BARDIANS ON SCREEN
First Cow, photo by Allyson Riggs, courtesy of A24
The best movie of 2020, according to Time magazine, the Associated Press, and the New York Film Critics Circle (and no small number of Bardians), is S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow. This extraordinary and deeply layered work of art—it’s a buddy film/critique of capitalism/Western/culinary appreciation/portrait of class struggle/story of the American dream/love letter to nature—appears on more than 200 top-10 lists. In February, Reichardt received Rotterdam International Film Festival’s Robby Müller award, which honors a director of photography, filmmaker, or visual artist who “has created an authentic, credible, and emotionally striking visual language.” This summer, she began filming Showing Up, a portrait of an artist whose chaotic life, as she prepares for a career-changing show, becomes the inspiration for her art.
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ON AND OFF CAMPUS
