#First Cow

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Large bodies of water in First Cow (2019)

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Kelly Reichardt - First Cow (2019)

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"First Cow" (2019) - Kelly Reichardt

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First Cow (2019) dir. Kelly Reichardt

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WATCHLIST 2023: First Cow

[eiraisnthere]

is this anything?

[bornforastorm]

Do you have any fave movies that befit autumn? (asking because I'm obsessed with the winter/holiday recommendations you gave last year)

I'm so glad you liked the winter reccs!

Autumn is a tough one for movies, much tougher than winter, but I put some thought into it 🙏 To me, autumn is about coziness, warm tones, the end of things. I have spent Thanksgiving alone for most of the past decade-- I make turkey bacon and watch mumblecore movies by myself all day (Frances Ha always, a Whit Stilman often), so loneliness comes into my feeling for the season too... Comfortable, but a little alone. Therefore, a lot of these movies are somber, elegiac. But hopeful and warm, too.

So, 10 movies that feel like autumn to me, in chronological order:

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989): obvious, perhaps, but an autumnal movie of all time. The sweaters, the scene where they walk through central park in the fall, the passing of time... some people say this is a New Year's movie because it ends on New Year's Eve, but I say the pinnacle is the scene at the temple of Dendur in the Met, which is AUTUMN!!

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984): maybe it's because I just watched it, but it feels like autumn to me! The jumpsuits, the halloween (ghosts) of it all, the warmth of the filmstock and the mess of the firehouse, the sportcoats and sweaters.

FLATLINERS (1990): a movie I'm deeply biased towards, but!! it's literally a Halloween movie, there's a cool wind blowing through the whole picture, there are ghosts and sins and dead leaves and then! the promise of a future, of more life.

NOTTING HILL (1999): rom com + beautiful people + london + books. I actually cannot remember what time of year this movie takes place, but it feels like september to me.

ALL THE REAL GIRLS (2003): sometimes you walk home from a date and the air is crisp and cool and cutting through your hair and the whole world feels full of possibility. That's how this movie feels to me.

FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009): It would be easy to put any number of Wes Anderson movies onto an autumn list, but this is the most autumn of all. Corduroy and yellow leaves, curling up in a nest for the chilly season, finding that there's a place for you in the world, even if you're little (and weird)

FRANCES HA (2012): Not technically autumnal but it is to me. It's the bittersweetness of growing up and growing apart, the black and white cinematography, the part where she goes to Paris-- and I watch it every year on Thanksgiving, so I have a bias. It feels like fall to me. It feels like a turning season.

JACKIE (2016): set in November (so explicitly autumn), chilly, sad. feels right on a cool, rainy day to sit in the hope we used to have, the possibilities that felt ahead of us, the dream, the fairy tale

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN (2018): wind through wheat fields, old Robert Redford being charming, the end of a career and a life, but still there's love and life and joy to be had

FIRST COW (2019): warm, loving, baked goods, intimacy, a little house, sweeping the front stoop, the countryside, the forest

I know these are all quite modern (for some reason older movies tend to lean summer or winter for me... hmmm....), but I hope these are slightly interesting picks! Enjoy!!

What are your autumn movies??

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First Cow (2020) ------------------- dir. Kelly Reichardt cin. Christopher Blauvelt cs. USA

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First Cow (2019, Kelly Reichardt, USA)

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first cow screenplay making me insane

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cookie & king-lu !

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Cookie's fear response: FREEZE

King-Lu's fear response: FRAUD

[incrediblemelk]

This morning I was thinking about First Cow and thinking, "it's basically Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' isn't it?" Anyway now I can't get this review out of my head

You got a first cow

I want a ticket to anywhere

Maybe we make a deal

Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better

Starting from zero got nothing to lose

Maybe we'll make something

Oily cakes, these treats are starting to move

I remember we were milking, milking your cow

Cream so fat I felt like I was drunk

Clafoutis lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder and

I had a feeling that I belonged

I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone