Film Series
Kelly Reichardt Selects: First Cow in Context
To mark the release of Kelly Reichardt’s (Meek’s Cutoff, Certain Women) perceptive and tender new film, BAM is pleased to present a series of thematically and stylistically diverse films, all handpicked by Reichardt herself, that served as her inspiration in creating First Cow. From sensual, earthy portraits of peasant life to empathetic studies of eccentric outsiders to gripping heist thrillers, this program offers multiple windows into a rich new work by this modern master.
Award-winning filmmaker Kelly Reichardt is a S. William Senfeld Artist-in-Residence at Bard College. Her feature films include Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), and Certain Women (2016). She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and a Renew Media Fellowship, and her films have screened at the Whitney Biennial, the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard, the Venice International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Agnès Varda’s idiosyncratic meditation on the meaning of value in a consumerist world.
Kenji Mizoguchi’s ravishing blend of social realism and the supernatural.
Ermanno Olmi’s sublimely lyrical, empathetic portrait of everyday struggle and endurance.
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s startlingly modernist, Kafkaesque saga of sex and sand.
Satyajit Ray’s landmark debut is a breathtakingly lyrical evocation of childhood wonder.
A brilliantly subversive, bitingly funny satire of the white ethnographic gaze.
Alice Rohrwacher’s luminous magical realist fable of class and capitalist exploitation.
An ice cool Alain Delon stars in Jean-Pierre Melville’s minimalist heist masterpiece.