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"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"--------I watched this on a DVD last night and what a great flick. It stars and was directed by Tommy Lee Jones.

It's a dark comedy set on the Texas-Mexican border. After accidentally killing a man, a heartless border patrol officer quickly burries the body in an unmarked grave----------------------------------

This film never made it to the mainstream theaters, due I suspect to some scenes of sex and less than dignified treatment of a corpse. I like discovering films like this. What a nice treat.

oooooh it sounds interesting..i am gonna look for it now..

I haven't, but I do like Tommy Lee Jones. I'll watch out for it.

I never managed to see Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia yet either and I do so want to.

"Dark comedy set on the Texas-Mexican border" brought Orson Welles' Touch of Evil to mind - did you ever watch that, Lon? It was one of the first films I saw that really caught my imagination.

spot;704317 wrote: I haven't, but I do like Tommy Lee Jones. I'll watch out for it.

I never managed to see Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia yet either and I do so want to.

"Dark comedy set on the Texas-Mexican border" brought Orson Welles' Touch of Evil to mind - did you ever watch that, Lon? It was one of the first films I saw that really caught my imagination.


The Tommy Lee Jones film was done in 2005 and is available from the larger video rental places. I got my DVD online with "Netflix".

Yes I have seen both Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and Touch of Evil. Both good flicks.

Lon..

Thank you....



One of the BEST movies of the NEW Millenium.



Tommy Lee says it best....







Director's Statement



The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a study of the emotional, psychological, spiritual and social implications of having an international border running through the middle of a culture.



We have used the narrative form of a journey wherein circumstances conspire to compel a hero to leave a mundane place and travel through various other places; some of them dangerous or life-threatening, some of them humorous, some of them mysterious, all of them arduous, until ultimately, he arrives at a good place where he knows who he is and how to gracefully relate to the world around him. It's a form that's been used for thousands of years, and it serves us well in this study of social contrasts and the mechanics of faith.



Some visual influences have been the Kabuki Theatre, the art of Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, and the films of Akira Kurosawa and Sam Peckinpah.



- Tommy Lee Jones

I haven't but I do love Tommy Lee Jones!

he lives here in the San Antonio area. :-6

Lon, I'm glad you posted that it was a 2005 film because I knew I had seen it a year or two ago. I loved the movie, wifey didn't. Now we know who has the sense of humor in my marriage.:wah: