In praise of "Lone Star."

His most beautiful, most cinematic film, with the great ensemble work of Lone Star and Sunshine State and City of Hope and....a gunfight at the end. Perfect.

Sarcasm would come much easier to me if I hated more stuff.

bumping thread for...

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I need to see this again.

Great film.

fucking looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this movie so much, so good

everybody is pretty much perfect

hey can anybody refer me to some other really good us/mexico border movies?

El Norte (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085482/

thanks! yea i've seen el norte a couple of times, first was in college and i loved it, then again a year or two ago and i hated it, thought it was totally overkill.

honestly i think 'breaking bad' is really great as a border story. it is more than that obviously but i really, really love the new mexico setting and the proximity to the border, it's such a strong grounding for the show. (note i've been watching it on netflix for the first time this summer and am only part-way through s4)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
No Country For Old Men
Rio Grande(?)

thanks! excited especially about 'three burials' (have seen 'no country' before, it's obviously great)

the wild bunch?

pioneering, you might say:
Alambrista! (1977)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075654/

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/alambrista

just saw these headlines, so sad. RIP

oh SHIT, just thought this was bumped just because. didn't realize she died. RIP. she was phenomenal in this film

I thought the last series of The Bridge (US) was a very decent Border Drama. The first season sucked shit and was a poor Yank approximation of a brilliant Scandinavian classic tv series, the second was more like the Breaking Bad Mexico episodes. Some really awesome border-noir characters in it like Demian Bichir's principled cop - who seems more in peril this season, Franka Potente's merciless angel of death/cartel accountant and Ramon Franco's ruthless/comedic middle aged cartel boss Fausto. The snooping journalists played by Rios/Lillard are both excellent as well. Probably a hard sell because that first series was piss poor. It does the same(ish) BB trick of showing a future bloodbath in the first episode (Lyle Lovett wondering about a show house riven with corpses and blood that tells you it won't end happy.

Very good interview with Sayles in advance of Criterion's release of Lone Star. Worth yr time.
https://thereveal.substack.com/p/interview-john-sayles-on-lone-star