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New Projects: Chris Pratt gearing up for bootlegging drama ‘The Real McCoy’

You might’ve used the expression “The Real McCoy” and not actually known where it came from. Colloquially it refers to something being authentic, or the real deal. In fact, if someone were to name their movie after it, you might presume it was just a romantic comedy. Well, now super-mega-star Chris Pratt is set to star …

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Help restore Kelly Reichardt’s debut film ‘River of Grass’

Kelly Reichardt’s first film River of Grass was released at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994 and nominated for a Grand Jury Prize, followed by several Independent Spirit Awards later that year. Reichardt would go on to make films like Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff and the most recent Night Moves, but her original film …

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Palpable Suspense in Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Meek’s Cutoff’

In the opening scene to Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, the characters stop to gather water at a river. The year is 1845, and this group of travelers are made up of three families that are traversing the treacherous Oregon Trail. After obtaining the water, they leave. Reichardt’s camera stays. She lingers on the river just long enough to fill a viewer with a sense of foreboding. This is likely the last place of refuge for miles. Everything, from here on, will be trouble.

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‘Night Moves’ gives good cause to protest as an edgy environmental thriller

There is that old adage that states if one does not stand for something they very well could fall for anything. Well, this apt sentiment certainly applies in co-writer/director Kelly Reichardt’s simmering eco-terrorism thriller Night Moves. Methodical, moody and breezily reflective, Reichardt’s suspense piece has a slow-footed pacing but registers with quiet resonance in its message about lingering environmental indifference and the retaliation against the establishment that allows for such blatant negligence.

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Filmmakers We Want To See Direct An Episode or Season of True Detective

Darren Aronofsky As the contemporary director most obsessed with the idea of obsession, Aronofsky would be a great fit for an episode or whole season of True Detective. Often, in the more intelligent entries in the genre, detective series focus not just on plot but on how the horrific events that take place within the …

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‘Night Moves’ Movie Review – preserves Kelly Reichardt’s winning style despite eco-thriller plot

What separates life on the fringe of society from being outside of society entirely? It’s that line of demarcation that fascinates Kelly Reichardt, whose particularly American take on “slow cinema” collides with our own expectation of the requirements of the thriller genre in Night Moves, which cleverly cloaks its true thematic concerns in familiar story tropes.

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NYFF 2010: “Meek’s Cutoff”

“Although masterful in its art and creative limitations, the film direly falls apart at the end…” Meek’s Cutoff Directed by Kelly Reichardt Yet again, director Kelly Reichardt and  screenwriter Jon Raymond collaborate to raise modern-day contemporaneous issues, this time in a pre-colonial fashion with Meek’s Cutoff.  As 2006’s Old Joy confronts the dissolutions of brotherhood, …

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