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First Cow • This miniature epic set in the backwoods of 1820s Oregon is both a thrilling extension – and perfect summation – of Kelly Reichardt’s cinematic project to date.

Horizon’s West • Kelly Reichardt is a maker of westerns. Here she discusses her new film First Cow, which looks at a pioneer community in 1820s Oregon, and how she filters contemporary discourse and a range of creative influences through this most American of genres.

Dear Jon • Author Jon Raymond lays out the decade-spanning creative partnership between him and his idol-turned-friend, Kelly Reichardt.

Will Power • The American singer-songwriter and sometime actor on Old Joy, being buddies with Harmony Korine, and the time he shot a Kanye video on Zach Galifianakis’ farm.

Chirp Thrills • A beginner’s flight through avian sound design.

The Sky Is Not the Limit • A brilliant new book unlocks the beauty and excitement of a 2004 film which simply asks us to look at the sky.

The New Hollywood Bake-Off

1. BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)

2. THE SWIMMER (1968)

3. HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)

4. THE GODFATHER (1972)

5. DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)

6. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)

7. ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)

Threads #17 The Leather Boot • A column about clothes and movies

Censor

Prano Bailey-Bond • The director of brilliant new psychological horror Censor talks Video Nasties, fake blood and her mortal fear of Simon Bates.

Video Nasties TOP 10

Earwig and the Witch

Nashville (1975)

In the Earth

It Must Be Heaven

Ousmane Sembène • A new restoration of his long out-of-print 1968 film Mandabi offers cause to celebrate the late Senegalese maverick.

Cowboys

Some Kind of Heaven

Limbo

Amir El-Masry • The star of Ben Sharrock’s Limbo reveals his strange route into acting and why laughter is sometimes the best medicine.

Gunda

The Filmmaker’s House

Shiva Baby

Surge

Frankie

After Love

Joanna Scanlan • The great comedy actor explains how she played it straight for Aleem Kahn’s moving debut feature After Love.

Deerskin

The Human Factor

A Space in Time

Jumbo

New Order

My New York Year

Wildfire

Cathy Brady • The death of her lead shortly after wrapping gave the Wildfire director a new perspective on her film.

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Two of Us

Shorta

The Underground Railroad • Barry Jenkins’ TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winner is a nuanced small-screen masterwork.

Radio On

Irreversible

Flowers of Shanghai

Lake Mungo

Time and Tide

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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