This is not your father's Western. One of the things I like about the poster for Kelly Reichardt’s new film, Meek’s Cutoff, is that it isn't quite what you'd expect and it lets you know that the film is going to be similarly unique. It took me a while to come around to it. Though I liked the illustration—and I always feel that there isn't enough illustration in contemporary movie posters—I wasn't immediately sold on the typography: I think I wanted something more traditionally Western perhaps, something with a weathered woodcut feel, something more obvious. The "Cutoff" and much of the other type looked right, but that sans serif "Meek's" bothered me. The UK version of the poster is nicely done (weathered woodcut type and all), and might sell more tickets, but it is also much more conventional. It doesn't tell you that Meek's Cutoff is...
- 4/8/2011
- MUBI
No one harbors any illusions that Kelly Reichardt's minimalist western Meek's Cutoff will be the next True Grit. And while Michelle Williams is by far the biggest name in a strong ensemble--Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Will Patton, Shirley Henderson and Zoe Kazan--she's hardly doing a showy star turn. But I admire this rigorous, dusty, austere road movie about pioneers who are lost and thirsty on their long trek west. If anything the movie reminds me of Gus Van Sant's under-appreciated desert epic Gerry. The new poster is designed by Marlene McCarty. Here's my Venice Fest review: Another strong woman emerges from the background in Kelly Reichardt’s frontier saga Meek’s Cutoff. A three-wagon train heading for Oregon takes a side route and winds up lost, under ...
- 2/16/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Filed under: Cinematical
Cinematical is happy to premiere the first poster for Kelly Reichardt's indie western, 'Meek's Cutoff,' and we definitely don't want to mess with the gun-toting woman in it. Michelle Williams, who first worked with the filmmaker in 'Wendy and Lucy,' leads the likes of Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano and rising star Zoe Kazan in a flick that's been grabbing buzz as it makes its way through festivals across the globe.
Based on a true story, 'Meek's Cutoff' is a period western set in 1845 where a braggart, Stephen Meek (Greenwood), meets his match in a courageous woman (Williams) after he is hired by three families to lead them through Oregon's Cascade Mountains so that they may start new lives on the other side. As their water dwindles and they disagree over the treatment of a captured Native American, the group questions...
Cinematical is happy to premiere the first poster for Kelly Reichardt's indie western, 'Meek's Cutoff,' and we definitely don't want to mess with the gun-toting woman in it. Michelle Williams, who first worked with the filmmaker in 'Wendy and Lucy,' leads the likes of Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano and rising star Zoe Kazan in a flick that's been grabbing buzz as it makes its way through festivals across the globe.
Based on a true story, 'Meek's Cutoff' is a period western set in 1845 where a braggart, Stephen Meek (Greenwood), meets his match in a courageous woman (Williams) after he is hired by three families to lead them through Oregon's Cascade Mountains so that they may start new lives on the other side. As their water dwindles and they disagree over the treatment of a captured Native American, the group questions...
- 2/15/2011
- by Gabrielle Dunn
- Moviefone
Filed under: Cinematical
Cinematical is happy to premiere the first poster for Kelly Reichardt's indie western, 'Meek's Cutoff,' and we definitely don't want to mess with the gun-toting woman in it. Michelle Williams, who first worked with the filmmaker in 'Wendy and Lucy,' leads the likes of Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano and rising star Zoe Kazan in a flick that's been grabbing buzz as it makes its way through festivals across the globe.
Based on a true story, 'Meek's Cutoff' is a period western set in 1845 where a braggart, Stephen Meek (Greenwood), meets his match in a courageous woman (Williams) after he is hired by three families to lead them through Oregon's Cascade Mountains so that they may start new lives on the other side. As their water dwindles and they disagree over the treatment of a captured Native American, the group questions...
Cinematical is happy to premiere the first poster for Kelly Reichardt's indie western, 'Meek's Cutoff,' and we definitely don't want to mess with the gun-toting woman in it. Michelle Williams, who first worked with the filmmaker in 'Wendy and Lucy,' leads the likes of Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano and rising star Zoe Kazan in a flick that's been grabbing buzz as it makes its way through festivals across the globe.
Based on a true story, 'Meek's Cutoff' is a period western set in 1845 where a braggart, Stephen Meek (Greenwood), meets his match in a courageous woman (Williams) after he is hired by three families to lead them through Oregon's Cascade Mountains so that they may start new lives on the other side. As their water dwindles and they disagree over the treatment of a captured Native American, the group questions...
- 2/15/2011
- by Gabrielle Dunn
- Cinematical
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