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Cormac McCarthy is a Actor, Author and Executive Producer American born on 20 july 1933 at Providence (USA)
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road (2006). His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and Child of God have also been adapted as motion pictures.
Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying". In 2010, The Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. McCarthy has been increasingly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Divorcé de Lee Hollman, il rencontre Anne DeLisle durant l'été 1965, sur un bateau en route pour l'Irlande. Ils se marient l'année suivante au Royaume-Uni. Grâce au soutien financier de la Fondation Rockefeller, il voyage également dans le sud de l'Europe, avant de séjourner quelque temps à Ibiza, où il écrit son deuxième roman, Outer Dark, publié en 1968. En 1969, McCarthy et sa femme s'installent à Louisville, dans le Tennessee. Il y écrit Child of God.
McCarthy et Anne DeLisle se séparent en 1976, et l'écrivain déménage pour El Paso au Texas. En 1979, le roman sur lequel il travaille depuis près de vingt ans, Suttree est enfin publié. Méridien de sang ( Blood Meridian, 1985), roman souvent considéré comme son meilleur, paraît en 1985.
McCarthy vit aujourd'hui dans le Tesuque , au nord de Santa Fe, Nouveau-Mexique, Il vit dans une relative discrétion et accorde très rarement des interviews. Son dernier roman, The Road, La Route, publié en 2006, qui obtient le prestigieux prix Pulitzer de la fiction il accepte sa première interview télévisée avec la journaliste américaine Oprah Winfrey. Lors de l'entretien, diffusé le 5 juin 2007, il fait part de son expérience sur la difficulté d'être père à un âge avancé, (il a alors 65 ans) et comment la relation avec son fils a été source d'inspiration de son roman La Route.
McCarthy revient en 2013, en tant que scénariste de Cartel (The Counselor), réalisé par Ridley Scott. McCarthy signe là son premier scénario original pour le cinéma. Cartel raconte l'histoire du conseiller, un avocat (incarné par Michael Fassbender) profitant du trafic de cocaïne à la frontière américano-mexicaine.
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McCarthy parle couramment espagnol, langue qu'il a apprise dans les années soixante lors de son voyage à Ibiza en Espagne. Il a également vécu 20 ans à El Paso au Texas ville frontalière avec le Mexique. Dans la version originale de ses romans, les dialogues en espagnol ne sont pas traduits.
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Birth name Charles McCarthy
Nationality USA
Birth 20 july 1933 at Providence (USA)
Death 13 june 2023 (at 89 years)
Awards PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Maltese Falcon Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program
Nationality USA
Birth 20 july 1933 at Providence (USA)
Death 13 june 2023 (at 89 years)
Awards PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Maltese Falcon Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program
Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying". In 2010, The Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. McCarthy has been increasingly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography
Cormac McCarthy est le troisième d'une fratrie de six enfants. Son père, juriste, travaille de 1934 à 1967 pour la Tennessee Valley Authority, entreprise américaine chargée de la gestion et du développement économique de la vallée du fleuve Tennessee. Après ses études, il rejoint en 1953 l'armée de l'air américaine pour quatre ans, dont deux passés en Alaska, où il anime une émission de radio. En 1957, il reprend ses études à l'université. Il épouse Lee Holleman, étudiante, en 1961, dont il a un fils, Cullen. Il quitte l'université sans aller jusqu'au diplôme, et s'installe avec sa famille à Chicago, où il écrit son premier roman, The Orchard Keeper.Divorcé de Lee Hollman, il rencontre Anne DeLisle durant l'été 1965, sur un bateau en route pour l'Irlande. Ils se marient l'année suivante au Royaume-Uni. Grâce au soutien financier de la Fondation Rockefeller, il voyage également dans le sud de l'Europe, avant de séjourner quelque temps à Ibiza, où il écrit son deuxième roman, Outer Dark, publié en 1968. En 1969, McCarthy et sa femme s'installent à Louisville, dans le Tennessee. Il y écrit Child of God.
