Movies: Jonathan Raymond

In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues....

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it....

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – t...

The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam....

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions....

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with t...

Tom Chen, an affluent Chinese American, decides to celebrate the anniversary of his divorce with a dinner party. When his intended guests cancel, he impulsively invites the two Mexican day laborers, Javier and Diego, who are working in his yard, to j...

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Behind the scenes of the creation of Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (2019)....

A married mother of two, unexpectedly pregnant with her third child, answers the phone to hear a voice from her distant past, reconnecting with the central, though neglected, emotional anchor in her life. In the span of an 80-minute conversation, the...

A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms....

A chronicle of a day in the life of a Palestinian cab driver in Los Angeles, DRIVING TO ZIGZIGLAND, portrays the social struggle of the Arab immigrant in post-9/11 America. A film audition typecasts Bashar to play an Al Qaeda terrorist role. The util...

Jon Raymond’s 1997 piece Battles on the Astral Plane, a clever mocking of the popular Mortal Kombat video game that shows Raymond’s crafty, self-effacing wit that can still be found in his books and screenplays (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Livabil...

Go behind the scenes of First Cow with writer-director Kelly Reichardt, co-writer Jonathan Raymond, and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt in an exclusive featurette detailing the visual world of 1820s Oregon and the longtime collaboration that bro...