Review: At MUBI Fest, The Mastermind Adds Harmony to the Heist
The Mastermind is an indie flick, a heist movie, a period piece, and a meditation on American life, but what I failed to realize the first time I watched it […]
Reichardt Retrospective at Chicago Int’l Film Fest Highlights the Filmmaker’s Mastery of the Mundane
“This film will really put the hustle in you.” Director Kelly Reichardt said this of her breakout film Old Joy (2006) while introducing its screening at the Gene Siskel Film […]
Review: Kelly Reichardt’s Observational Filmmaking Style in The Mastermind Makes for a New Type of Heist Movie
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s visual style can be described in many ways—quiet, subtle, humanistic, etc.—but I think the best way to sum up her approach to storytelling is observational. Reichardt channels […]
Dispatch: Mid-Week at Chicago Int’l Film Festival Highlighted by Special Guests, Hidden Gems and More
Hitting the mid-week mark, the Chicago International Film Festival boasts special guests and anticipated films on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21 and 22; here are the highlights our film critics […]
Interview: Eva Victor on Making Their Filmmaking Debut with Sorry, Baby, Humor for Healing, and Being a Cat Person
Eva Victor (they/them) has made a career—and a helluva feature film debut with Sorry, Baby—by never doing what’s expected. After working for the feminist satire website Reductress and MTV’s Decoded […]
Interview: Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on Showing Up—the Film, and for the Work of Making, Sharing Art
If the films of Kelly Reichardt have a binding theme, it’s that her works are populated by characters in search of their place in the world, both in a geographical […]
Review: Showing Up Explores the Intersection of Art and Life in Immersive, Often Humorous Ways
In their fourth collaboration, writer/director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams have made their most ambitious work to date. Showing Up is the story of a struggling artist named Lizzy […]
Review: First Cow Explores Male Friendship and American Entrepreneurship
Some are better than others, but I don’t think director Kelly Reichardt has made a bad movie. From her debut with the recently restored and reissued River of Grass, Old […]