Kelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature brought the writer-director back to the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics-agent mother.
Beautifully attuned to the in-between moments of everyday life, her films such as OLD JOY, WENDY AND LUCY, and MEEK’S CUTOFF portray the journeys and str...Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 1994 • United States
Kelly Reichardt is the director of seven feature films: I didn’t know anything going into this movie, and I was completely captivated the entire time. www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/370-kelly-reichardt-s-top-10 Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. I first saw I used to use this in a class I taught on sound.
Some story about a housewife who gets sick—can you believe it?” He had no idea what to make of it, but people have really revised their opinions since then.
Beautifully attuned to the in-between moments of everyday life, her films such as OLD JOY, WENDY AND LUCY, and MEEK’S CUTOFF portray the journeys and struggles of outsiders and dreamers with an eloquent minimalism in which stillness speaks volumes.
Over the course of six features, Kelly Reichardt has established herself as one of American cinema’s sharpest observers of place and character. A lmost from the moment it arrived on screens in early 2006, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy was celebrated as a new milestone for American cinema, even an expression of independent filmmaking’s delayed arrival at maturity. Everything about her life and the morality depicted in it is so 1950s, but she’s this outcast, and is not even very likable. The performance by Nadine Nortier is incredible, and Bresson has this haunting way of shooting the back of her head. Can you think of another female role like that? Kelly Reichardt (/ ˈ r aɪ k ɑːr t /; born March 3, 1964) is an American screenwriter and film director. Shot on...Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2006 • United States
This is a film that, if you don’t know anything about it, you certainly won’t know where it’s going. Kelly Reichardt’s sophomore feature is a zen-like study of aging and male friendship, and Criterion’s elegant package celebrates the independent initiative that brought it to the screen.
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from Kelly Reichardt, a microbudget study of character and masculinity that introduced many viewers to one of co...Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2008 • United States This emotionally wrenching and politically trenchant road film cemented Kelly Reichardt’s status as one of the most highly-regarded auteurs of contemporary cinema. Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is driving to Ket...Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2010 • United States I just remember seeing it in New York City at a small screening, and I was in the movie for so long after that—I couldn’t shake it. Those film stocks don’t exist anymore—this is 16 mm at its best, and it looks gorgeous.
There’s this feeling throughout the movie that there were many different ways that it could have been put together.
Reichardt sat down with critic April Wolfe for this conversation, in which she discusses her working relationship with frequent collaborator Michelle Williams, the challenges and rewards of shooting on location, and how her films achieve a delicate balance of the personal and political.Over the course of six features, Kelly Reichardt has established herself as one of American cinema’s sharpest observers of place and character. It’s one of my biggest discoveries on the Criterion Channel, which makes everything so convenient.This is a perfectly structured film.
Who else was doing that at that time? Before I saw it, I had already read Todd’s script, and I did not have any understanding of what it was going to be. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow (2019) . I n the essay accompanying our release of Certain Women (2016), Ella Taylor writes that director Kelly Reichardt’s “specialty is the transformation of landscape—whether cheerless wasteland or broody paradise—into a stage for journeys of the parched soul.” In First Cow, the landscape is the barely settled Oregon Territory of the 1820s. Beautifully attuned to the in-between moments of everyday life, her films such as OLD JOY, WENDY AND LUCY, and MEEK’S CUTOFF portray the journeys and struggles of outsiders and dreamers with an eloquent minimalism in which stillness speaks volumes. Over the course of six features, Kelly Reichardt has established herself as one of American cinema’s sharpest observers of place and character. She doesn’t talk much at all, but because of her gestures—even just the way she makes coffee—the movie never feels stilted.This movie has been a touchstone for me through my entire adult life. Reichardt’s list includes productions such as Black Girl, A Poem Is a Naked Person, A Taste of Honey, Playtime.
Les Blank was shooting with all this natural light, and it makes for such a great portrait of the South at a certain moment in time with a bunch of total weirdos!I never tire of using this film in the classroom, because there’s always more to glean from it, and I say this as someone who has seen it many, many times.
It’s all so cartoony, but you’re worried about this character the whole time. Aside from her performance and her sense of framing, I love the way she plays with genre in unexpected ways in this movie.