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Must reads are the best of the best articles at The Seventh Row. These include reviews, interviews, and essays. If you're new to the site, this is a good place to start to get a sense of what kinds of stories we write. Here is the best of our multidisciplinary approach to reviewing films, our most illuminating and original interviews, and our best essays.
Ciro Guerra discusses telling a familiar story in an original way, using genre as a Trojan horse for ideas, and much more. Read our interview with co-director …
[Read more...] about Birds of Passage co-director Ciro Guerra on genre, tragedy, and hope
Timothée Chalamet is delivering some of modern cinema's most compelling coming-of-age performances, dealing with the contradictions and confusion of figuring …
[Read more...] about Timothée Chalamet and the contradictions of coming-of-age
Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie discusses playing the 'Hitler of Norway' in 22 July, its connection to his medical training, and his career as a whole. …
Promising filmmaker Gustav Möller and breakout actor Jakob Cedergren discuss their intense thriller set entirely in one location, with only one character …
[Read more...] about Gustav Möller and Jakob Cedergren on The Guilty: ‘Prepare for chaos’
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 …
[Read more...] about Familiar Faces: Ben Foster’s subtle depictions of trauma
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 …
[Read more...] about Thomasin McKenzie tracks every step toward independence in Leave No Trace
In Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei's horror film Cam — which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal — the villain isn't sex work, but a camgirl's …
[Read more...] about Cam is an intelligent and positive look at sex work
Ben Foster discusses how he prepared for his role as Will in Leave No Trace. This is the fifth piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, …
[Read more...] about Ben Foster on silence and trauma in Leave No Trace
On Chesil Beach production designer Suzie Davies discusses researching period, creating environments that contrast with the film's characters, and how …
[Read more...] about Interview: On Chesil Beach‘s sets destabilize its characters
In Fruitvale Station, Cake, Dope, and Mudbound, Rachel Morrison's cinematography immerses viewers in marginalized characters' points of view. …
[Read more...] about Rachel Morrison’s deeply empathetic cinematography
