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Leave No Trace: A Special Issue ebook

Take home the ebook now

This ebook is a crucial roadmap to the inner-workings of Leave No Trace, featuring interviews with the filmmaking team and essays on the film's themes and amazing performances. Bursting with exclusive content and incisive analyses, this is an eBook to read and cherish. Make it yours now.

 

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Contents

Elena Lazic interviews director Debra Granik
Elena Lazic interviews cinematographer Michael McDonough
Gillie Collins on externalizing the process of an adolescent separating from a parent
Brett Pardy on white poverty and empathy in Granik's films
Alex Heeney on Ben Foster, including an interview with the actor
Alex Heeney interviews editor Jane Rizzo
Orla Smith on Thomasin McKenzie's performance
Alex Heeney on Ben Foster's career and his subtle depictions of trauma


Seventh Row Editors / October 5, 2018

Ep. 1: Leave No Trace

For the first episode of the new Seventh Row podcast, our host and Associate Editor Elena Lazic is joined by Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Associate Editor Orla Smith, and Contributing Editors Gillie Collins and Brett Pardy, for a discussion about Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.

Alex Heeney / October 4, 2018

Familiar Faces: Ben Foster’s subtle depictions of trauma

Ben Foster has made a career out of portraying complicated men with some relationship to trauma, in as quiet and subtle way as possible. We delve deep into the obscure, the under-rated, and the best work of his career and look at what makes it great.

Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace

Orla Smith / October 3, 2018

Thomasin McKenzie tracks every step toward independence in Leave No Trace

Increment by increment, Thomasin McKenzie tracks Tom’s journey from girl to young woman. This is the seventh piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace , which is now available as an ebook.

Alex Heeney / August 13, 2018

Editor Jane Rizzo: ‘There’s very little story, so it is about building the moments’

Editor Jane Rizzo discusses cutting Leave No Trace, developing the father-daughter relationship, building the soundscapes for different locations, and restructuring the story in the edit. This is the sixth article in our  Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace , which is now available as an ebook.

Ben Foster stars in Leave No Trace

Alex Heeney / July 24, 2018

Ben Foster on silence and trauma in Leave No Trace

In this interview, Ben Foster discusses how he prepared for his role as Will in Leave No Trace. This is an excerpt from the ebook Leave No Trace: A Special Issue. Get your copy here.

Brett Pardy / July 21, 2018

Debra Granik frames poverty as a systemic failure to empathize

Debra Granik’s films — Down to the Bone, Stray Dog, and Leave No Trace — focus on individuals who struggle to navigate an unfriendly social support system in an attempt to get help. This is the fourth piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, which is now available as an ebook.

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