Falardeau discusses writing and making the film, the political discussions it’s provoked, and how he made the first great Canadian political satire on film. The film is the epitome of a great political satire: absolutely hilarious and with enough on its mind to make you think.
[Read more…] about National Treasure Philippe Falardeau discusses his political satire My Internship in CanadaMust 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.
Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essay
Alex Heeney reviews Chantal Akerman’s moving cinematic essay No Home Movie: a tribute to her mother, a holocaust survivor, and a subtle exploration of Jewish “suitcase-ready” culture.
[Read more…] about Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essayArabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal
Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as 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. The film is available on VOD, Fandor, and Blu Ray.
[Read more…] about Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era PortugalJoshua 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. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1.
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[Read more…] about Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of SilenceSandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t
Sam Woolf analyses how Carol costume designer Sandy Powell used clothing and accessories to communicate how two starkly different women refashion one another into a perfect match.
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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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