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Praise for Seventh Row’s ebooks

I can’t recommend Roads to Nowhere enough

“A book that celebrates the auteur that is Reichardt without erasing the collectivity of making movies… This is a book about making films, but it’s also about watching cinema, experiencing its refracted perspectives, and going into the imagination of others. 

As a Kelly Reichardt fan, I can’t recommend it enough and hope that, if you do venture into its pages of knowledge and discovery, you can find as much joy as I did…one sometimes feels alone in their cinephilia. Roads to Nowhere assures us, at least it assured me, that we’re not lonesome after all.”

Cláudio Alves
Critic, The Film Experience

A cornerstone for future Sciamma scholarship

“Portraits of Resistance covers enormous ground, reading Sciamma’s work as queer cinema, women’s cinema, European cinema, looking at the both the stories and the aesthetics, and how Sciamma has already created distinct and unique films with a singular voice. Not only is it a great introduction for any who want to learn more about the filmmaker, it will be a cornerstone for any future Sciamma scholarship.”
Shelag Rowan-Legg
Editor, Screen Anarchy

One of the finest film-related texts of 2019

One of the finest film-related texts of 2019 was the Seventh Row team’s analysis of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo…edited by two of the smartest, most readable writers on film art, Orla Smith and Alex Heeney…Reading this caused me to revisit the film, and actually change my opinion—and how rare is that? The writing is top-notch.

Christopher Schobert
Film Critic, The Film Stage

A fantastic ebook on You Were Never Really Here

“Seventh Row‘s ebook allows for a deeper appreciation of a brilliant piece of art. It’s what we want more often from critical analysis — a conversation with the art and its creators — but so rarely get.”
Brian Tallerico
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  • Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and The Struggle for Female Agency
  • The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook
  • Tour of Memories: on Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir
  • Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh collaboration
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  • Call Me by Your Name

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