Miriam Balanescu
, May 7th, 2021 09:01
Kelly Reichardt’s forthcoming First Cow, along with Oscar darlings Nomadland and Minari, bring a fresh, environmentally minded perspective to the age-old western, finds Miriam Balanescu
Several men sit at a bar, in a frontier settlement somewhere in Oregon. The Columbia river gushes nearby. They are talking about a cow, the first to be brought to the settlement via the river. Her mate and calf have not survived the journey. “This ain’t a place for cows,” one man says. “Well, it’s no place for white men either,” another replies. Their conversation feels searingly ironic when reflecting on a country whose cinematic history is dominated by white men, and whose national dish is the hamburger. Yet this is also a reminder that much of America’s multinational colonial history has been erased.
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Helena Zengel and Tom Hanks in News of the World.
For Universal s Tom Hanks starrer, the composer took a less-is-more approach for the post-Civil War drama.
Eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard, whose projects have ranged from
My Best Friend s Wedding to multiple
Batman films and the
Hunger Games series, added a Western to his extensive résumé in 2020. The famed composer took on the score for Paul Greengrass
News of the World, which stars Tom Hanks as a Civil War vet transporting a young girl (Helena Zengel) cross-country to her family. Howard recently chatted with
THR about creating a less-is-more sound, breaking out of his comfort zone and incorporating a Western landscape into his music.
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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is an empty man. A Civil War veteran without a family, he wanders the Western Plains, reading stories from the many newspapers he has in tow, bringing them to audiences hungry for diversion. He ekes out a living on the meager donations he collects, just enough to get him to the next town. He has no true direction, every day much like the last. So, when his path crosses that of a young white girl who s been kidnapped by natives, he s unsure how to proceed. His confusion mounts when he s charged with returning her to her family, a journey through violent, treacherous territory that will test them both while leading them to their true purpose.