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“Meek’S Cutoff” — A Hammer To Nail Review
(Meek’s Cutoff is being distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. It opens theatrically at the Film Forum in NYC on Wednesday, April 8, 2011. Click on the links to learn more. )
As much as I approve of Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff in every single way, I’ve been finding it incredibly difficult to write a review of it. Not that I don’t have anything worthwhile to say. It’s just that everything I’ve come up with so far sounds like film school pretension. Though term papers could — and hopefully will — be written about how Reichardt revises and revitalizes the traditional Western in her most ambitious production yet, I worry that this type of treatment will keep Meek’s Cutoff relegated to cinephile circles, when this is a perfect example of a vital American independent film that should be used to help broaden less adventurous viewers’ horizons.
Though Reichardt’s previous two features,»
- Michael Tully
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Joe Wright on Directing "Hanna": "A little bit of a punk came out in me."
With only a handful of features to his name, Joe Wright has established himself one of the world's most reliable filmmakers. He made "Pride & Prejudice" fresh and vital in his debut, reunited with Keira Knightley in the award-winning "Atonement" and ventured of to the U.S. to shoot the powerful, if overlooked, "The Soloist." His latest, "Hanna," finds him working again with another "Atonement" star, Saoirse Ronan, but that's where »
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