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...Like Jules Verne, Hergé rarely left his desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...that count, and for most of the film, No Country delivers, with suspense scenes as taut as they are acutely observed. Moss spends most of his sorry time being chased and shot at: as he tries to ford a river pursued by a varmint posse and a killer dog, or jumping out a second-story hotel window with some of Chigurh's ammo in his gut. Joining the chase, of both Moss and Chigurh, are the venerable, philosophizing Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and a wise-ass DEA headhunter (Woody Harrelson). And every bit of this way, I'm admiring...
...there an actor that you admire or who has influenced you? -Posted Gerald Caraway in Spring, Texas Some actors have a great body of work, but there are always those dogs stuck in there. So it's really certain individual performances, not individual actors, that stick out in my head. As for those performances, it is hard to get better than Marlon Brando in Street Car or Denzel in X. Deniro in Raging Bull. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice...
...stepped behind the camera: "Acting makes you feel slightly insecure, exposed," says Delpy. "When you're directing, you're the alpha dog...
...often said that it’s tough to teach an old dog new tricks. Perhaps in a case such as this, the old dog ought not to even...