Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.
Canadian Cinema
Promoting and spotlighting Canadian Cinema is one of the goals of The Seventh Row. Here you'll find reviews of Canadian films and interviews with Canadian directors.
Creative Nonfiction #3: Philippe Falardeau on Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident and reinventing the true crime doc
In the third episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Philippe Falardeau discusses his four-part documentary series, Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident, and reinventing the true crime doc.
I Used to Be Funny is a thoughtful dramedy about PTSD
Ally Pankiw’s I Used to Be Funny addresses coping with PTSD with a light touch, in this story of a struggling female comic.
Graham Foy on The Maiden
Foy mentions that the film’s day-for-night shots were inspired by Reichardt’s First Cow, which does likewise. How did cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt shoot day for night in First Cow? Blauvelt goes deep on this in our ebook on Kelly Reichardt, Roads to nowhere, available here.
E131: Remembering Jeff Barnaby
This podcast episode pays tribute to the great films and enormous impact of Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby who passed away on October 13, 2022. He directed two landmark Indigenous feature films out of Canada: Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) and Blood Quantum (2019).
Festival du nouveau cinema is a haven for cinephiles
The 2022 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma put on a spotlight on eclectic and avant grade films still seeking international distribution, like Coma, The Maiden, and Continental Drift (South).