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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.

My Internship in Canada, Philippe Falardeau, See The North

Alex Heeney / April 1, 2016

National Treasure Philippe Falardeau discusses his political satire My Internship in Canada

National Treasure Philippe Falardeau’s My Internship in Canada (Guibord s’en va-t-en Guerre) is the epitome of a great political satire: absolutely hilarious and with enough on its mind to make you think. Falardeau discusses writing and making the film, the discussions it’s provoked, and how he made the first great Canadian political satire on film.

No Home Movie

Alex Heeney / March 29, 2016

Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essay

Chantal Akerman’s moving cinematic essay is a tribute to her mother, a holocaust survivor, and a subtle exploration of Jewish “suitcase-ready” culture.

Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes

Brandon Nowalk / March 10, 2016

Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal

Arabian Nights is the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Alex Heeney / February 25, 2016

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his collaboration with Adi Rukun, the importance of empathy, and the magical realist landscape and soundscape of his Oscar-nominated documentary The Look of Silence.

Sandy Powell

Sam Woolf / February 23, 2016

Sandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t

Costume designer Sandy Powell showed how two starkly different women refashion one another into a perfect match. 

Mustang

Gillie Collins / February 22, 2016

The politics of sisterhood in Mustang

Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.

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