Daily Archives: April 12, 2008

“The Days Are Evil” – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

The Coen Brothers award-winning  film of Cormac McCarthy’s  novel, No Country for Old Men, dramatizes the Last Days of Yeats famous poem “The Second Coming.”

The Player King

His last performance of Shakespeare was appropriate – The Player King in Kenneth Branagh’s film of Hamlet. To see Charlton Heston play the old actor is to understand why Lord Laurence Olivier called him America’s greatest Shakespearean actor.