No Country For Old Men (MA 15+) PRESENTED IN 35MM FILM

No Country for Old Men at The Revival House Perth

While hunting antelope in the Texas desert in 1980, welder Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone catastrophically wrong—dead bodies, heroin, and a satchel containing two million dollars in cash. Moss takes the money, setting in motion a chain of violence he cannot escape. Pursuing him is Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a remorseless killer who determines his victims' fates with the flip of a coin, leaving a trail of bodies across West Texas. Tracking them both is aging Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a lawman who feels increasingly out of step with the modern world's casual brutality. As Chigurh closes in on Moss with methodical inevitability, Bell confronts the reality that the violence he's witnessing represents a fundamental shift—evil he can't comprehend, let alone stop.

Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel is a masterpiece of sustained tension and philosophical meditation on fate, violence, and moral decay. The film strips away traditional thriller conventions—there's no musical score, minimal dialogue, and an ending that defies Hollywood expectations. Javier Bardem creates one of cinema's most terrifying villains in Chigurh, a figure of inexorable death made flesh, while Brolin's Moss embodies desperate ingenuity fighting against impossible odds. Tommy Lee Jones anchors the film with quiet devastation as a man realizing he's become obsolete. Roger Deakins' cinematography transforms the stark Texas landscape into a beautiful wasteland, and the Coens' precise direction creates sequences of unbearable tension—the motel shootout, the gas station coin toss—that unfold with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.

Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.

When: Friday, March 6th at 7:30PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: MA 15+ (Strong violence)

Call it—experience the Coens' bleak, brilliant meditation on fate and violence, where the old rules no longer apply, in 35mm film.

Presented by: The Revival House Perth