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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.
Gabe Klinger’s Porto is a prime example of a seemingly romantic film that is insidiously misogynistic which uses multiple film stocks as an aesthetic gimmick. The film premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
[Read more…] about Taking stock: a closer look at Gabe Klinger’s Porto
Jesse Thompson explores sound, place, and gentrification in Aquarius and its parallels to the realities of real estate in Sydney, Australia.
[Read more…] about Age in Place: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s AquariusEvery 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.
[Read more…] about Two opposing sensibilities: Gianfranco Rosi and Frederick WisemanBrazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho discusses his new film Aquarius, creating its complex sound design, choosing the soundtrack, and Brazilian architecture. Read our essay on Aquarius here.
[Read more…] about Director Kleber Mendonça Filho on the sounds of AquariusThis is the second part of our two-part interview with Benedict Andrews on his feature debut Una and the differences between directing for film and theatre. Read part one here.
[Read more…] about Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for theatre vs film: part 2
Australian theatre director Benedict Andrews, who directed Blackbird in Berlin back in 2005, discusses the challenges of adapting the play for the screen in Una, as well as the differences between directing for stage and screen. Go to part 2 of the interview.
[Read more…] about Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for the stage vs. screen part 1