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FilmPG-132020
First Cow
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
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—the first, and only, in the territory. From TMDB
127 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
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First Cow is a 2020 drama history film, directed by Kelly Reichardt, starring John Magaro, Orion Lee and Toby Jones.
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60 of 127 · most liked firstFirst Cow (2019) is a movie about America's first viral pastry
neutral · AI labelView post →Kelly Reichardt’s *First Cow* is a quietly lovely movie about friendship that also manages to be tough and clear-eyed. And unlike so many films it leaves space for the viewer to fill it in, and different people will do that (including the ending, I suspect) in different ways. Moving. Recommended.
positive · AI labelView post →First Cow. Was getting the best reviews of Reichardt’s career and had the highest per-screen-average of any of her films a week before lockdown. She pulled it hoping to get it back in theaters later but then it quietly went to PVOD that summer. A real loss for a movie like that
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched FIRST COW and I think it might be a perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →FYI. Kelly Reichardt’s superb FIRST COW screens tonight at the @nwfilmforum.bsky.social as part of @seattlecritics.bsky.social 10th anniversary film series. There will be a special intro to the film from star John Magaro. Get your tickets now! nwfilmforum.org/films/sfcs-1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Having a very good movie watching week. Re-watched FIRST COW (one of my favorites) and watched WHAT'S UP, DOC? for the first time (instantly a new favorite). Tomorrow I have plans to see the 4k restoration of BOOGIE NIGHTS at the local indie theatre.
positive · AI labelView post →First Cow, a perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →Kelly Reichardt (with scenes from her film "First Cow") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing TONIGHT at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social: Kelly Reichardt's First Cow, the 2nd film in @seattlecritics.bsky.social's SFCS at 10 series. Feat. a live intro from Steve Reeder and a recorded intro from John Magaro, who also appears in SFCS faves Past Lives and Showing Up. Tix! tinyurl.com/mu3s4krk
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite grim westerns: First Cow Slow West McCabe & Mrs Miller Dead Man Unforgiven Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Heavens Gate Last Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot to post my review of the movie, "First Cow." It's about two guys who team up in the Pacific Northwest back in the trapping days. The viewer watches the mundane aspects of daily life, like stealing milk to make pastries. The film ends abruptly but family friendly. Not satisfying. 🫤 -E
negative · AI labelView post →Putting the + in #ACenturyPlus! Favorite + Best film for 2020-25: 2020: Blow the Man Down + First Cow 2021: Petite Maman + The Power of the Dog 2022: Kimi + Babylon 2023: La Chimera + Past Lives 2024: Rebel Ridge + The Substance 2025: The Ballad of Wallis Island + Sinners What are yours? #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →A fantastic lineup for August! I'm excited about the Araki screenings: Mysterious Skin in 4K and his debut, Three Bewildered People in the Night. @seattlecritics.bsky.social will also be presenting the second film in our SFCS at 10 series: First Cow on Aug 20 with a video message from John Magaro.
neutral · AI labelView post →A film I enjoyed a while ago now. First Cow (2019) 🐄
positive · AI labelView post →Love this movie, second favorite Reichardt behind FIRST COW.
positive · AI labelView post →funny Kelly Reichardt story: I strongly recommended First Cow to my parents, which they watched and liked so much that they decided to pick a Reichardt movie for a big movie night with some friends of the family
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot to post my review of the movie, "First Cow." It's about two guys who team up in the Pacific Northwest back in the trapping days. The viewer watches the mundane aspects of daily life, like stealing milk to make pastries. The film ends abruptly but family friendly. Not satisfying. 🫤 -E
negative · AI labelView post →I just so happen to have an entire playlist on Qobuz (called "I Have No Words") for instrumentals. Easier to listen to when I'm writing and need to focus. Tyler did the soundtrack to First Cow, a splendid and quiet little movie a few years back. #MutualMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHJ...
neutral · AI labelView post →I really love it, and was similarly won over across the course of the film. And coincidentally, I just received a book about the production in today’s mail. Are you a fan of any other particular Reichardt films? I especially love First Cow and Old Joy.
