First Cow film - Excerpts from Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American Dreams

Here, you will find excerpts of our interviews with the filmmaking team behind Kelly Reichardt's 2019 feature First Cow. The full interviews are available in the ebook Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American Dreams. You can purchase the book here.

Roads to nowhere is the first non-academic book to examine Reichardt's entire filmmaking career up to and including First Cow. There are essays on all of her films, career interviews with Reichardt and her long-time cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, and in-depth interviews with the team behind First Cow.

On the site, our First Cow interview excerpts include interviews with actors John Magaro, Orion Lee, and Lily Gladstone. You will also find excerpts from our interviews with sound designer Leslie Shatz, composer William Tyler, screenwriter Jon Raymond, costume designer April Napier, and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt. Inside the book, you will find additional interviews about First Cow with director-editor Kelly Reichardt, assistant editor Ben Mercer, and production designer Anthony Gasparro.

To read a couple of full chapters from Roads to nowhere, download a FREE excerpt from the book here.