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In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Prepare for EDDINGTON with some of Ari Aster’s favorite Westerns:
Sat. July 12—2pm: THE WILD BUNCH: DIRECTOR’S CUT (Learn More & Buy Tickets)
Sun. July 13—2pm: UNFORGIVEN on 35mm (Learn More & Buy Tickets)
Wed. July 16—4pm : NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Learn More & Buy Tickets)
Retrospective screenings are ticketed. More info: brattlefilm.org
Ari Aster’s notes on his choices:
THE WILD BUNCH
The final Western (or at least the first of the final Westerns). The genre as they knew it had been shot to ribbons, its head exploded all over the wall in depraved slow-motion. The ending is eternal.
If ever there was a director that could only have been a raging alcoholic, it was Peckinpah. He is a father to so many.
UNFORGIVEN
One of the best screenplays ever written, by the great David Webb Peoples. Original title: The Cut-Whore Killings! Who the hell talked Clint out of that??
This one feels like the perfect update on Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. And it basically stands alone in the totality of its view on the genre and its portrait of early America. The brilliant cast of characters includes the starry-eyed biographer/mythmaker, the kid who dreams of adventure (having read the myths), the ego-mad sheriff, the charlatan from England whose reputation is a house of cards, the doom-haunted black man, the thick-skinned prostitutes who have their limits, and the soul-sapped gunslinger facing the grave. And every performance is glorious. Especially Hackman!
I so love the opening text and the final epitaph. Just perfect.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
A monument.
The metronomic pacing, the impossibly vivid sound design (so muscular that it functions as a pervasive ambient score), the indelible atmosphere, the austerity…the violence! Everything is perfectly judged. Including one of the greatest casts ever assembled. Even that Carter Burwell end credits cue is better than anything!
Every new Western must contend with this one. How to avoid it?? Certainly no point in competing.