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.
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.
‘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.
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 […]
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.
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…
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.