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DVD review | Meek’s Cutoff – “A woman’s gotta do…” Michelle Williams & co hit the Oregon trail

Posted on 8 August 2011 by Jason Best

Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan and Shirley Henderson remind us that cowboys didn’t have the Wild West entirely to themselves with Meek’s Cutoff, a rare Western with a female slant. They play a trio of doughty pioneer women whose mettle is … Continue reading →

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“A woman’s gotta do…” Feminist Western Meek’s Cutoff screens in the Birds Eye View Film Festival

Posted on 9 March 2011 by Jason Best

Hailee Steinfeld’s feisty performance in True Grit has just reminded us that the Wild West shouldn’t be seen as an exclusively male preserve. So it’s fitting that the Birds Eye View Film Festival, great champion of women filmmakers, should be … Continue reading →

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – if you could too, what day would you choose to live in?

Posted on 7 November 2009 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings This movie tells the entertaining tale of an unemployed governess who plunges into the dizzying world of 1939 London high society after bluffing her way into a job as social secretary to a giddy American singer and … Continue reading →

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