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Gillie Collins

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. …

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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 — …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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