CAC Book Club: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Book Club & Film Screening

Name: CAC Book Club: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Book Club & Film Screening
Start: 2026-03-09T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Cinema Arts Centre

Schedule

Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Cinema Arts Centre | Huntington, NY

CAC Book Club
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Screening and discussion on:
Monday, March 9th at 7:30 PM
$18 Public | $11 Members
Join us for the fifth event of our new CAC Book Club where we'll be examining exciting works of literature and their film counterparts. Read the book prior to the event then join us for a film screening and discussion to reflect on characters, storylines and the central themes that drive the story’s impact across the two mediums. Come share your ideas and viewpoint in this engaging conversation with our community.
The next program will take place on Monday, March 9th. Prior to the screening, we will read Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel No Country for Old Man, and then watch The Coen Brothers’ Academy Award, BAFTA, & Golden Globe Winning film adaptation, followed by a discussion of both.
A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he happens upon more than two million dollars from a drug deal turned desert massacre, a retired welder and Vietnam veteran (Josh Brolin) sets into motion a wave of senseless, inexorable violence as he’s stalked across the plains by a soul-weary sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a psychopathic hit man (Javier Bardem). Winner of four Academy Awards—including Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor for the indelibly disturbing Bardem—this darkly deadpan borderlands noir keeps both the tension and the existential unease mounting through each cruelly ironic twist of fate. (USA, 2007, 122 mins, R, English & Spanish | Dir. Ethan & Joel Coen)
Copies of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Man are available, in person or online, from our friends at The Next Chapter in Huntington!
Our facilitator Lisa Fostvedt is a long-time resident of Huntington, New York and a former advertising and marketing professional in New York City. She is an avid reader and film fan who has participated in book clubs for over 20 years analyzing and debating great stories.