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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.
If you haven't seen Naked, we'd suggest catching up with it over watching Guest of Honour, but either will leave you hungry for more of David Thewlis's acting. …
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Actress Lily Gladstone discusses her two collaborations with director Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women and First Cow. This is an excerpt of our Reichardt ebook, …
In the 11th session of Lockdown Film School, we delve deep with BAFTA-winning writer-director Amma Asante into her entire body of work, including A Way of Life, …
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Lockdown Film School #8In this session of Lockdown Film School, we talk to writer-director Alice Winocour about her features Augustine, Disorder, and Proxima in …
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Wintopia director Mira Burt-Wintonick on how she worked out a personal approach to making a documentary eulogy to her father, filmmaker Peter Wintonick.The film …
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In our interview with Jeff Barnaby, he discusses his zombie film about colonialism, Blood Quantum, telling Indigenous stories through genre, and working as his …
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