I was working on a film with another writer friend that didn’t happen. Oscars Predictions: Best Film Editing – Can Tariq Anwar Finally Get His Due? [9] The film won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and Sarasota Film Festival. Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Goodfellas, Kelly Reichardt, Oliver Stone, Cannon Films, and More, Oscars Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay – Battle of the Plays Continue. But for some reason it really resonated and I have returned to it so often. [20], Reichardt's films all contain feminist ideas in both style and content, rejecting mainstream commercial film making methods and focusing on issues of gender (most of her films have female characters as the lead), but she herself rejects the label of a feminist filmmaker. Ultimately, there is ambition in the Apu Trilogy – he’s leaving his village and he marries into a different class. Being a director working in indie cinema, her films have not been huge hits at the box office, with Certain Women being the most successful at $1.1 million. It would just make them feel lopsided, because they’re all so short, they cover so little time. She’s so inspiring. [19], Reichardt's films have often been called minimalist and realist, with film critic A. O. Scott describing Wendy and Lucy as part of a new American Independent cinema he termed "Neo-Neo Realism", primarily due to its thematic and aesthetic similarity to the classic Italian neorealist films like Rome Open City and Paisan. She had an interest in photography from a very young age. I return to the Apu Trilogy constantly. [14] The film premiered January 24, 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival. Reichardt then had trouble making another feature film, saying "I had 10 years from the mid-1990s when I couldn’t get a movie made. Neil Kopp won the Producer's Award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Old Joy and Paranoid Park. In an interview, she discusses the parallels of Meek’s Cutoff to modern times, saying "Here was the story of this braggart leading a bunch of people into the desert without a plan and becoming completely reliant on the locals who are socially different from him and who he is suspicious of. [7], Most of her films are regarded by critics to be part of the minimalist movement in films.[7]. Suddenly First Cow did come together, and they were both in the same period, and they both were sort of films of peasants in their little hutches. Chucky Vs. Leprechaun: Who Is the Ultimate Tiny Terror? Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida, to a family of police officers. All rights reserved. 1 of 6. Reichardt was born in 1964 and raised in Miami, Florida. And they’re all craftspeople in Ugetsu, and in First Cow Cookie is a cook and they’re constantly making things, and King Lu is sewing his slippers – it’s a life of just endless making of things because it’s how you’re surviving. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images). [15], In October 2016, Reichardt revealed that for her next film she will be collaborating with author Patrick DeWitt in an adaptation of his novel Undermajordomo Minor, which could possibly be shot outside of the U.S.[16][17] In October 2018, it was announced Reichardt had put Undermajordomo Minor on hold and would instead reunite with Raymond to direct First Cow, an adaptation of his novel The Half-Life. Night Moves Meek's Cutoff. Reichardt won the top award at the 2016 London Film Festival for Certain Women. [5], Her debut film River of Grass was released in 1994. Eric Kohn (from Indiewire) supports this sentiment in his description of her films as "a mesmerising statement on the solitude of everyday life for working-class people who want something better. She went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Xan Brooks (from The Guardian) uses the examples of "wonky Kurt, left wandering city streets at the end of Old Joy, hapless Wendy, still looking for Alaska, or Meek’s Cutoff’s lost pioneers, forever strung between triumph and disaster. If you feel like heading out, check out other movies in theaters. Kelly Reichardt (/ˈraɪkɑːrt/; born March 3, 1964)[1] is an American screenwriter and film director. I find Satyajit Ray’s filmmaking so lyrical and there’s a real economy to the way he shoots the film. In addition to her feminist themes, Reichardt rejects mainstream methods through the avant-garde content in her films. Kelly Reichardt, Director: Wendy and Lucy. It competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010.[10]. All the hay, the thatch roofs, the wooden floors, all those things – the chores, the chores, the chores. They’re trapped between a mythology of greatness and the personal limitations that govern their drab realities. In 2013, her film Night Moves debuted in competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. Few filmmakers have a stamp as distinct as Kelly Reichardt‘s. It was nominated for Best Film and Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards. Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida, to a family of police officers. First Cow is available to rent or buy digitally from July 10, 2020. That goes against everything that I just worked for, so I have no interest in summing it all up. In the case of Ugetsu, I found that character relatable as far as King Lu [in First Cow] goes – he really wants to get a toe hold in the next level, and he’s very seduced by getting there; he just has kind of a narrow vision of like, “I’ve got to get to this place.” He also knows that he has to find a backdoor into it. By attending to atmosphere and attitude as much as plot, Reichardt has quietly become one of the country’s best chroniclers of the American experience". Even in her films that have male characters as protagonists, she still addresses gender issues. She then directed Meek's Cutoff, a Western starring Michelle Williams. It was named as one of the best films of 1995 by the Boston Globe, Film Comment, and The Village Voice. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards,[6] as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. We took all of the movies directed by Kelly Reichardt and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. Kelly Reichardt is the director of seven feature films: River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), and First Cow (2019).Her work was the subject of a retrospective that took place at … I mean the thing with Ugetsu, and the whole Apu Trilogy [discussed next], that I was really looking at when I was making First Cow, was that they are super low-to-the-ground films. Next, she made two short films, Then a Year, made in 2001, and Travis, which deals with the Iraq War, in 2004. It had a lot to do with being a woman. [24], Her films often also contain references to modern times and political events.

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