Kelly reichardts 2010 film meeks cutoff, which deals with a group of midcentury pioneers making their way across the american west in an. Kelly reichardt is an awardwinning filmmaker and screenwriter, and widely hailed as one of our most important. Alternate ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Its this austere filmmakers first period piece and her. Michelle williams, bruce greenwood, will patton, paul dano, zoe kazan, shirley henderson, neal huff, tommy nelson. The first thing you see in meeks cutoff, after a handscrawled title card placing the action in the oregon territory in 1845, is a small group of settlers fording a river. The meeks cutoff just released at yle arena is based on real events. Kelly reichardts frontier drama meeks cutoff opens in the year 1845, on the wideopen plains of oregon, where a wagon team of three families has set out on a journey along the oregon trail. To set aside its many other accomplishments, meeks cutoff is the first film ive seen that evokes what must have been the reality of wagon trains to the west. With golds transnational story of german immigrants in the us hoping. Theyre the ones who have given movies like exit through the gift shop, bellflower, samsara, and meeks cutoff either theatrical or home video releases, and.
I feel like digital download, which was the donation level i went in. Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on. Based on diaries and contemporary accounts, meeks cutoff is the true story of a wagon train, led by a guide named stephen meek, that wandered around the oregon territory in the mid1800s. Meeks cutoff oscilloscope features is kelly reichardts fifth feature film, and the third to receive any significant theatrical release. A friend of mine asked me to find a good book about the lost wagon train of 1845 stephen meeks cutoff. Oscilloscope laboratories is responsible for bringing some offbeat, strange movies to larger audiences. Working on a richer and more intricate canvas than shes previously attempted, kelly reichardt has pulled off a rare thing with meeks cutoff a lowbudget period western with a. Reichardt wendy and lucy, meeks cutoff, a road movie without the.
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. Meek cutoff was a covered wagon road that branched off the oregon trail in northeastern oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the willamette valley in the mid19th century. Meeks cutoff is a 2010 american western film directed by kelly reichardt. In 1845, the earliest days of the oregon trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man stephen meek to. The story is loosely based on a historical incident on the oregon trail in 1845, in which frontier guide stephen meek led a wagon train on an illfated journey through the oregon desert along the route later known as the meek cutoff in the. Kelly reichardts last feature, 2008s wendy and lucy, simply and methodically follows a young woman whose life is dangling on a precipice. 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. In meeks cutoff 2011, three families hoping to migrate west via the oregon trail in the middle of the nineteenth century find themselves badly lost and in desperate need of. Kelly reichardts 2010 film meeks cutoff, which deals with a group of. Meeks cutoff, from acclaimed director kelly reichardt wendy and lucy, old joy, is a stark and poetic drama set in 1845, the earliest days of the. In meeks cutoff, the single indian allows an alternate meaning to emerge. Meeks cutoff follows a couple of families as they follow a man named meek who promised them he could get them to the mountains quicker then the trail.
Imagine a collaboration between john ford and wallace stevens and you might get a sense of what kelly reichardt wendy and lucy pulls off here. Meeks cutoff is, by her standards, far more eventful and covers a more hazardous journey that begins and ends in medias res. The year is 1845 and a wagon team of three families is setting off across the oregon desert. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled.
Both movies have many long stretches in which seemingly nothing happens, and thats also the case with meeks cutoff. Stephen meek was a 19thcentury fur hunter who started out as a guide for. Meeks cutoff could be the most understated, and historically accurate, horror film in history. Meeks cutoff does not dwell upon the failings of the men as much as it champions the virtues of the women, so often forgotten or reduced to less flattering archetypes in the western. Oscilloscope laboratories presents michelle williams in meeks cutoff. With old joy, wendy and lucy and meeks cutoff, director kelly reichardt has defined her own visual style, as spontaneous and naturalistic as it is carefully composed and framed. Meek s cutoff is a 2010 american western film directed by kelly reichardt. Meeks cutoff director kelly reichardt says filming took.
Meeks cutoff full movie hd meeks cutoff full movie hd link in last page to watch or download movie. With michelle williams, bruce greenwood, paul dano, will patton. Director kelly reichardt on meeks cutoff and making. Its both the scariest and most poetic film of the year. Watch meeks cutoff streaming online hulu free trial. In addition to new seasons of your favorite series, todd haynes gorgeous. Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the oregon trail. 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.
In this verisimilitudinous world, they are more than capable of taking the reins. Im guessing that in the 1840s, the area was mainly sagebrush with a few junipers in rocky areas. Its the film meeks cutoff, and mountain man stephen meek. In 1845, the earliest days of the oregon trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man stephen meek to guide them over the cascade mountains.
Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for. Guided by mountain man stephen meek, they become lost and their faith in their guide, and in each other. If meeks cutoff is every inch a western, its an artfilm mutant of the genre, inching along with intensely naturalistic obsession for detail that courts tedium even as it dares us not to pay. In the earliest days of the oregon trail, mountain guide stephen meek leads three. A group of experts in all kinds of fields followed the trail as. Its the oregon trail, 1845, and nothing much is happening to a lost wagon train of three families. Settlers traveling through the oregon desert in 1845 find themselves. The west wasnt all cowboys and indians and shootouts at the ok corral, insists meeks cutoff, a realistic slice of pioneer life that offers a disquieting alternative. Kelly reichardts is a cinema of misfits and margins. The road was named for frontiersman stephen meek, who was hired to.
Start your free trial to watch meek s cutoff and other popular tv shows and movies including new releases, classics, hulu originals, and more. In meeks cutoffbased on a true storythree families are guided westbound by the crude, mythomaniac con man stephen meek, who seems to have led. Meeks cutoff full movie watch online, stream or download chili. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert. Restoring kelly reichardts debut film, river of grass by. While there are many juniper trees in the area now, in the 1840s there were fewer trees because the periodic range fires thinned them out. 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. Meek s cutoff follows a couple of families as they follow a man named meek who promised them he could get them to the mountains quicker then the trail. The journey was a particularly hard one, and many of the pioneers lost their lives.
Meeks cutoff 2010 full hd movie download meeks cutoff 2010 online download and streaming hd quality click to download. The film was shown in competition at the 67th venice international film festival. Find out where meeks cutoff is streaming, if meeks cutoff is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Yle arena now has a movie to watch kelly reichardts.
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