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3 hrs ago | The Phoenix

Interview with John Hillcoat, director of "The Road"

Interview with John Hillcoat, director of "The Road" 0 It's Thanksgiving Day, time to get the family together and see -- what? Piss, shit and fart jokes in "Old Dogs?" A multiply addicted and deranged Nicolas Cage abusing people as he tries to solve the mass murder of an immigrant family in "Bad Lieutenant?" Ninjas severing limbs, lopping off ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Fantastic Mr. Fox

17 hrs ago | Philly.com

On Movies: Mortensen breaches postapocalyptic frontier

Director David Cronenberg , who cast Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in Eastern Promises , tells how his star would disappear from the London shoot on weekends, not revealing where he was going, and return Monday with photographs and objects, tattoo books, and snatches of Russian street slang he had gleaned during his stealth getaways ...

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Related Topix: Viggo Mortensen, Moscow, PA, Petersburg, PA, St. Petersburg, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The News Tribune - Homepage - News, S...

Mount St. Helens lands starring role in movie 'The Road'

With a few cosmetic tweaks, Mount St. Helens provided the right devastation to serve as a backdrop for scenes in John Hillcoat's film "The Road.&rdquo Production crews spent a day in July 2008 filming scenes from the post-apocalypse movie on the east side of the Mount St.

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Houston Chronicle

Viggo Mortensen takes his act on The Road

Viggo Mortensen usually makes only one film per year, but when he was approached to do The Road in 2007 , he couldn't turn it down.

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Related Topix: Appaloosa, Good, Viggo Mortensen

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

'The Road' and the perils of adaptation

Is there a reason why really great novels seldom make great movies? OK, let's back up a bit.

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature, Robert Duvall, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition, Braddock, PA, Conneaut Lake, PA, Movies, Entertainment

Canada.com

On the road with Viggo and Kodi

Viggo Mortensen, 51, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, 13, are the co-stars of the post-apocalyptic drama The Road , and when they talked about the film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, they did it together.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

DVD Dungeon

Exclusive Video: Viggo Mortensen and Cast Travel on The Road

Viggo Mortensen is an actor who is known for pushing the envelope with every screen role he takes.

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Related Topix: Thriller, A History of Violence, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Viggo Mortensen, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition

ComingSoon.net

Exclusive: John Hillcoat Hits The Road

At this point, it's far too easy and obvious to make the joke about what a "long road" it's been for John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road to finally arrive in theaters.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition, Movies, Entertainment

Film School Rejects

Profoundly Humane, Beautiful: A Look at 'The Road'

There's something so beautiful and captivating about the end of humanity, the last gasping breaths of life as we know it.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Charleston Gazette

W.Va. bridge closing down for Unstoppable film crew

The Market Street Bridge near Follansbee will close Monday while a crew shoots scenes for a movie starring Denzel Washington.

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Related Topix: Follansbee, WV, Washington, WV, Morgantown, WV

Ledger Dispatch

Holiday films: The big 10

FOR MOST Americans, the next few weeks constitute the holiday season. In the land known as Hollywood, though, it's the Oscar season.

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Related Topix: The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, Invictus, A Single Man, The Princess and the Frog

Detroit Free Press

Upcoming films: 'Ninja Assassin,' 'The Road'

"Ninja Assassin": A young ninja turns his back on the clan that raised him after it executes one of his friends.

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Related Topix: Old Dogs, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Huffington Post

Regina Weinreich: On The Road

This is not a movie for sissies! Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Road is a road movie on a landscape, barren after some unnamed cataclysmic event.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

New York Magazine

David Edelstein on The Road

D oomsday sagas have never been far from our collective American imagination, but they've rarely been closer.

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Related Topix: 2012, Peak Oil, Antichrist, End Times, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Movie City Indie

Is this the end of The Road as we know it? A long Hillcoat-McCarthy interview

In an extensive interview in the Wall Street Journal , John Hillcoat and Cormac McCarthy talk about The Road and the fragmentation of culture.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Northwest Herald

Animation, drama fill holiday movie season

From left to right, actors Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pose for the photographers prior to the UK fan party of their new film 'New Moon' in London, Wednesday Nov.

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Related Topix: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Twilight, New Moon, Adventure, Musical Movies, Chicago, IL, Life, Holidays, Christmas

Thu Nov 12, 2009

The Olympian

The end is near as Hollywood does the apocalypse

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine. Global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing terrorist threats and the economic meltdown have people in a gloomy, even end-of-days frame of mind.

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Related Topix: End Times, The Book of Eli, Daybreakers, Entertainment

Wed Nov 11, 2009

NME

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to release 'The Road' film soundtrack

Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds and Grinderman partner Warren Ellis have announced that they are set to release their soundtrack to the forthcoming film 'The Road' on January 4 next year.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, The Proposition

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Huffington Post

Gwyneth Paltrow To Play Transsexual Nicole Kidman's Wife In 'The Danish Girl'

Gwyneth Paltrow will join Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel about the first post-operative transsexual.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Digital Spy

Mortensen uncertain about 'Hobbit' return

Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit .

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Related Topix: J.R.R. Tolkien, Vocal

The Road Movie Info

Directed by John Hillcoat

Starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron

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