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Gillie Collins

About Gillie Collins

Gillie Collins is a Staff Writer at The Seventh Row. She thinks movies are magical and likes to write about why.

Gillie Collins / October 25, 2018

Interview: Free Soloist Alex Honnold on scaling a cliff while making a documentary

Rock climber Alex Honnold discusses Free Solo, a new documentary about his ascent of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan—without ropes.

Imogen Thomas, Emu Runner, Rhae-Kye Waites

Gillie Collins / October 2, 2018

Imogen Thomas on Emu Runner: ‘The film willed its way into existence.’

Director Imogen Thomas discusses her feature, Emu Runner, which explores an Aboriginal girl’s (Rhae-Kye Waites) grief — and her community’s resilience — after her mother’s death.

Coming of age, Leave No Trace

Gillie Collins / July 17, 2018

Growing up and growing apart: Coming of age in Leave No Trace

In this essay, Gillie Collins explores how Leave No Trace uses the unusual story of a father and daughter living in the woods to tell the classic coming of age narrative of parent-child separation. This is the third article in our Special Issue on Leave No Trace, which is now available as an ebook.

Agnès Varda, Faces Places, JR

Gillie Collins / February 5, 2018

Agnès Varda’s Faces Places re-sensitizes us to the internet

In her new documentary, Faces Places, French New Wave director Agnès Varda interrogates the boundary between the internet and real life — an interest that is reflected in Varda’s personal Instagram.

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Gillie Collins / May 3, 2017

Review: I, Daniel Blake is a declaration of personhood

Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or Winner I, Daniel Blake is a bracing call-to-action against bureaucratic failures to treat citizens like people. But it falters by giving us a character who is uncontroversially the Deserving Poor without challenging this as a concept.

Quiet Passion, Terence Davies

Gillie Collins / April 14, 2017

Review: A Quiet Passion charts Emily Dickinson’s subtle rebellion

In A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies’ new biopic, Emily Dickinson, the famously reclusive poet, comes to life as an understated renegade, who deserts gendered orthodoxies to pursue her art. This is the first article in our Special Issue on A Quiet Passion.

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