Kelly Reichardt
From NYFF, Lee Jutton reviews A Couple and Showing Up, the latest films from Frederick Wiseman and Kelly Reichardt.
Sean Fallon brings us some of the highlights from the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Reichardt once again displays her generous understanding of life on the margins, and the implicit need to create relationships in harsh lands.
The tone of First Cow is warm and fuzzy until the very end that watching it unfolds is like going through a soothing meditation.
While Reichardt seems to be well intentioned here, First Cow falters by being frustratingly empty in both its delivery and narrative focus.
In this week’s Video Dispatches, Shawn Glinis covers the recent home video releases of Secret Ceremony (1968), Old Joy (2006) and Mister America (2019).
In First Cow, a cook and a Chinese immigrant collaborate on a business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.
The Film Inquiry staff reveals their favorite female directors, from Alice Guy-Blaché to Sofia Coppola.
While it would take the serious alienation, River of Grass has all of the seeds that would bloom into one of the 2000s greatest filmmakers.
Settings are often so integral to a film that they can become as important as characters themselves; here are five prominent examples.
With Certain Women, director Kelly Reichardt has created one of the most human cinematic universes in recent memory.
The last weekend of TIFF is always bittersweet. On one hand, you’re so sleep-deprived from all the morning/early afternoon screenings that it’s a relief to have your regular schedule back in order. And yet, on the other, you feel a pang in your gut as you realize that the end is nigh – no more friendly crowds, no more of those endearingly irritating commercials, no more Q&As and no more beautiful venues to ogle over as you wait for the programmer to introduce the film (and TIFF has some cool programmers, too).
With its small scale stated in the title, Certain Women looks like a traditional Kelly Reichardt film. Intimate and low-key, her movies rarely stretch to include more than a handful of characters leading small lives. This minimalist style tests the patience of some viewers, while others find the delicately observed moments riveting.