Comments on: Why I love No Country

By: P.J. Ramey

P.J. Ramey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:10:01 +0000

I do not despise this website. Nice!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:33:59 +0000

Apparently my comment about cultured despair was inaccurate. I think something else is called for, something akin to what Schliermacher called “cultured despising“.

By: A.D.

A.D. — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:59:06 +0000

But this happened in Gangs of New York as well, in which Mr. Day-Lewis was phenomenal but the rest of the cast just stunk it up. I really think people idolize his acting too much and don’t know how to integrate him into the film. And besides PT Anderson has still not gotten rid of his pretentiousness. . . PT Barnum more like

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:37:34 +0000

Can’t say - haven’t seen either film. Have a feeling, knowing the directors from each, that I’ll like both. It’s a good feeling. Better than the cultured despair to which Aron seems so attached.

By: Janet Leslie Blumberg

Janet Leslie Blumberg — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:55:29 +0000

It’s when the dog goes after what’s-his-name in the river. The actor told Terry Gross that he was terrified and that the dog was the “Javier Bardem” of the dog world…. Or the “Anton Chigurh” of the dog world. Everyone was yelling “Don’t worry, it’s okay….” I’ve only seen the mesmerizing clip.

As for Day-Lewis, I was sort of hoping for Viggo — that was a great scene in the bath house in Eastern Promises — until I saw the clip from There Will Be Blood at the Oscars, and I knew that no-one else stood a chance.

So Dan, you liked Blood?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:41:59 +0000

This blog used to be such a positive place…

Well, while I haven’t seen There will be blood, I did hear the interview on Terry Gross with the Paul Dano (Eli Sunday). The clips she played really highlighted how vibrant he was, at least in those clips. Do you feel that those scenes, like Eli making Plainview confess, were so lopsided? And why are you such a playa-hata?

By: A.D.

A.D. — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:12:35 +0000

I can’t think of where the terriers come in . . . but I can say that No Country is a much better flic than There will be blood, which i thought was over hyped and, as usual, Daniel Day-Lewis out acted everyone else so much that it comes out lopsided

By: Janet Leslie Blumberg

Janet Leslie Blumberg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:44:14 +0000

Wow. Great review.

Guess I’ll have to watch it after all. Drats! (Do I have to watch Will Be Blood, too?)

There’s something archetypal in that pit-bull terrier scene shown in the trailers for No Country. These are the (not-so)guilty nightmare desires of our current specular world, the world we “view” everywhere on all these screens that we throw up to mirror us. We must have a haunting sense of our own bad faith. What would Lacan say…