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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.

An image collage of stills from groups of characters in Mangrove and Ultraviolence.

Orla Smith / October 21, 2020

Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality

Films about police brutality in the UK are sorely lacking, but this year’s London Film Festival gave us two: Ken Fero’s mishandled Ultraviolence and Steve McQueen’s brilliant Mangrove.

An image of director Alankrita Shrivastava in front of a collage of her films.

Kanika Katyal / October 19, 2020

‘Men are so used to seeing their gaze perpetuated’: Alankrita Shrivastava on censors and patriarchy

Alankrita Shrivastava (Turning 30, Lipstick Under My Burkha) on shaking up the patriarchal film industry and the Indian censorship board.

Alex Heeney / September 28, 2020

An in-depth conversation with the women behind Mouthpiece

Director Patricia Rozema and actors Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, all of whom co-wrote Mouthpiece together, discuss adapting Mouthpiece from stage to screen, telling an unapologetically Canadian and feminist story, and much more. This interview is an excerpt. The full interview is only available in The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. This article was originally published […]

An Indigenous man in a traditional headdress surveys the landscape in Inconvenient Indian. In the foreground of the image is director Michelle Latimer. The text on the images reads 'Interview'.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2020

TIFF Interview: Michelle Latimer on Indigenous agency in Inconvenient Indian

Michelle Latimer discusses Inconvenient Indian, her award winning essay film, and reclaiming cultural images of Indigenous people.

Director Sophy Romvari in front of a still from her film Still Processing. This is an interview from TIFF.

Justine Smith / September 12, 2020

TIFF Interview: Sophy Romvari on Still Processing and personal cinema

Sophy Romvari’s deeply personal documentary short, Still Processing, is a triumph of personal cinema. Read about how Romvari made the film…

Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle in On Chesil Beach face each other, one of them coloured in blue, the other coloured in red. They stand against a seaside background.

Alex Heeney / September 6, 2020

We need to talk about sex in On Chesil Beach

In On Chesil Beach (starring Saoirse Ronan), sex causes the breakdown of a relationship because the couple doesn’t have the language to discuss it.

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