https://vo.rs/tags/neo-western/Latest from the Neo-Western desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 01 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/no-country-for-old-men-the-coens-kill-the-thrillers-comforts/<p>A man out hunting antelope in the West Texas scrub finds the aftermath of a drug deal — corpses, trucks, a case holding two million dollars. He takes the money. He knows better; he takes it anyway. That is the setup of <em>No Country for Old Men</em>, the Coen brothers&rsquo; 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy&rsquo;s novel, and it is the setup of a thousand thrillers before it. What the Coens do with it is systematically remove every comfort the genre exists to provide, until the chase film is left standing in the desert with nothing to hold on to. The picture won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, which is a small miracle given how deliberately it refuses to satisfy.</p>Thu, 01 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000