We can thank The Assassination of Jesse James for the long-overdue DVD release of Philip Kaufman’s brilliant James Gang movie, released in 1972. Kaufman’s picture came along during the freefall period when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, The Wild Bunch (1969) and maybe even Easy Rider (1969) tore down the old barriers, leaving the field open to hungry young filmmakers who’d been itching to try something different. In The Great Northfield Minneso
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