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For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), a Western starring Brad Pitt as the famous outlaw, and Casey Affleck as the wide-eyed recruit into his gang who comes to resent him. For an idea of where the plot goes, please refer to the title. Director Andrew Dominik is otherwise a mixed bag, having done the crappy Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde (2023) and cult crime thriller Killing Them Softly (2012); this is his critical and commercial peak so far. One of the highest-rated Westerns on Letterboxd.
After that is Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), one of the most optimistic Soviet films ever, and one of the highest-rated on Letterboxd. Imagine a world where communism won, and the proletariat all cooperated with each other for the greater good, and everything was clean, welcoming, and awesome. A young man walks the idyllic streets over the course of a day, meets nice people, and helps a friend get married. That’s it. One of the gentlest movies ever. It is Communism Rocks: The Movie. Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin. This is one of the best-known and best-regarded films of director Georgiy Daneliya, who is otherwise known for the sci-fi satire Kin-dza-dza! (1986).
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/
- Walking the Streets of Moscow: https://letterboxd.com/film/walking-the-streets-of-moscow/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/36531
- Walking the Streets of Moscow: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
CWs for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford:
- A grown man looks up a young girl’s skirt.
- Child abuse.
- Deaths of animals.
- Snakes.
- Torture.
- Death of parent.
- Suicide.
- N-word.
- Racism.
- Gun violence.
CWs for Walking the Streets of Moscow:
- Absolutely nothing listed on DTDD or IMDB. It’s just that pleasant.
- Sad ending, in the sense that this is what we lost.
Links to movies:
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://tankie.tube/w/gHHLpdmLUA8LkiSSorsgbp
- Walking the Streets of Moscow: https://tankie.tube/w/ucUPBbjTQJLSMUnTfGd6S9
