Ep. 241: Kelly Reichardt on Alain Delon, David Lean's Passionate Friends, Recreating Rear Window, and more

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With a retrospective of Kelly Reichardt’s work starting at Metrograph, I had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with Reichardt in one of the Metrograph theaters to talk about... the last things she saw! The director of (most recently) Showing Up discussed a run of Alain Delon movies she saw in the theater—starting with Purple Noon—and also films she uses in her teaching at Bard College, in coursework that involves students re-creating the filmmaking of certain scenes.

“American Landscapes: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt” begins May 11 at Metrograph, starting with her first feature, River of Grass, on through Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves, Certain Women, First Cow, and her most recent, Showing Up, plus two shorts streaming on Metrograph at Home.

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