Rules of the Frame

003 | No Country for Old Men

Episode Summary

In our final episode in our mini-series on the use of silence in films, we discuss the Coen Brothers' masterpiece No Country For Old Men. Join us as we compare Tommy Lee Jones to Andy Griffith, make a weird connection with this film and The Office, and discuss what is truly important: Roger Deakins finally getting an Oscar. WARNING: Full spoilers for No Country For Old Men, minor spoilers for Prometheus & Barton Fink

Episode Notes

In our final episode in our mini-series on the use of silence in films, we discuss the Coen Brothers' masterpiece No Country For Old Men. Join us as we compare Tommy Lee Jones to Andy Griffith, make a weird connection with this film and The Office. and discuss what is truly important: Roger Deakins finally getting an Oscar.
WARNING: Full Spoilers for No Country For Old Men, minor spoilers for Prometheus & Barton Fink

Films mentioned in this episode

• No Country For Old Men (2007) | Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
• The Big Lebowski (1998) | Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
• O, Brother Where Art Thou (2000) | Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
• True Grit (2010) | Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
• Barton Fink (1991) | Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
• Before Night Falls (2000) | Dir. Julian Schnabel
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) | Dir.
  Joachim Ronning & Espen Sandberg
• Skyfall (2012) | Dir. Sam Mendes
• Biutiful (2010) | Dir. Alejandro G. Inarritu
• The Fugitive (1993) | Dir. Andrew Davis
• Jason Bourne (2016) | Dir. Paul Greengrass
• Men In Black (1997) | Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
• The Hunger Games (2012) | Dir. Gary Ross
• Zombieland (2009) | Dir. Ruben Fleischer
• Now You See Me (2013) | Dir. Louis Letter
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) | Dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Prometheus (2012) | Dir. Ridley Scott
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
  Dir. Andrew Dominik
• There Will Be Blood (2007) | Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017) | Dir. Denis Villeneuve