Celebrate the year of Kelly Reichardt
Everything is coming up Kelly Reichardt this year! Be ahead of the crowd by showing your Reichardt fandom and be ready for her new film Showing Up.
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Seventh Row is a one-stop shop for discovering great new films, diving deep into why they make you feel the way they do, and how they’re made. We’re here to help you join the conversation.
Every review, interview, workshop, and podcast episode is designed with one thing in mind: to help film lovers think deeply about films and expand their horizons through film.
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Seventh Row has published books on some of the best contemporary filmmakers, including Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Lynne Ramsay, Andrew Haigh, Mike Leigh, and Joachim Trier (coming in 2022).
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Our ebooks help you explore contemporary cinema through interviews with the filmmakers — not just the directors but everyone on the filmmaking team — and essays on the films.
Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
Explore the line between fiction and nonfiction in documentary film through essays and interviews.
The book features in-depth interviews with Robert Greene (Procession), Joe Bini (Little Ethiopia), Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee), Eliane Raheb (Miguel’s War), Gillian Armstrong (Women He’s Undressed), and more
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On Seventh Row, you’ll find in-depth interviews with the most exciting new and establish auteurs, reviews of the best films at festivals and newly released, plus podcast episodes, and more.
Quick Thoughts: Violeta Salama’s sensitive Alegría at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension
Cannes Review: Naomi Kawase’s Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis
Cannes: Falcon Lake explores the threshold between childhood and adolescence
Cannes: Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees is a thoughtful day Tunisian drama
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Each episode features a panel of guests, including Seventh Row editors and contributors, academics, and film critics. We dive deep into what makes a film tick, why we love it, and curate only the films most worth discussing.
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The Seventh Circle: A symposium on horror films
Rent access to four talks on horror — and the discussions that follow — through the lens of gender, sexuality, and disability.
Speakers include Lena Wilson, Orla Smith, Dr. Angelo Muredda, and Joe Lipsett.
The 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Rent access to recorded conversations between pairs of filmmakers discussing documentary filmmaking: from personal cinema to reclaiming history.
Speakers include directors Kirsten Johnson, Sophy Romvari, Robert Greene, and more.