Kelly Reichardt interview: On dismantling heist cinema in ‘The Mastermind’ and the uncertainties of indie filmmaking

With ‘The Mastermind’, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt turns the heist movie inside out, reflecting on male entitlement, failed plans, and what it takes to keep making independent films without gua ...

Interview | Kelly Reichardt on extreme reactions to The Mastermind, and why she always returns to Satyajit Ray

Acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt talks about the process of writing The Mastermind and also reveals that she is a big ...
IndieWire

Getting Out of Oregon Gave Kelly Reichardt the Best Filmmaking Experience of Her Life

The "Mastermind" auteur tells IndieWire about Josh O'Connor's "timeless face" and why living in stressful times has not dulled her enthusiasm for filmmaking. Loosely inspired by a 1970 news story in ...
Press-Telegram

In ‘The Mastermind,’ Kelly Reichardt frames Josh O’Connor as a ’70s antihero

“The Mastermind” is anything but. The titular character of director Kelly Reichardt’s film, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), is bored or repelled by the life he’s expected to lead, so he steals art instead.
Filmmaker

Making The Mastermind: A Conversation with Kelly Reichardt Producers Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani

I’ve been working on film sets in New York, and recently Los Angeles, over the past decade, but my personal goal, shared with many friends and colleagues, is to write, direct and produce independent ...
The Arts Desk

The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of Americana from Kelly Reichardt

The setting is leafy Framingham, Massachusetts; the date some time at the start of the 1970s. But it’s a film about the American Sixties as much as anything, a turbulent era that has left a legacy of ...