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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.

Fish Tank

Gillie Collins / February 8, 2016

Landscape and limbo in Fish Tank

In Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self-protection

Hail, Caesar

Alex Heeney / February 6, 2016

Hail, Caesar: The Coen Brothers’ Golden Age

The Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar is a glorious, hilarious tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood. With its very own Esther Williams (Scarlett Johansson), Carmen Miranda (Veronica Osorio), and Gene Kelly (Channing Tatum), it’s got all the stock characters and genres of classic cinema. Even Roger Deakins’ 35mm cinematography mimics old movies, framing the action head-on as if filming a stage.

Sloan Prize

Alex Heeney / February 4, 2016

Why you’ve never heard of the Sloan Prize

I’d like to think of the Sundance Film Festival’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize as a beacon of hope for science in film. But it’s an award that no one is promoting, bestowed for reasons no one can divine, based on a process that no one will talk about

The Fits

Alex Heeney / February 2, 2016

Anna Rose Holmer on her Sundance hit The Fits

Holmer discusses how working with the New York City ballet influenced her film, how she used sound and editing to tell the story, and the shooting rules she set for herself.

Sonita, 2016 San Francisco Film Festival

Alex Heeney / January 28, 2016

Sonita and Sand Storm at Sundance: when the patriarchy looks like your mother

Both films explore how empowered women function within a patriarchal society. They pose the question, can you defeat the patriarchy simply by exercising agency?

45 Years, Music in film 2015

Alex Heeney / January 22, 2016

45 Years of marriage on thin ice

In 45 Years, Andrew Haigh uses sound and very precise framing to develop a complex, cinematic story of a long-term relationship. Read our book about Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete.

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