To continue the Sam Rockwell Week theme, my favourite of his movies is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I have a weird relationship with this movie; they've been showing it for ages on HBO and every time it's on I'm compelled to drop everything to watch it, then for a while I'm transfixed, thinking how bloody amazing this movie is, then I stop and the next day I've forgotten all about it. So I've never seen it from start to finish. I've seen some parts three or four times and some parts not at all.

Don't ask me why. Sure, it's pretty slow and ponderous (or one might say, subtle and meticulous), but really it's one of the most beautifully shot movies I have ever seen. Every frame is a kind of miracle, I'm not even kidding; I only posted one picture because I could've gone on forever. Very often the cinematography mimics what you might see in an antique photograph, or maybe a lomo: hazy, suffused with romance, like a half-glimpsed memory. The score, like Moon's, is absolute perfection, because it's by Nick Cave (!) and Warren Ellis. I wish they could score my dreams. So eerie and melancholy. Has there ever been a more perfect combination of adjectives than eerie and melancholy??? I think not.

Ol' Sam Rockwell is great as Casey Affleck's cowering brother. Casey Affleck is mindblowing as the cowering Coward Robert Ford. Brad Pitt continues to defy my desire to hate him by picking awesome projects to work in. You suck Pitt!



Best scene ever. Visual. Orgasm.