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Set among fur-trappers in the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s, Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow captures the origins of modern American entrepreneurial culture. She talks about how seeing, not showing, has been her motto.
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 conve...
River of Grass to First Cow. ON RIVER OF GRASS – «When I look at that film, I think I am very aware of the films I was watching, and my influences are very much on my sleeve as a young filmmaker. It’s lucky that I shot in the neighbourhoods I knew, which now I shoot very far away from, a place I don’t know so I can be in a new place, but I think for that film it was good that I was sticking to something I did know: streets, highways I knew; all the places and interiors were all places I knew because I was still borrowing so heavily and looking at other people’s work, including Jarmu...
'First Cow' Director Kelly Reichardt on 'Daily Process of Making Art' Ann-Marie Corvin, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Accepting the Robby Muller award online this week, ahead of a talk at the International Film Festival Rotterdam to celebrate her work, Kelly Reichardt appeared delighted with its form. In its second year, the award has taken the guise of an enlarged Polaroid print featuring a solitary tree, which was taken by Muller on a winter’s day in Munich during the eighties. More from Variety Both Muller and the award’s recipient have a talent for capturing landscapes and Reichar...
Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui There’s the temptation every year to say, “This was a bad year for movies,” which is rarely ever the case. But 2020 certainly flirted with that idea, with the pandemic pushing many studio films to next year and making all other films nearly impossible to watch without a press badge at a film festival. More than anything, it was a weird year for movies, a year where entertainment became a safe haven from the horrors of reality and where we all flocked to films that either comforted us, or numbed us, or dared us to find the awful par...