The feature debut of Gus Van Sant is an intimate black and white tale of l’amour fou steeped in the culture of Portland, Oregon’s (now long gone) skid row.
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Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Night Moves’ on Amazon Prime and free on Kanopy
Night Moves (2013), the fourth film that New York-based director Kelly Reichardt made in Oregon with screenwriter Jon Raymond, was her most commercial project to that time, though you won’t mistake this drama of eco-terrorists who blow a dam on a southern Oregon river for a Hollywood thriller. Reichardt and longtime screenwriting partner Jon Raymond […]
‘Meek’s Cutoff’ – Lost on the Oregon Trail on Amazon Prime
Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) opens without preamble. We are given a place and a year—”Oregon, 1845,” stitched into a piece of homespun embroidery—and then dropped in the high desert to observe three frontier families ford a river. They wordlessly, almost morosely, march across, then take the opportunity to fill canteens, wash and check the […]