I love how Variety makes a casual, end-of-article mention that is all alarm bells and whistles for us. In a Paul Dano casting update for the James Mangold project, comes word that Kelly Reichardt is in Oregon currently shooting a period pic that has her re-teaming with Wendy and Lucy's Michelle Williams, and has the filmmaker working with her biggest cast yet additionally working with Dano, Bruce Greenwood (probably suggested by Todd Haynes), Shirley Henderson and Zoe Kazan. We reported that the filmmaker was fleshing out a Western-themed project, so it looks like she'll be well-prepared for working in difficult terrain.
Written by Jon Raymond (who wrote on her previous film and Old Joy), the film's title Meek's Cutoff is based on the tale with perhaps Gerry-like consequences. The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
Two dollars says this will be primed and readied for either an In-Competition or Un Certain Regard slot at Cannes next year.
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Fri Sep 10, 2010
- Ahead Of Time
- Bran Nue Dae
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
- Heartbreaker (L'Arnacoeur)
- Hideway (Le Refuge)
- Honeymoons
- I'm Still Here
- Legendary
- Lovely, Still
- Race to Nowhere
- Resident Evil: Afterlife
- The Romantics
- Sequestro (Kidnapping)
- The Virginity Hit
- Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?
Wed Sep 15, 2010
Fri Sep 17, 2010
- Alpha and Omega
- Catfish
- Devil
- Easy A
- Enter The Void
- The Freebie
- The Girl (Flickan)
- Jack Goes Boating
- Leaves of Grass
- The Other City
- Picture Me
- The Temptation of St. Tony
- The Town
- The Wild Hunt
Wed Sep 22, 2010
Fri Sep 24, 2010
- A Mother's Courage: Talking Back To Autism
- Buried
- Howl
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
- Tibet in Song
- Waiting for Superman
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- You Again
Wed Sep 29, 2010
Fri Oct 01, 2010
- Barry Munday
- Casino Jack
- Douchebag
- Freakonomics
- Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
- Ip Man
- Let Me In
- The Social Network
- Your Highness
Wed Oct 06, 2010
Fri Oct 08, 2010
- Down Terrace
- I Spit on Your Grave
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Letters to Father Jacob
- Marwencol
- My Soul To Take
- Nowhere Boy
- Secretariat
- Stone
- Tamara Drewe
- Today's Special
- The Zookeeper
Wed Oct 13, 2010
Fri Oct 15, 2010
- Conviction
- Gerrymandering
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
- I Want Your Money
- Jackass 3-D
- Red
- Samson and Delilah
Fri Oct 22, 2010
- Boxing Gym
- The Company Men
- The Factory
- Inhale
- Knucklehead
- Paranormal Activity 2
- The Prisoners
- Saw 3D The Traps Come Alive
Wed Oct 27, 2010
Fri Oct 29, 2010
Wed Nov 03, 2010
Fri Nov 05, 2010
- 127 Hours
- Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer
- Due Date
- Fair Game
- Making the Boys
- Megamind
- Welcome to the Rileys
- Wild Target
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Fri Nov 12, 2010
Fri Nov 19, 2010
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
- Made in Dagenham
- Me, Too
- The Next Three Days
- Nothing Personal
- White Material
Wed Nov 24, 2010
Wed Dec 01, 2010
Fri Dec 03, 2010
Fri Dec 10, 2010
Fri Dec 17, 2010
Wed Dec 22, 2010
Sat Dec 25, 2010
Wed Dec 29, 2010
Fri Dec 31, 2010
Wed Jan 05, 2011
Fri Jan 07, 2011
Fri Jan 14, 2011
- The Cabin in the Woods
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
- The Green Hornet
Fri Jan 21, 2011
Michelle Williams Reteams with Reichardt for 'Meek's Cutoff'
QUICK LINKS
September Surprise!
The filmmaker featured as this month's IONCINEPHILE hails from the country represented by this flag. Stay tuned as we soon release the identity of the director. Here's a clue: the person is premiering their film in two major international film festivals this month.
Reviews
Review: Spring Fever
A heavily flawed film that does a disservice to its quintet of characters by abruptly ending each character's final chapter before it even begins making Spring Fever a film that never manages to find itself. Audiences who've followed his past efforts such as Purple Butterfly and Summer Palace will be puzzled by erotica without reason, by the undefined terms in which the characters are set in and the lack of dramatic focus.
Interviews
Interview: Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story)
Pat has a very wide appeal and people who admire him come from different parts of ideological spectrum. So we didn't want to alienate a part of our audience because the film is about Pat more than anything. So we wanted to invite everybody to the dialogue of what actually happened to him and the country at the time.
Festivals
2010 Telluride Film Festival (37th)
The Telluride Film Festival history section offers a comprehensive look at the past 35 years of Shows, guests, and memories of Labor Day Weekends spent in the mountains.
Community Film Ratings
- Prince of Broadway
- Machete
- Last Train Home
- Animal Kingdom
- When You're Strange - A Film About the Doors
- Who Do You Love
- Kynodontas (Dogtooth)
- Salt
- Agora
- Alamar (To The Sea)
- The Kids Are All Right
- Kisses
- Letters to Juliet
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
- Ondine
- Babies
- Ramona and Beezus
- Winter's Bone
- Countdown to Zero
- Daddy Longlegs
- Predators
- Princess Kaiulani
- Cropsey
- Step Up 3D
- Mao's Last Dancer
- Charlie St. Cloud
- Boogie Woogie
- The Secret In Their Eyes
- I Am Love (Lo sono l'amore)
- Kick-Ass
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
- La Mission
- Inception
- The Losers
- Orlando (1992)
- Flipped
- Splice
- The Tillman Story
- Date Night
- Going the Distance
- Mother and Child
- Father of My Children
- Solitary Man
- Farewell
- The Human Centipede
- Altiplano
- Everyone Else
- 36 Vues du Pic Saint-Loup (Around a Small Mountain)
- Marmaduke
- Get Him to the Greek
- Dinner for Schmucks
- Salt of This Sea
- Life During Wartime
- Oceans
- The Oath
- Cyrus
- Get Low
- Toy Story 3
- The Misfortunates
- Centurion
- No One Knows About Persian Cats
- The Expendables
- Welcome
- 8: The Mormon Proposition
- Iron Man 2
- Kites: The Remix
- The Twilight's Saga's Eclipse
- Micmacs
- The A-Team
- The Good Heart
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Last Airbender
- Mesrine: Killer Instinct
- The Karate Kid
- Nanny McPhee Returns
- The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
- Harry Brown
- The Joneses
- Knight & Day
- Lebanon
- Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
- Takers
- Death at a Funeral
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Piranha 3D
- Spring Fever
- Love Ranch
- Twelve
- Daniel & Ana
- Holy Rollers
- Looking For Eric
- Despicable Me
- Women Without Men
- The Other Guys
- Five Killers
- Soul Kitchen
- George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead
- Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore
- The Back-up Plan
- Grown Ups
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed
- Handsome Harry
- Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
- Anton Chekhov's The Duel
- Stonewall Uprising
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Wild Grass
- Trash Humpers
- The Switch
- The Milk of Sorrow
- Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe
- Please Give
- Perrier's Bounty
- Waste Land
- Smash His Camera
- Casino Jack & The United States of Money
- Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1
- Racing Dreams
- Multiple Sarcasms
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- The Concert
- The Law (1959)
- The City Of Your Final Destination
- Vampires Suck
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