going to play the parlor game of arranging the most interesting, improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

McCarthy and the Coen brothers have just collaborated on a movie version of McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, a thriller about a serial killer and a busted drug deal. It's a searing, shocking movie that plays like a eulogy for the great American West. It also features the best scene ever filmed of a dog chasing a guy in a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

McCarthy is famous for two things: his omnivorous curiosity and his extreme reclusiveness. In his 74 years, he's given a total of three interviews. But here he chats freely with the Coen brothers, who have a tendency to finish each other's sentences. Time's LEV GROSSMAN was invited to observe. The conversation took place in a fancy hotel room with stunning views of Central Park in early autumn. Nobody glanced out the window even once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...JOEL COEN Well, I don't know about outrageous, but there was a movie we tried to make that was another adaptation. It was a novel that James Dickey wrote called To the White Sea, and it was about a tail gunner in a B-29 shot down over Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...ETHAN COEN And it's a survival story, and the guy dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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