'Old Joy' and 'Wendy and Lucy' at the New Beverly

Kelly Reichardt's two most recent films, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, will be screening at the New Beverly on April 14-15. I sing their praises in L.A. Weekly, arguing that Reichardt "has become one of our most perceptive observers of outsiders, turning the Pacific Northwest ... into a microcosm for the decaying individualist spirit in an increasingly-conformist American society." That sounds pretty bleak, I know -- and yet there's so much beauty in her films.