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The skillfully understated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins up again with screenwriter Jon Raymond to give us Meek’s Cutoff — a portrait of the Oregon Trail as both a place and an idea, back when the west was an uncharted strange land off in the distance, waiting to be found.
...moreManohla Dargis and A.O. Scott evaluate what is boring and why, in the context of film.
They discuss the films that are deemed boring because they don’t distract enough from the passing of time and the ones that incite a level of thinking too deep to be considered exciting or entertaining.
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Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set and filmed in his home state of Oregon.