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...shame No Country for Old Men doesn't officially open till Nov. 9, since it has a villain crazier, scarier and more implacable than any Halloween horror ghoul. As incarnated by the great Javier Bardem, Anton Chigurh is a killer from hell who likes to play mind games with his victims before he makes them play dead. How could an ordinary fellow like Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) hope to elude this monster, when Moss has $2 million that Chigurh plans to get back without saying please...
...project that seems perfect for him. He made his esteemed rep with creepy, enigmatic studies of human menace - works like The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land. He'd put two people in a room (that is, on the stage) and not let them out till the bitterness erupted and the blood flowed. Such was Pinter's craft and nerve that the audience felt as caged as the characters. It just made sense to let him loose on Shaffer's one-room play about two devious men playing killer tricks on each other...
Land flatly asserts that "Giuliani would be the nominee if he were pro-life." Of course, he adds, "even if he told me he was pro-life, he also told three wives he'd love, honor and cherish them till death do us part." As for Giuliani, he responded to the third-party threat by embracing the very argument his critics despise. "Every poll shows that I would be, by far, the strongest candidate against Hillary Clinton," he said the day after the grenade landed. "There hasn't been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows...
...That happened 50 years ago, almost exactly to the day of the Mets' Sept. 30 demise. I was 11 years old. My then beloved New York Giants completed their dreary 1957 season in sixth place... and simply left town, moved to San Francisco. You couldn't even say, "Wait till next year." Next year the ballpark was empty. And I was faced with an existential dilemma. Should I root for the home team, the arrogant, ridiculously successful New York Yankees? Or should I persist in my loyalty, stay up late listening to Giants games re-created on the radio...
...messages, actually. One is that if America is going to do any good against Islamic extremism in the Middle East, it needs to link up with moderate Arabs like Faris. The other, more chilling thought, held till the film's final scene, is that this war won't end until both sides can somehow be convinced it's over. And that's an ending even Hollywood in the 40s would have a hard time selling...