1. The Idea of History in Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' - photogénie
Dec 9, 2020 · Stefan Goncharov on how Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' debunks the Western idea of history as a progressive process that ends in utopia.
Stefan Goncharov on how Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' debunks the Western idea of history as a progressive process that ends in utopia.
2. First Cow (2020): Hope for a New Beginning - The Baram House
Mar 6, 2024 · First Cow is a compelling, funny, intense, and deeply moving portrait of alienation, greed, and the power of friendship to provide hope and protection in an ...
“Unlike many heist thrillers that rely on shallow suspense to hook viewers, Reichardt relies solely on the viewer’s connection to these two men to drive the suspense … and it pays off beautifully, as their relationship is perhaps the most endearing on-screen friendship in any film last year.”
3. First Cow director Kelly Reichardt on frontier-era baking and capitalism
Mar 6, 2020 · In First Cow, she tells a story of two men on the Western frontier (played by John Magaro and Orion Lee) who encounter one another by chance ...
This film about the first bovine on the frontier is all about friendship, capitalism, and baking.
4. Film Review: First Cow | The Common
Mar 5, 2020 · First Cow is based on Jonathan Raymond's 2004 novel, The Half-Life. Reichardt has adapted Raymond's fiction before, including two of her most beloved movies.
HANNAH GERSEN
The plain title of Kelly Reichardt’s eighth feature film belies a richly-detailed period piece set in 1820s Oregon Territory. But before immersing you in the past, Reichart opens in the present, with a shot of a large industrial ship making its way down the Willamette River. Along a piece of undeveloped shoreline, a woman and her dog are walking when the dog’s playful digging uncovers a human skull.
5. First Cow (2020) – Apologetics315
Jul 31, 2020 · Based off the book “The Half-Life” by Jonathan Raymond, the story is about an unplanned friendship. We meet Cookie (John Magaro), who has recently joined a ...
What makes a movie “too slow”? If you have not asked yourself this question, you most certainly will while watching First Cow. Indeed, you will be doing so in the first minute or so of the film, wh…
6. Lessons in Tenderness from 'First Cow' - Rough Cut
Aug 18, 2020 · The period in which First Cow occurs seems to be a turning point in animal exploitation. While it's not quite happening on a large, industrial ...
Kelly Reichardt’s quiet film offers examples of kindness amongst the exploited.
7. 'First Cow', First Non-Toxic Masculine Representation - MovieBabble
Mar 10, 2020 · 'First Cow', Kelly Reichardt's new film distributed by A24, paints an intimate portrait of male friendship in 1820s Oregon.
'First Cow', Kelly Reichardt's new film distributed by A24, paints an intimate portrait of male friendship in 1820s Oregon.
8. “First Cow” – Screen Zealots
Missing: true | Show results with:true
I appreciate nuanced filmmaking, but I have a low tolerance for cinema that is overtly tedious.
9. 'First Cow' Director Kelly Reichardt on Quiet Art and the Failure of ... - GQ
Jul 21, 2020 · In early March, Kelly Reichardt's First Cow, a moving portrait of an unlikely friendship between two outsiders in 1820s Oregon ...
“I wanted to be making a film about friendship and not about sparsity.”
10. First Cow (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review
Jul 11, 2020 · All in all, First Cow possesses one of A24's trademarks: unconventional storytelling. Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond deliver a well-written ...
Directed by: Kelly Reichardt Written by: Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt Starring: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner, Alia Shawkat, René Auberjonois Runtime: 122 min Synopsis: A taciturn loner and skilled cook, Cookie ( John Magaro ), has traveled west and joined a
11. First Cow | Rotten Tomatoes
Two travelers, on the run from a band of vengeful hunters in the 1820s Northwest, dream of striking it rich -- but their tenuous plan to make their fortune on ...
Two travelers, on the run from a band of vengeful hunters in the 1820s Northwest, dream of striking it rich -- but their tenuous plan to make their fortune on the frontier comes to rely on the secret use of a landowner's prized dairy cow.
