The Beverly Theater presents a screening of Andrew Dominik's moody, contemplative Western that reimagines the final days of America's most infamous outlaw. This 2007 film transforms the legend of Jesse James into something closer to a dark poem, following the paranoid gunslinger as his gang fractures and Robert Ford, a starstruck young admirer, inches toward betrayal. Roger Deakins' cinematography turns the frontier into a series of painterly landscapes—all golden wheat fields and dusky twilight—while the deliberate pacing allows the psychological tension to build like gathering storm clouds.

The intimate setting of the Beverly Theater's 150-seat space offers an ideal environment to experience this meditative take on the Western genre. The venue's excellent acoustics will carry Nick Cave and Warren Ellis's haunting score, which threads through the film like a mournful ballad. At nearly three hours, the film demands patience but rewards viewers with Brad Pitt's nuanced performance as the increasingly unhinged James and Casey Affleck's portrayal of Ford as both admirer and eventual executioner of his hero.