In this episode, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, including the differences between the film and the short story, how the film effectively establishes character, and how Reichardt and Sillen create disconnect through film grammar. 

See where Old Joy is available to watch.

Supplemental Material:

• The Criterion Collection's Old Joy Blu-ray

• Old Joy - Photographs by Justine Kurland & Fiction by Jonathan Raymond (Book)

• Old Joy: Northwest Passages by Ed Halter

• Kelly Reichardt: ‘My films are about people who don’t have a safety net’ (BFI Interview)

• Yorgos Lanthimos & Kelly Reichardt (Film Independent Interview)

• Kelly Reichardt: A Major Voice of Indie Cinema | The VICE Guide to Film

• Old Joy - Daniel London and Kelly Reichardt Interview

• Patton Oswalt Introduces OLD JOY (The Criterion Channel)

• Ode (1999) (Dir. Kelly Reichardt) (PASSWORD: benjamin)

• Travis (2004) (Dir. Kelly Reichardt)

• It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Book)

Additional Audio Sources:

• Old Joy Trailer

• The Criterion Collection's Old Joy Blu-ray

• Daniel London and Will Oldham Conversation on The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray

• Kelly Reichardt Interview on The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray

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