Erica Harrell
Producer

Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to catch a screening of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford at the best theater in the world, the Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles. This film is truly one of the best of 2007. As much as I had anticipated its release, I did notice that this film was not being widely advertised around Los Angeles.

A person living in LA is bombarded everday with what is up-and-coming in Television and Film. I can name almost every new network show: CANE, CHUCK, SAMANTHA WHO?, and current film releases: MICHAEL CLAYTON, SAW IV, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, the upcoming AMERICAN GANGSTER but strangely a film with two huge stars in it has no billboards, bus stop posters, or spray painted advertisements on the sidewalk of Melrose Avenue. All that said, I was there opening weekend and throughly enjoyed this film. I thought the whole time, wow what an Oscar contender this film will be.

Brad Pitt stars in the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Brad Pitt stars as Jesse James in the
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Today, while reading through the IndieWire Blogs We Love site, I caught site of a blog that I hope you too will find interesting. Especially those of you who do not live in LA and may have not even had the chance to see this film. Mark Rabinowitz writes:

“Much has been written in the blogosphere (whither the mainstream media?) about what is being called Warner Brothers’ clear and shameful dumping of the masterpiece that is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and while it’s clear that the studio isn’t putting as much money behind this films as say, Michael Clayton, they aren’t exactly completely dumping it out of malice aforethought, either. Suffice to say that the film s going to need some help from us, the folks that love it, if it’s going to survive more than a week or two more and no amount of hectoring and badgering of Warners is going to get them to throw what they likely see as “good money after bad.”

His Blog is called: The Saving Of Jesse James or The Death Of An American Classic: You Choose. Read it, blog about it, and maybe save a movie or at least be able to see it at your local theater.

Assassination of Jesse James

Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell in the
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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