{"id":160568,"date":"2021-01-22T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-gentle-editing-of-first-cow\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:16:00","slug":"the-gentle-editing-of-first-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-gentle-editing-of-first-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Gentle Editing of &#8216;First Cow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d560f299d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d560f299d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-gentle-editing-of-first-cow\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-gentle-editing-of-first-cow\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Gentle Editing of &#8216;First Cow&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-517f905a-d4aa-4ccc-bc15-dbaed5d6c7ad\"><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay about the gentle editing of Kelly Reichardt<\/em>\u2018s <em>First Cow.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" id=\"block-9dd37ce8-fe90-4a64-b5c6-d5489b56104b\"\/>When I hear the phrase \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> by women are so much\u2026<em>softer<\/em>,\u201d something inside me breaks. My mind starts to race with any number of unabashedly brutal female-directed films: Claire Denis\u2019 <em>Trouble Every Day<\/em>, Melina Matsoukas\u2019 <em>Queen &amp; Slim<\/em>, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre\u2019s <em>The<\/em> <em>Mustang\u2026<\/em>the list goes on and on. The implication that softness is an inalienably (and unavoidably) feminine lens is troublesome. Least of all because it minimizes (or takes for granted) when female directors <em>do<\/em> actively deploy a gentle touch with purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Few directors (female or otherwise) intentionally wield softness quite like <strong>Kelly Reichardt.<\/strong> And her latest film, <em><strong>First Cow<\/strong><\/em>, is a sublimely soothing example of her ability to harness compassion for narrative impact. The film is a meditative neo-Western set in the Pacific Northwest frontier. It tells of two friends trying to \u201cmake it\u201d in America: Otis \u201cCookie\u201d Figowitz (<strong>John Magaro<\/strong>), an unassuming chef, and King-Lu (<strong>Orion Lee<\/strong>), an aspiring farmer on the run for murder.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>William Tyler<\/strong>\u2018s folksy score to Magaro\u2019s absorbingly quiet lead performance, every ounce of <em>First Cow <\/em>works towards its gentle gait. And as the video essay below explains, that same temperance is enacted in the edit, which was conducted by Reichardt herself. The essay unpacks what she accomplishes by allowing shots to linger and by frequently focusing our attention on background characters and the periphery. Ultimately, the result is a Western steeped in compassion and context rarely afforded to the genre.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-d43cf41b-9c21-4c1c-a459-1de27d5765c4\">Watch \u201c<strong>The Gentle Brilliance of First Cow\u2019s Editing<\/strong>\u201c:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Gentle Brilliance of First Cow&#039;s Editing\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhXti0DeEr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"block-76de6f88-1aeb-42e5-8d0d-63b6b34c391c\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-19294f9d-99fc-4cee-8ca7-135f7eaf7b45\">This video essay was created by Virginia-based filmmaker and video editor\u00a0<strong>Thomas Flight<\/strong>. He runs a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> channel under the same name. You can follow Thomas Flight and check out his back catalog of video essays on YouTube\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/thecreativesidetv\/videos\">here<\/a>. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasflight\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"block-2e33b616-0a4b-44a5-a355-1780a35a597e\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay about the gentle editing of Kelly Reichardt\u2018s First Cow. When I hear the phrase \u201cmovies by women are so much\u2026softer,\u201d something inside me breaks. 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