The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford is one of the best films I've seen all year. Sure, it was long (2 hrs. and 40 min.), but I was completely blown away by the film's amazing cinematography (some of the best I can remember seeing, really) and the actors' performances. Maybe Jesse James was a good role for Brad Pitt, who in other movies never quite gets the audience to forget he's Brad Pitt, because James himself was a figure people often forgot was human, kind of a real-life movie star of his time. And the film really does hearken back to those great '70s art-Westerns, without any real heroes or villains (okay, maybe more heroes than villains) and a whole lotta psychological tension. I'm not saying it's a perfect film, or that it's easily digestible... but that might be one of its most admirable qualities.
Bruce Springsteen: "Jesse James" [MP3]
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Sixteen Horsepower: "Outlaw Song" [MP3]
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Great work.
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