Watching No Country For Old Men once again, this time as a DVD, only serves to remind me how thoroughly terrific Joel & Ethan Coen are at mixing farce and utter ruination. Their characters seem always to skitter along a precipice, and survival often tends to be the road least traveled. Even the boogeyman in this picture, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a death-dealing golem with a Peter Tork of the Monkees


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