12. 'First Cow' Gently Wrestles with Oregon's History | Portland Monthly
Missing: story | Show results with:story
The new film from Kelly Reichardt opens March 6.
13. 'First Cow' Is A Richly Absorbing Tale Of Friendship, Crime And Capitalism
Mar 5, 2020 · "First Cow" is a buddy comedy and an engrossing historical fiction, but I like to think of it as an exquisite love story from one of our ...
This captivating underdog film centers on two strangers who meet in the Oregon Territory circa 1820 and start their own baking business — which requires stealing milk from the territory's first cow.
14. 'First Cow' Is the Year's Must-See Indie Film - The Atlantic
Mar 10, 2020 · First Cow—co-written by Reichardt and Jon Raymond, and loosely adapted from Raymond's novel The Half-Life—has a touch of the caper genre and a ...
“First Cow,” a quiet story of friendship on the American frontier, is one of the best movies of the year so far.
15. Review: First Cow - In Their Own League
Mar 9, 2020 · Writer/director Kelly Reichardt has gained quite some notoriety over her career, so much so that Bong Joon-Ho even denotes her as one of his ...
Writer/director Kelly Reichardt has gained quite some notoriety over her career, so much so that Bong Joon-Ho even denotes her as one of his heroes, and her latest film, “First Cow”, gives audience…
16. “First Cow,” Reviewed: Kelly Reichardt's Fatalistic Portrait of ...
Mar 9, 2020 · Richard Brody reviews the movie “First Cow,” directed by Kelly Reichardt and adapted from Jonathan Raymond's novel “The Half-Life.”
The film is divided against itself, and its proportions and contours give rise to a familiar, altogether too common, failing of movies of overt political import: impersonality.
17. Kelly Reichardt's Anti-Capitalist Vision of Frontier America | The Nation
Mar 18, 2020 · Drawn from Jonathan Raymond's sprawling debut novel, The Half-Life, First Cow, takes place in the borderlands of early capitalist America.
Her latest film, First Cow, challenges the myths of Americana by telling the stories of peripheral, ordinary figures.
18. First Cow Movie Review — .
Aug 28, 2020 · The films are about the American dream on the western frontier in the early 1800s (Cow) and the early 1900s (Blood). There Will Be Blood is ...
Besides the quiet drama of human connection, First Cow also emphasizes the healing and comforting power of good food. Reichardt focuses our attention on the process of making food by spending a good deal of time showing the gathering, preparing, baking, and eating of it.
19. First Cow - A24
A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds true connection ...
Kelly Reichardt once again trains her perceptive and patient eye on the Pacific Northwest, this time evoking an authentically hardscrabble early nineteenth century way of life. A taciturn…
20. Meet the Breakout Star of 'First Cow', Eve the Cow - GQ
Jul 10, 2020 · In First Cow, director Kelly Reichardt's latest film, a reserved loner cook named Cookie (John Magaro) and an enterprising Chinese immigrant ...
“If we separated her, she would moo and look out the window and try and get people to come see her.”
21. First Cow movie review & film summary (2020) | Roger Ebert
Mar 6, 2020 · And that's when Reichardt begins to make “First Cow” the most tranquil and soft-spoken heist movie in the history of the genre. (It's also where ...
By the time the film arrives at its ending—either open-ended or quietly but ruthlessly definitive, depending on your interpretation—she has trained us to see details as gateways to stories, connection as seed for friendship.
22. What Is First Cow Movie About? Kelly Reichardt Film
Missing: true | Show results with:true
World, meet Eve. She's a cow.
23. 'First Cow' is a Quiet Delight - Medium
Dec 27, 2020 · First Cow follows the story of 'Cookie,' a talented cook, and King-Lu, an entrepreneurial Chinese immigrant, who form an unlikely friendship and business in ...
It beautifully cuts through the noise of our modern lives.
