Local flicks, top picks

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

By PJH Staff

Jackson Hole, Wyo. – With the 2008 Jackson Hole Film Festival just around the corner, the staff at the Planet thought it a perfect time to give our readers a sneak preview on some of the films screening in Jackson this year.

No Country for Old Men
When police investigate the grisly murder of a mountain biker in Game Creek, investigation leads them to the doorstep of a local horseman with a lousy haircut and a score to settle. Three murders later - all bikers and dog-owning hikers - authorities fear the worst as panic spreads throughout the stump-jumping community. Javier DeBoerdem plays the role of psychotic killer with a score to settle.

There Will Be Blood
Critics are already raving about the performance turned in by Rezer Edgebrush-Reinhurt, who brilliantly portrays a Jackson Hole real estate tycoon who slowly loses his mind with each massive development.

After transforming Teton Village into a city with a population larger than Jackson, the main character sets his sights on the Snake River Spitting Club, where he slaughters bald eagles and stiffs his subcontractors while building a golf course that sucks the Snake River dry south of Astoria Springs. His next project meets with stiff resistance as disgruntled townsfolk rally against his proposed Teton Shadows Ranch by signing a petition and writing endless letters to the editor. Reinhurt responds by writing a little himself - a check to each county commissioner.

3:10 to Yuma
With blue collar renters all but priced out of tony Jackson, yet another bedroom community is created: Yuma, Wyo. The new municipality crops up northeast of Jackson as the affordable housing requirement stapled to Rezer Edgebrush-Reinhurt’s latest building project, “Grow Vont.” Formerly known as the Gros Ventre, the area from Lower Slide Lake to Duckwing Ranch is clear-cut for six new portfolio assets termed loosely as “homes.”

Beyond the glitzy gated subdivision, in the area decimated by the 2006 Purdy fire, a tiny ramshackle of tents, yurts and bully barns pops up. The village quickly becomes known as Yuma. STOP Bus subsequently announces it will offer service there once daily … at 3:10 a.m. Riders struggle to see through the wrapped windows to catch a glimpse of the empty McMansions.
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