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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
A Gen-X Portland guy gets a call from his pseudo-drifter buddy suggesting a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip to a hot spring. They hit the road and, after some navigational difficulties, have a soak. * * * Here's a representative scattering of what major critics had to say about Old Joy : "Subdued, artistic, with beautifully nuanced performances" "A minimalist film, but illuminating, bittersweet, gentle...
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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Oscilloscope, the fledgling distribution label spearheaded by the Beastie Boy formerly known as MCA, has picked up Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy , which premiered at Cannes to raves from some but measured praise from me. It’ll open at Film Forum on December 10. If his boys don’t try to push Michelle Williams for an Oscar nod the same year her baby daddy has a posthumous nomination all but locked...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Film News: Michelle Williams stars in drama -- Oscilloscope Pictures has acquired the domestic rights to Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy," her follow-up to "Old Joy."
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Film Reviews: "Old Joy" helmer Kelly Reichardt plays to her strengths in "Wendy and Lucy," a modest yet deeply felt road movie about an idealistic young drifter.
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Filed under: Independent , Cannes , Theatrical Reviews , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie Director Kelly Reichardt's much-anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2006 fest circuit hit, Old Joy , continues to show Reichardt's remarkable gift for classically simple, deeply engaging storytelling. Wendy and Lucy is the story of Wendy (Michelle Williams), a down-on-her-luck girl who's hoping...
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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Who would have thought, in 2006, when Old Joy spent a year slowly gathering critical steam after having been all but ignored at Sundance, that Kelly Reichardt's next film would occasion an item in PEOPLE Magazine? “Michelle Williams Dazzles at Cannes Film Festival,” goes the headline of the story by Brenda Rodriguez. Last night's Wendy & Lucy red carpet was the first that the actress walked since...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Filed under: Cannes , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie I'll have a full review up of Kelly Reichardt's new film, Wendy and Lucy , up later, but a quick note on tonight's screening of the film. Reichardt made 2006's critically acclaimed Old Joy , and Wendy and Lucy was one of the films I was most looking forward to checking out here at Cannes. The big movies are great, but the joy of seeing a smaller...
