Edge Treatment for Classic Americana

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the new film by director Andrew Dominik, earned four stars out of five in The Guardian. “This is a real success for New Zealand-born, Australian director Dominik,” writes the Guardian reviewer, “he has immersed himself in a piece of classic Americana, yet he brings to it an outsider’s perspective and shrewdness … A tremendously stylish, intelligent retelling of western myth.” The Assassination of Jesse James won Brad Pitt a Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival in September.