South Central New Mexico

“No Country for Old Men” (2007) starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, based on novel by Cormac McCarthy. Filming locations include Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Movie is rated R and is definitely not suitable for sensitive or underage viewers. Winner of four Oscars and numerous national and international awards, “No Country for Old Men” represents a very dark journey that few writers have been willing to explore….

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“A Covenant with Death” (1967), starring George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman and Gene Hackman. Directed by Lamont Johnson and based on a novel by Stephen Becker. Filmed in Santa Fe. Not rated. Although it has the feel of a made-for-TV movie, “A Covenant with Death” deals with an interesting legal question. A man, wrongly convicted in a murder, inadvertently kills one of his hangmen trying to get away and then another man confesses to the original murder….

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One of the first scenes in the documentary “I Survived BTK” (also known as “Feast of the Assumption: BTK and the Otero Family Murders”) is Charlie Otero speaking from prison where he was serving a 44-month sentence after accepting a deal to plead guilty for aggravated battery. The scene is ironic but telling. Otero’s life was upended when his parents and two young siblings, ages 11 and 9 were murdered by Dennis Rader, Wichita’s BTK killer. Charlie at age 15…

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