The Mastermind
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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 films that are impactful and culturally relevant—and to find financially sustainable ways to do so. Working multiple production jobs (2nd AC, carpenter, truck driver, key PA, line producer) on shorts, TV shows, commercials as well as features—the latter including Michel Franco’s Memory, Olmo Schnabel’s Pet Shop Days, Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante and Sean Baker’s Anora—I’ve tried to soak up as much knowledge as […]
by Angelo Chammah on Oct 17, 2025 -
Take Only What You Need: Kelly Reichardt Discusses The Mastermind with Yorgos Lanthimos
In 1972, a thief and two accomplices stole two Gauguins, one Picasso and a Rembrandt from the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. At the time, it was the largest art heist (and the first armed art heist) in American history; the thief, Florian Monday, would have entered the criminal pantheon had he not been swiftly captured after indiscreetly bragging about his crime. As she reveals in her conversation below with director Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt has kept an “art theft” file over the years, with an article on the 50th anniversary of the Worcester crime providing inspiration for her latest […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 17, 2025 -
Cannes 2025: Entroncamento, The Mastermind
In a piece about the documentaries at this year’s Cannes, Slate’s Sam Adams noted the existence of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk but declined to name the section it was in, referring to it only as “a low-profile sidebar devoted to independent productions.” That would be ACID, which—with the possible exception of the CINEF section that shows film school shorts—is, yes, probably the lowest-profile of the Cannes premieres sections. To decide ACID isn’t worth naming is a reminder of the infinite proliferation of hierarchies at Cannes; there are dark rumors that even though the press badges are […]
by Vadim Rizov on May 25, 2025
