On today’s episode, we look back on the career of one of our favourite filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt, and ask why it’s taken until her 8th feature, Showing Up, for her to get a slot in the Cannes Competition.
Kelly Reichardt - Podcast Episodes
Listen to podcast episodes on most of Kelly Reichardt's films. Seventh Row published a book in 2020 on Reichardt's work (up to and including First Cow), Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American Dreams featuring essays on the films and interviews with Reichardt and her whole team of collaborators on First Cow and beyond. We draw on our research and knowledge from writing this book in our podcasts.
We've covered Old Joy and Night Moves, First Cow and Wendy and Lucy, and how Meek's Cutoff subverts the western. We've also looked back at Reichardt's career and her relationship with Cannes in the Women at Cannes season. Finally, you can listen to an episode of the podcast on the ebook Roads to Nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American Dreams here.
To go even deeper on Reichardt's work, get the ebook Roads to nowhere here.
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Seventh Row celebrates Kelly Reichardt on The Film Stage Show
Alex Heeney and Orla Smith, the co-editors of our latest ebook, Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt’s broken American Dreams, both guested on The Film Stage Show to discuss Reichardt’s Certain Women and First Cow.
Ep. 52: First Cow and Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt’s newest film First Cow is her second feature, after Wendy and Lucy, to explore the effects of capitalism through character’s relationship with an animal. In this episode, we discuss the connections between the two films (and animals).
Ep. 47: Roads to Nowhere
This episode previews the exciting contents of our new ebook, Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt’s broken American dreams. Associate Editor Brett Pardy interviews Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith about the process of creating the book and explore the book section by section.
Ep. 37: Meek’s Cutoff and subverting the western
Kelly Reichardt has directed two films set in the 19th century American West, Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and First Cow (2019). To explore how she differs from the traditional Western genre, we compare her films with Oregon-set Bend of the River (1952) and cow film Red River (1948).
Ep. 25: Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Night Moves
Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Associate Editor Brett Pardy discuss site favourite Kelly Reichardt’s two (pre-First Cow) films about men