Seventh Row

A place to think deeply about movies

Coming soon in late 2023/early 2024

An ebook on the films of Joachim Trier, featuring The Worst Person in the World. This 360-degree look at the director’s process coupled with critical analysis will be the first full-length book ever published on his work.

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Peruse our recent ebooks

Books on (mostly women) filmmakers

These ebooks give a 360-degree look at the filmmaking process of their filmmakers (Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Joanna Hogg, and Mike Leigh) through interviews with the directors themselves and their team in front of and/or behind the camera. These are the only books on these filmmakers to deal in depth with their filmmaking process from multiple perspectives. Each book also features essays on the filmmaker’s filmography and films.

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An in-depth interview with Suzie Davies features in this book. Suzie Davies is one of our guests for the production design masterclass.

Books on fiction and nonfiction filmmaking

With our In their own words series, discover how multiple fiction filmmakers (Fiction directors) and documentary filmmakers (Documentary Masters) approach their craft from different perspectives. With Subjective realities, we build on the concept of “creative nonfiction” first defined and described by Penny Lane in Documentary Masters for a book-length look at films that explore the line between fiction and nonfiction through creative approachives to documentary.

Books on individual films

These books create a conversation between the art and the artist through in-depth essays and interviews. Get a 360-degree look at the filmmaking process through interviews with the directors and their heads of department. Dive into how the films fit into each filmmaker’s body of work, and discover why they make you feel the way they do through essays on the films’ themes and filmmaking approaches.

Books on collections of films

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What critics are saying

What we want more often from critical analysis but so rarely get

Seventh Row’s You Were Never Really Here: A Special Issue 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
Managing Editor, rogerebert.com

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, and this series of deep cinema exploration continues with Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. Both eBooks are once again edited by two of the smartest, most readable writers on film art, Orla Smith and Alex Heeney…Together, these Seventh Row ebooks tackle films that deserve serious respect and analysis. 
Christopher Schobert
Film Critic, The Film Stage

I have re-read Seventh Row’s ebooks more times than I care to admit.

Seventh Row’s Special Issues are of such a high standard that one would be excused to think they only belong in hardcover print. I have re-read them more times than I care to admit, and thanks to the ebooks, I do so on the bus to and from work, while I’m waiting for a movie to tart, or just on the bed at home.
Per M. Mjølkeråen
Film Critic

Insightful and brilliant essays and interviews


“If you want to read insightful and brilliant essays and interviews on filmmaking, consider getting Seventh Row‘s books!”
Oralia Torres
Film Critic

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Can I give an ebook as a gift?

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