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A light fit design with flex grip stands up to LEARN MORE twhateverhe the day brings your way. https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 1/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine mainstream she’s considered. TO TOP She’s justly revered by discerning ¤lm critics and festival programmers, and these days, thanks in part to Michelle Williams’ outstanding work in Wendy & Lucy Instagram and Meek’s Cuto¡, A-list actors are eager to work with her. And yet, as you’ll read below, there’s a disheartening precariousness to her ¤lmmaking career. Will Night Moves change that? It’s another thought- provoking, engaging, and beautifully rendered ¤lm, and features wonderfully true- to-life performances from Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard. Eisenberg plays Josh, the mastermind The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves behind a plot to SHARE TWEbETlow up https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 2/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine a dam in Oregon, with Fanning and Sarsgaard as his TO TOP possibly less committed cohorts. Gorgeous imagery and great acting are not new to Reichardt’s work. This ¤lm, though, also has a Moviemaking suspenseful environmental terrorism storyline that could hook audiences who might not be enamored with DIRECTING stories of moral ambiguity, Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons Director Pi Ware on presented in a Documentary vs. Reality TV deliberately BY PI WARE MAY 14, 2020 paced, meticulous style. It moves and looks like a Kelly Reichardt ¤lm, but it also plays like a thriller, with a sustained sense of ARTICLES - SCREENWRITING foreboding that’s Hollywood Told Me No, So I new to her work. Told Myself Yes — By Deon Taylor Josh Ralske, BY DEON TAYLOR APRIL 24, 2020 MovieMaker Magazine (MM): I’ve been a fan of your work. I saw River of Grass at the Public Theater, when they were still The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves showing movies SHARE TWEtEhT ere. https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 3/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine Kelly Reichardt (KR): Oh my gosh, Comments that was our ¤rst TO TOP ever screening. Linda Nelson on At the Drive-In Loved Drive- In Theaters Before It Was Cool MATT on The Irishman Slang Explained: Your MM: I loved the Guide to the Vig, Candy, Going to School, and way it took these Painting Houses Phil on The Best Online Film Festivals of familiar genre 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway elements and did something totally unique and di¡erent with them, and I see that as a thread throughout your work. KR: Genre gives you a plan, so that’s the easy part of it. It also comes with expectations, like in the case of Night Moves. Whether audiences realize it or not, they know when certain things are MovieMaker RSS supposed to Film Distribution Vet Liz Manashil Explores happen, and when the Future of a Post-Pandemic Film Industry May 29, 2020 that itch doesn’t get scratched, it Everything You Need to Know About HBO Max — Including Why It’s Not Available on can bring the Roku or Amazon Fire TV audience with May 29, 2020 you. Even if it’s MovieNews: We Are One Surprises; the 8 just a matter of Words That Inspired Vast of Night; Shane Carruth’s Mysterious Trailer jerking people May 29, 2020 awake a little bit in a quiet way. It’s not like I start out Powered by ZergNet The 50-Year Road Tripw:i tKhe tlhley iRdeaic ohfardt on NFromight M otheves Web trying to make a SHARE TWEET https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 4/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine genre ¤lm. It’s just, you know, I watch movies, TO TOP too, and there’s a seduction there, but they are so We Now Understand The Worst Movie ¤lled with Why Anna Kendrick Remakes of All Time heightened Refuses to Do Nude Scenes moments, and there’s an unexplored way of working in that framework. These last four ¤lms which I’ve done Why Ruth From Child Stars Who with Jon 'Ozark' Looks Sadly Still Think Raymond, his Familiar They're Famous writing is ¤lled with ambiguity. That’s part of why I’m so drawn to it. It’s pretty misty. I think if you have a really strong Celeb Couples It's Finally Become Whose Age Gaps Are Clear Why Hetty frame, you can Kind of Grossly Disappeared From play around Disturbing 'NCIS' further with ambiguity without it being a mess, without people getting lost. MM: Is it easier to make a ¤lm now, to get a ¤lm made. I know that you can get name actors, and… KR: I made River of Grass in ’93 and The 50-Year Road TripI :m Kaedlel yO Rlde Jicohy ainrdt on Night Moves 2005, so it was SHARE TWEET https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 5/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine really not easy for a long time, and I think some of that TO TOP has to do with me. I really didn’t have the skills. And I’m not saying I do now; I have these producers that have the skills. I had the scrappy, ¤ghting part that you need to get a ¤lm made, but I didn’t have the skills that you also need to win people over. Just the more delicate… MM: …Self- promotion? KR: Not self- promotion, but just not facing the world with your dukes up so much. When I started it really did feel like a boys’ playground you had to bust your way into, and I think some of that has changed. And I teach now [at Bard College; previously at Columbia University and The 50-Year Road TripN:e wKe Ylolyrk Reichardt on Night Moves University], and SHARE TWEET https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 6/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine my livelihood isn’t dependent on getting a ¤lm TO TOP made… Just being able to keep those things separate. Old Joy was an art project that I went out and did with friends for two weeks, and it was gonna be whatever it was gonna be. And they’ve really grown in small ways. That was a six-person crew, and Wendy & Lucy was a 13-person crew, and then Meek’s was more involved, but it was still… They’ve all sort of felt like, “We’re going away, o¡ the grid with this group of people, and we’ll see what happens.” Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy There’s more at stake than there used to be, but The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves we’re really doing SHARE TWEtEhTings in such a https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 7/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine small way, and the fact that actors wanna be TO TOP in the movies helps for sure. It’s probably the main thing. And also just, you know, working with a lot of the same people over and over again, and getting in sync with those people. With Meek’s for sure, when I was in the desert and looking through the camera, those women with those huge bonnets where you can barely see their faces, I thought, “Wow, this is really beautiful. But enjoy it, because you will never be allowed to make another ¤lm.” I really thought I’d never make another ¤lm. I was prepared for that, and it always feels like the whole thing feels like a sinking ship in some way. I’m sure there will The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves come a time SHARE TWEwEThen the faucet is https://www.moviemaker.com/the-50-year-road-trip-kelly-reichardt-on-night-moves/ 8/41 5/30/2020 The 50-Year Road Trip: Kelly Reichardt on Night Moves - MovieMaker Magazine turned o¡ again, so every time you make one, it just TO TOP seems so lucky that you somehow pulled it o¡.