In today’s episode of ⁠Bingeworthy⁠, our TV and streaming podcast, guest host Joe Scott explores the lives of star-crossed lovers as well as love-crossed country music stars in the award-winning Showtime miniseries “George and Tammy.”

Created by Abe Sylvia (“Nurse Jackie,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Hap and Leonard,” and “The Affair“), all six episodes of the miniseries were directed by Australian filmmaker John Hillcoat.

Continue reading Director John Hillcoat Talks ‘George & Tammy,’ Working With Jessica Chastain & Michael Shannon at The Playlist.

It’s March again and arguably it’s never stopped being March. Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Ever since the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. and then basically forced most of the country to shut down and self-isolate in March 2020, the idea of existential despair has been on our brains both consciously and unconsciously. First, of course, it was panic—see stores running out of food and toilet paper—and some were able to channel that anxious energy into a kind of manic hypercreativity or hysterical productivity in the first few months of uncertainty (Steven Soderbergh famously wrote three full screenplays in about the first two months of the pandemic, challenging the nervous energy of not knowing what to do with himself with so much “downtime”).

Continue reading Existential Despair: Essential Movies For When March Never Ends at The Playlist.

Nothing busts canons quite like living in interesting times. In our ongoing Inflection Point series, we look back at the films that have taken on new relevance due to our ongoing cultural and political upheaval. Some beloved, some undiscovered, these titles deserve newfound consideration as film criticism evolves to meet the moment.

For four years, director John Hillcoat kept a journal detailing the lengthy production on “The Road.” From his first moments of pre-production to his final premiere, Hillcoat wrote at length about the challenges of adapting an award-winning book for the big screen.

Continue reading John Hillcoat’s ‘The Road’ Offers An Apocalypse For Every Generation at The Playlist.

While much of the evening was spent on a retrospective of Duvall’s impressive career, he also took time to look ahead. Duvall reiterated his excitement about the crawling-towards-a-greenlight production of Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” yet at the same time, the actor sounded a mix of doubt and optimism.

Continue reading SFIFF: Robert Duvall Talks Career Highlights, The Difficulties Of Getting ‘Quixote’ Afloat & How The Weinsteins Botched ‘The Road’ at The Playlist.

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Now, Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the The Weinstein Company has closed a deal with Sony who will handle the marketing and distribution of their titles to DVD.

Continue reading Sony Inks Home Video Deal With The Weinstein Company at The Playlist.

Continue reading ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ ‘A Single Man’ & ‘The Road’ Ineligible For WGA Awards at The Playlist.

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And today “The Road” director John Hillcoat said in his AV Club interview that he made “The Proposition” when he couldn’t actually get the rights to the novel.

Continue reading John Hillcoat Says He Would Love To Direct ‘Blood Meridian’ at The Playlist.

We’d agree. And even though we’d give the film a much higher grade than he’d allow (we gave it an [A-] cause it was so emotionally affecting, Jagernauth said a [B] because of some of the flaws and because it “wasn’t the gut punch I was hoping for”), we’d concur that the film has tonality issues.

Continue reading In Theaters: ‘The Road’ at The Playlist.

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In fact, the email reads:

Dear Members of the Press,
The Weinstein Company has decided to do a roll out release pattern of THE ROAD and it will no longer be opening on 11/25/09 in your market.

This lead us to believe, coupled with other reports, people writing us and telling us the John Hillcoat film had suddenly disappeared from their area, that “The Road” was reverting back to a limited release, one that we presumed would be a NY/LA one.

Continue reading ‘The Road’: A Mini-Wide Release? at The Playlist.

It’s been bounced around more release dates than we care to remember and it finally landed a few months ago as a wide release on November 25 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving) after being knocked off its October 16 limited release date.

Not anymore. That plans changed again and according to a email we received about local theater chain markets, the film has reverted back to a limited release roll-out plan (or at least it seems like that’s the case).

Continue reading The Long, Hard ‘Road’: Unloved TWC Film Regresses Back To Limited Roll-Out Plan? at The Playlist.

Since Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ White Lunar soundtrack compilation album came out earlier this year with about a half a dozen tracks from the duo’s lugubrious and heartbroken score to John Hillcoat’s post-apocalyptic drama, “The Road,” we just sort of assume that would be it and there would be no full soundtrack.

Continue reading Updated: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ ‘The Road’ Soundtrack Hits Digitally On January 12 at The Playlist.

Someone is having fun with the fauxter director and started a Ratner Films Tumblr blog that basically photoshops Ratner’s heads onto different movie posters. Our favorites, “The Road,” “Avatar,” “Prince of Persia” and “The Wolfman” can be seen here.

But man, major kudos for the nice, subtle touch of photochoppin’ Chris Tucker into “The Road” spoof titled, “The Ratner.” That’s some funny shit.

Continue reading Ravatard! Brett Ratner Photoshopped Into Recent Movie Posters at The Playlist.

Sort of. At the very least, this new trailer disposes of the misleading, fake and stupid disaster footage of this first look at the film and is leagues ahead of the latest one sheet that hit the web last week.

Continue reading New ‘The Road’ Trailer Might Make You Cry (You Wuss) at The Playlist.

Based on the bleak, Pulitzer prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, the story concerns a father and son trying to survive in a not-too-distant future version of America that has been ravaged by an unknown apocalypse that has left it sun-blocked, ashen, and has turned humanity into violent, depraved cannibals.

The film has already been subjected to release date bumps, bad buzz about it’s grim subject matter, misleading trailers and now misleading artwork.

Continue reading ‘The Road’ Poster Reveals Bear Hunting Subplot at The Playlist.

The Playlist’s editor-in-chief pretty much flipped for “A Single Man” at Toronto, and we agree with pretty much every word he wrote — it’s easily one of the best movies of the year.

Continue reading LFF ’09 Day Three: ‘The Road’ and ‘A Single Man’ at The Playlist.

Hard to say, but pretty much all the tracks from White Lunar, the new, two-disc compilation album of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ soundtrack work that feature music from “The Road,” have leaked (we gave you a first listen a few weeks ago).

Though it seems doubtful if a separate disc is coming out as even something like the soundtrack to “Up In The Air” (which hits in December) is already listed (without details) on Amazon and meanwhile there is no mention of a ‘Road’ score, so this might be all we’re going to get (and there might not be that much more as it is, “The Road,” uses a lot of the same themes repetitively, though not quite to the mantra-like effect of Ellis and Cave’s “Assassination of Jesse James” score).

Continue reading More Music: ‘The Road’ Soundtrack at The Playlist.

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The major American “mainstream” (very relative) film to win an award was Todd Solondz’s “Life During Wartime” which won the Best Screenplay award. We just showed you some footage from it yesterday.

Continue reading Samuel Maoz’s ‘Lebanon’ Wins Top Prize At Venice, Todd Solondz Wins Best Screenplay For ‘Wartime’ at The Playlist.

Let’s quell your fears if you had any. The trailer for John Hillcoat’s “The Road”, released a few months ago, worried many, including us, not only because it contained pixelated and clipped devastation newsreel footage — nowhere to be found in the original and beloved Cormac McCarthy book — but it seemed to try and sell an entirely different film: a post-apocalyptic action/thriller the same way Miramax tried to sell their arty and meditative post-apocalyptic film, “Blindness.” And in a way it’s understandable, as studios always have to try and net the most flies.

Continue reading TIFF ’09 Review: ‘The Road’: Bleak Is Beautiful at The Playlist.