Cannes Winning director Cristian Mungiu discusses his approach to sound and framing in Graduation. …
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Must Reads
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.
Theatre Review: Simon McBurney’s The Encounter has to be experienced live
Simon McBurney's one-man show The Encounter is a journey into the Amazon and the nature of consciousness, using theatre itself as a metaphor for memory. …
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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 by making …
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HotDocs Interview: Director Ann Shin on the making of My Enemy, My Brother
Director Ann Shin and producer Hannah Donegan discuss the making of My Enemy, My Brother, Shin's poignant documentary about two men who fought on opposite sides …
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Davies’ adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea is a memory film with an unreliable narrator
In Terence Davies' screen adaptation of Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester's memories, nudging us to accept her interpretation of …
Brutal beauty: Terence Davies’ adaptation of The House of Mirth
In The House of Mirth, Terence Davies captures an increasingly bleak world for Lily Bart, the least hopeful of his outsider protagonists. This is the fourth …
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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 gendered …
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‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper
By using text messages as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions. This is the fourth essay …
On stiffness and soul: Kristen Stewart and the ‘bad acting’ myth
Kristen Stewart uses physical tics as pointedly as lines of dialogue. Her artificial, artfully rendered oddness reveals something naturalism could not. This is …
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To reveal and conceal: Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria
In Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas draws on our fascination with Kristen Stewart to narrow the gap between her star and screen personas. This is the third …
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