McCarthy et Anne DeLisle se séparent en 1976, et l'écrivain déménage pour El Paso au Texas. En 1979, le roman sur lequel il travaille depuis près de vingt ans, Suttree est enfin publié. Méridien de sang ( Blood Meridian, 1985), roman souvent considéré comme son meilleur, paraît en 1985.
McCarthy vit aujourd'hui dans le Tesuque , au nord de Santa Fe, Nouveau-Mexique, Il vit dans une relative discrétion et accorde très rarement des interviews. Son dernier roman, The Road, La Route, publié en 2006, qui obtient le prestigieux prix Pulitzer de la fiction il accepte sa première interview télévisée avec la journaliste américaine Oprah Winfrey. Lors de l'entretien, diffusé le 5 juin 2007, il fait part de son expérience sur la difficulté d'être père à un âge avancé, (il a alors 65 ans) et comment la relation avec son fils a été source d'inspiration de son roman La Route.
McCarthy revient en 2013, en tant que scénariste de Cartel (The Counselor), réalisé par Ridley Scott. McCarthy signe là son premier scénario original pour le cinéma. Cartel raconte l'histoire du conseiller, un avocat (incarné par Michael Fassbender) profitant du trafic de cocaïne à la frontière américano-mexicaine.
Vie privée
McCarthy parle couramment espagnol, langue qu'il a apprise dans les années soixante lors de son voyage à Ibiza en Espagne. Il a également vécu 20 ans à El Paso au Texas ville frontalière avec le Mexique. Dans la version originale de ses romans, les dialogues en espagnol ne sont pas traduits.
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The Unbelievers (2013)
, 1h17Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion
Actors Ricky Gervais, Cameron Diaz, Woody Allen, Penn Jillette, Ian McEwan, Eddie Izzard
Roles Self
Rating68%
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Child of God (2014)
, 1h44Directed by James Franco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Scott Haze
Roles Novel
Rating53%
Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard. Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes, and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller, as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
The Counselor (2013)
, 1h57Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Dean Norris
Roles Writer
Rating53%
A man, known only as "The Counselor", and his girlfriend Laura are talking sexily in bed. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels and concealed in a sewage truck, driven across the border and stored at a sewage treatment plant.
The Sunset Limited (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about suicide, Films based on plays
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson
Roles Writer
Rating72%
Two men with opposing beliefs confront each other in an apartment. The film starts out with Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) conversing about White's attempted suicide. White feels as though everything ends up in death, and that his life is minuscule in the throes of time.
The Road (2009)
, 1h51Directed by John Hillcoat
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker
Roles Novel
Rating71%
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified cataclysm has caused another extinction event. Civilization has collapsed, reducing the survivors to scavenging and in most cases cannibalism. The duo search for supplies as they travel south on a road to the coast in the hope it will be warmer. The man is armed with a revolver, but carries just two rounds.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
, 2h2Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt
Roles Novel
Rating79%
In West Texas, 1980, Ed Tom Bell laments the increasing violence in a region where, like his father and grandfather before him, he has become sheriff. Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriff's deputy to escape custody and steals a car by using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver.
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
, 1h56Directed by Billy Bob Thornton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick
Roles Novel
Rating58%
In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole's maternal grandfather dies. John had grown up on his grandfather's ranch, but it was put up for sale when the old man died. His mother has no ties to it anymore, and would rather have the money. With no home, John asks his best friend Lacey Rawlins to leave his family ranch in San Angelo, Texas and join him to travel on horseback to cross the border 150 miles south, to seek work in Mexico. They encounter a peculiar 13-year-old boy named Jimmy Blevins on the trail to Mexico, whom they befriend but from whom they then separate. Later on they meet a young aristocrat's daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, with whom Cole falls in love.
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The Counselor (2013)
, 1h57Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Dean Norris
Roles Executive Producer
Rating53%
A man, known only as "The Counselor", and his girlfriend Laura are talking sexily in bed. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels and concealed in a sewage truck, driven across the border and stored at a sewage treatment plant.