20 Facts About Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt is an American film director and screenwriter.

Kelly Reichardt is known for her minimalist films closely associated with slow cinema, many of which deal with working-class characters in small, rural communities.

Since 2019, Kelly Reichardt has returned to directing Oregon-set dramas, with First Cow, and Showing Up.

Kelly Reichardt was born in 1964 and raised in Miami, Florida.

Kelly Reichardt developed a passion for photography when she was young.

Kelly Reichardt's parents were law enforcement officers who separated when she was still a child.

Kelly Reichardt earned her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

In 1999, Kelly Reichardt completed the short film Ode, based on Herman Raucher's novel Ode to Billy Joe.

Kelly Reichardt received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009 and a 2011 United States Artists Fellowship.

In October 2016, Kelly Reichardt revealed that on her next film she would collaborate with author Patrick DeWitt on an adaptation of his novel Undermajordomo Minor, potentially to be shot outside of the US Two years later it was announced that Kelly Reichardt had put Undermajordomo Minor on hold and would instead reunite with Raymond to direct First Cow, an adaptation of his novel The Half-Life.

Kelly Reichardt's films have all received positive reviews from critics, with River of Grass and First Cow particularly reaching near-unanimous acclaim.

Kelly Reichardt's films have not been big box-office successes, with Certain Women the most successful at $1.1 million.

Kelly Reichardt has frequently collaborated with actress Michelle Williams, saying that she enjoys Williams's confidence and inquisitive nature, and that she can never guess what she's going to do.

Kelly Reichardt sees a difference between her work and the minimalist movement as a whole, and has called her films "just glimpses of people passing through".

Kelly Reichardt is interested in characters "who don't have a net, who if you sneezed on them, their world would fall apart".

Kelly Reichardt has confirmed that the character Meek was meant to resemble Bush.

Kelly Reichardt has said that she enjoys films that let the audience find their own way in and come to their own conclusions.

Kelly Reichardt's films contain feminist ideas in both style and content, rejecting mainstream commercial filmmaking methods and focusing on gender, but she rejects the label "feminist filmmaker".

Kelly Reichardt rejects mainstream methods by using small budgets, filming on location, and refusing to romanticize her characters and their struggles.

Kelly Reichardt diverges from the mainstream with her films' avant-garde content.