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite film per decade: 00s: The Consequences of Feminism 10s: Shoes 20s: The Cat and the Canary 30s: The Lady Vanishes 40s: Laura 50s: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 60s: Once Upon a Time in the West 70s: Mikey and Nicky 80s: Shag: The Movie 90s: Sneakers 00s: Amélie 10s: The Dressmaker 20s: First Cow
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 10 movies that I saw for the 1st time in 2021 are: Ordet Alien Modern Times Man With A Movie Camera Little Women (2020) West Side Story (2021) Contempt First Cow Take Shelter Luca In roughly that order.
neutral · AI labelView post →River's Edge American Movie Repo Man First Cow The Straight Story Dick Tracy Assault on Precinct 13 Uncut Gems Mikey and Nicky The Long Goodbye Rock and Roll Highschool Inside Man Raising Arizona Bottle Rocket Tank Girl
neutral · AI labelView post →HBD Kelly Reichardt who made my fave film of 2023, Showing Up, and my fave film of 2020, First Cow. I met her briefly in March 2020 and she was so cool and interesting and thoughtful and she signed one of my zines and it remains a highlight of my life!!! #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t believe it took me this long to watch a Kelly Reichardt movie. First Cow is 5 stars from me btw
positive · AI labelView post →Because good work should be recognised, please know that right now World Movies is screening Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom followed by the movie First Cow. It's TV programmer humour.
neutral · AI labelView post →My top ten movies of the 21st century (not in order): Get Out First Cow The Missing Picture Bonjour Tristesse Columbus Nobody Knows Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ida In the Mood for Love Le sommeil d’or (Golden Slumbers, 2011)— NYT had no image for this doc abt Cambodian cinema pre-Khmer Rouge)
neutral · AI labelView post →continuing the Kelly Reichardt film festival me and @ailite.bsky.social are having with First Cow. so beautiful and slow and there is a pretty cow
positive · AI labelView post →Alphabet #filmchallenge - 26 days, a film you’ve seen for each letter. #filmsky F is for First Cow
neutral · AI labelView post →First Cow is the slowest heist movie in cinema, and a story of a great friendship. I love a good slow movie and Kelly Reichardt has made a lot of good ones. 4/4 no notes #filmsky and I've also seen Certain Women and Meek's Cutoff which I also consider 4s.
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite female filmmaker working today: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow Who is a female filmmaker more people should know about: @veradrew22.bsky.social, The People’s Joker Favorite 2024 film directed by women: Angela Patton & Natalie Rae, Daughters
neutral · AI labelView post →And mark those calendars, Cult of Kelly Reichardt fam, for we gather Tuesday September 10th to watch surprisingly sweet milk heist period piece "First Cow" at Cinema 21. www.cinema21.com/movie/first-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Glad to finally see Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, though I can understand why it didn’t get a cinema release here. It has fine performances from Michelle Williams and André (3000) Benjamin, but it’s a minor-key work compared with First Cow with not enough in the way of a story to fully engage.
negative · AI labelView post →New episode! This week we’re looking at Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow with @jjdotbiz.bsky.social researcher for Blank Check with Griffin and David. Is this the ultimate bromance film? Tune in and find out 🎧 spotify.link/47ELq1lerDb
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to watch a movie tomorrow on Xumo TV called "First Cow." 🐄 -E
neutral · AI labelView post →Available 29 June from MUBI: THE MASTERMIND Josh O'Connor stars as an art thief in a heist film written and directed by Kelly Reichardt (First Cow), which took Cannes by storm. Pre-order your 4K, Blu-ray or DVD today limelightcollection.co.uk
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Omaha’ is now in theaters. Check out my exclusive interview with star John Magaro (First Cow, Past Lives.) silverscreenriot.com/john-magaro-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to the cinema for the first time in ages to see The Testament of Ann Lee and I felt so alive!! I missed the cinema so much. Lovely to see something filmed on actual film too. Almost as good as when I saw First Cow after lockdown and cried at the sound design
positive · AI labelView post →I saw a preview of FIRST COW at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center in February 2020 before it disappeared into our new streaming reality. Six years later it will be there again for one night. www.siff.net/programs-and...
neutral · AI labelView post →Make this a roadshow. Kelly Reichardt's marvelous FIRST COW was the last great movie I saw in a theater prior to lockdowns.
