In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith have a wide ranging conversation about film criticism and more specifically women in film criticism with Lindsay Pugh of Woman in Revolt. They begin discussing our new ebook, Portraits of resistance: The cinema of Céline Sciamma and the conversation evolves to cover Seventh Row’s approach to putting together books and the lack of good film criticism on women directors.

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Show notes and recommended reading
- Pre-order Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt’s broken American dreams, our upcoming ebook on Kelly Reichardt, available in early June.
- Follow Lindsay Pugh’s work on her fantastic blog, Woman in Revolt.
- Listen to our episode on Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady of Fire, including a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of our new book, Portraits of resistance: The cinema of Céline Sciamma.
- Preview or purchase our latest ebook, Portraits of resistance, which was published in February 2020.
- Preview or purchase our ebook on Mike Leigh, Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh collaboration, which was published in April 2019.
- Preview or purchase our ebook on Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, which was published in October 2018.
- Preview or purchase our ebook on Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete, which was published in November 2018.
- Read Alex’s interview with Mouthpiece director Patricia Rozema and writers/actors Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, which features in our ebook The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook.
- Read Alex’s interview with Sally Potter on her film The Party.
- Read Alex’s interview with Gillian Armstrong on her film Women He’s Undressed.
- Read Alex’s interview with Maren Ade on her film Toni Erdmann.
- Check out our special issue on Dominic Cooke’s On Chesil Beach.