John Hillcoat & Nick Cave @ TIFF (2005)
The Proposition - Gun Thing - Nick Cave , Warren Ellis , John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat On Working With Novelist Cormac McCarthy For THE ROAD
John Hillcoat On Kodi Smit-McPhee
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- Biography: John Hillcoat (born 1961, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian film writer and director. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode. He also worked for the music video of Westlife's "Home"
Filmography
- The Road (2009)
- The Proposition (2005)
- To Have and to Hold (1997)
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1989)
News
Viggo Mortensen Discusses The Road
about.com –
2009-11-23
I've always believed Viggo Mortensen is the man , and quite literally he is The Man in The Road . Cormac McCarthy never gave his characters names in the book, and the film adaptation of his work stays true to... ... Full Article
T.S. Eliot predicted that the world would end with a whimper rather than a bang, but this month it will have ended with both onscreen. ... Full Article
When John Hillcoat set about adapting "The Road," he steeled himself for one of the great challenges of his life. "It's like jumping off a cliff," the Australian director said. ... Full Article
Birds are chirping, the sun is shining and leaves rustle gorgeously in the breeze. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' woeful piano score tinkles as director John Hillcoat frames the perfect face of Charlize Theron, and then cuts to the movie... ... Full Article
It must be hard for director John Hillcoat , whose film The Road has been pushed back and forth by The Weinstein Company more times than any other film since, well, The Weinsteins did it to Kyle Newman's Fanboys . ... Full Article