positive · AI labelView post →so much talk about TRAIN DREAMS film when FIRST COW is right there
neutral · AI labelView post →All of those are in my favourite films of the last decade - First Cow in my top two or three, an absolutely gorgeous movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I just finished The Half-Life by Jon Raymond and sobbed. I found out that the wonderful film First Cow was based on it from Scarecrow Video's Academy "Visions of America on Film" talk. I love you, movies, friendship, love, queerness, nature. So beautifully written.
neutral · AI labelView post →Escape From New York American Movie First Cow The King of Comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →NOW WATCHING 📽 FIRST COW (2019) dir. Kelly Reichardt
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I am using my inside voice to promote the work of Kelly Reichardt, queen of the quiet character study. Her highest-rated film is WENDY AND LUCY, but I think her best film is FIRST COW, a western that was my #1 film of 2020. #WomanDirectors #WomensHistoryMonth #21 #Filmsky 📽️ 🧵 [22/32]
positive · AI labelView post →Kelly Reichardt's First Cow tonight. It's crazy how stacked 2019 was for film. As if the form knew our senses of justice and empathy needed a boost for the decade on deck. Also, Lily Gladstone supremacy. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →It's good! It's super heavy as only a Danish Arthouse film can be. Great for fans of "First Cow" "Black Robe" and "Breaking the Waves"
neutral · AI labelView post →I found First Cow blu-ray / dvd for a dollar. I don’t know anything about it other than it’s René Auberjonois’ last film
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Kelly Reichert's "First Cow" at a small local movie theater. It is a wonderful work, and there are many good scenes, but what moved me most was the scene where Cookie said, "If the blueberry is available” I was struck by the use of the word “available”.
positive · AI labelView post →366 Days of Film: Day 261 - First Cow. Kelly Reichardt’s (Meek’s Cutoff) attention to detail is incredible in this film about a forager and a Chinese man who befriend each other in trapper country and steal milk from Oregon’s first cow, in the hope of making their fortune in crowd-pleasing biscuits.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m still mad because on the last day before the Covid lockdown started, I had the choice between watching The Hunt and First Cow, and saw The Hunt instead, planning to see First Cow the next day. B/w when the movie started and ended, everything shut down 😀 so no First Cow
neutral · AI labelView post →Toby Jones is getting his moment in “First Cow” and I bloody love Kelly Reichardt. This is an amazing film.
positive · AI labelView post →If there’s a time of year to watch this film, it’s now. First Cow mostly takes place outside under the dreary cloud clover of Oregon. You can listen to our new episode with @jjdotbiz.bsky.social researcher for @blankcheck.bsky.social available now on Spotify and wherever podcasts can be found 🎧 🐄
neutral · AI labelView post →Has there ever been a more beautiful movie about making biscuits with the homie? Tune in to our latest episode where we discuss First Cow with @jjdotbiz.bsky.social 🎧 spotify.link/LBezpJUSsDb
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, where else would you see a western about a couple of gentle souls with their small dreams other than in a Kelly Reichardt film? As usual, shot in 16mm, 4:3 by Christopher Blauvelt, the mossy forest of Pacific Northwest has never been more beautiful. And with gentle, fitting music by William Tyler, First Cow is one of those rare, perfect movies in every single way. It's something you want to cherish for years to come. Now I want some oily cake with honey! #firstcow #kellyreichardt
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite movie of each year of the 2020s: 2020: First Cow 2021: Petite Maman 2022: Trenque Lauquen / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (tie) 2023: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2024: Dahomey 2025: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions 2026 (so far): Blue Heron #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Thank you! And yeah, First Cow was incredible, just a sublime, perfect movie. I really liked The Mastermind, I thought it was very funny and sort of darkly ironic in a way that's pretty unlike the others of hers I've seen. Would be curious to hear your thoughts on it whenever you end up watching
positive · AI labelView post →Incidentally, First Cow was the last movie I saw at the Arclight Hollywood.
neutral · AI labelView post →First Cow is a beautiful film. I loved it, left a huge impression on me.
positive · AI labelView post →Francis Lee is great, i’m looking forward to his next film, which is supposed to be gay arctic horror (i read the book and it’s SO scary) have you seen First Cow? i feel like if you like a Gods Own Country you’d like it too (not technically gay but might as well be). one of my favs
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