Director Kelly Reichardt on her new film, First Cow

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today's guest is a revered film director: Kelly Reichardt! Kelly's new film, First Cow, is the story of a loner cook who befriends a Chinese immigrant while traveling across 1820's Oregon and the cow whose milk they hatch a plan to steal. Kelly joins us to talk about how a Floridian ended up making films about the Pacific Northwest, why she's not really interested in show business, and how a person goes about casting a cow! All that and more on Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.7	Coming to you from my home office in Los Angeles, California, it's Bullseye.
0:24.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:26.3	Kelly Reichart has been a filmmaker for more than two decades.
0:30.2	When she's not directing and writing movies, she is a teacher at Bard College.
0:35.1	Her films are quiet.
0:36.3	She usually shoots them in Oregon and films on location, typically on a shoot string budget.
0:42.3	In Oz are, if you've seen a movie that she's made, you care really deeply about her work.
0:47.7	She's that kind of director.
0:49.6	Maybe you loved Wendy and Lucy or old Joy or Meeks Cut-Off.
0:53.9	A western told from the perspective of the female settlers on the Oregon Trail.
0:58.7	In it, the actors don't talk much.
1:00.4	The camera just kind of takes in the landscape, which is of course beautiful.
1:05.6	Her work often brings out the human nature of her characters in a surprising and beautiful way.
1:11.1	There's a meditative quality to watching her films.
1:15.0	She's got a new movie.
1:16.5	It's called First Cow.
1:18.6	Like Meeks Cut-Off, it's also set in the American West around the 1820s.
1:24.0	It's a buddy film and a heist film, a beautiful, quiet, buddy heist film.
1:32.5	Also, the heist is stealing milk from a cow, one of the first cows to show up in the
1:40.1	particular region covered by the film.
1:43.8	The payoff to this big heist is maybe they make tastier biscuits with the milk and then
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