Seventh Row

A place to think deeply about movies

Career Studies

Explore patterns in a filmmaker's or performer's body of work to date.

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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 Ben Foster’s career — from The Messenger to Liberty Heights to A Streetcar Named Desire to Leave No Trace — and look at what makes it great. 

This is an excerpt from the ebook Leave No Trace: A Special Issue. Get your copy here.

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Bright Young Things: Josh O’Connor is ready to be vulnerable

We take an in-depth look at the career of rising star Josh O’Connor who plays Johnny Saxby in God’s Own Country, his performance in the film, and talk to the actor about both. Seventh Row also dubs him one of our Bright Young Things. This piece is an excerpt from our ebook God’s Own Country: A Special Issue, which is available for purchase here.

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Two opposing sensibilities: Gianfranco Rosi and Frederick Wiseman

Every documentarian has a unique approach to filmmaking, but you might not expect that Frederick Wiseman and Gianfranco Rosi often have polar opposite approaches to making their films. Based on two interviews with each documentarian, we break down their many points of difference, and a few similarities, in their approaches.

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