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Welcome to Seventh Row:
a place to think deeply about film

You laughed; you cried; you loved it; you hated it — we help you figure out why.

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Visit Seventh Row to revel in the afterglow of outstanding, under-the-radar cinema. Through in-depth interviews and well-researched essays, we demystify the myriad technical choices behind films we love. Every three months, we release an ebook bringing together thoughtful criticism about a film, filmmaker or topic.

There are no prerequisites to loving movies. We write for curious newcomers and experienced cinephiles, alike.

Seventh Row is a Canadian not-for-profit online publication and publishing house.

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What our readers are saying

“When I’ve fallen in love with a film, I want to pore over the details and consider it deeply, and Seventh Row indulges that.”
Jessica Dillon
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“7R has made me rethink movies — or actors — more than once, and thus enriched my movie experiences more than any other outlet today.”
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“Seventh Row’s interviews are to film what the Paris Review interviews are to literature.”
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A few of our favourite research areas

Sound Design

We talk to directors and sound designers about the art of sound design.

Performances

Longform essays about individual performances and actors’ careers, plus interviews with actors about their craft

Stage vs. Screen

Investigating the cross-pollination between film and theatre and what makes each medium distinct

World Cinema for Young Adults

Discover great films from around the world about young adults and/or suitable for young adults

Canadian cinema

Discover amazing films made in Canada, from Indigenous cinema to creative nonfiction documentaries and beyond.

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Films we love

Leave No Trace

Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a heart-wrenching father-daughter story.

You Were Never Really Here

Lynne Ramsay’s unconventional thriller puts us inside the head of a PTSD-stricken hitman.

Thelma

Joachim Trier’s film is part horror part family drama with a feminist twist.

More films we love

Directors we love

Luca Guadagnino

Our in-depth look at Call Me by Your Name is our most popular Special Issue.

Anne Émond

The Québécois writer-director of Nelly and Our Loved Ones has distinguished herself as one of Canada’s most exciting new voices.

Chloé Zhao

Zhao is one of the great American filmmakers dedicated to telling stories about masculinity and family, using non-actors.

More directors we love

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Coming of age
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Canadian cinema
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Performances
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Technical aspects

Production Design
Sound Design
Blocking
Cinematography
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Area of interest

Jewish Cinema
LGBTQ
Indigenous Film
Cross-cultural stories
Immigration
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Film, theatre, and adaptations

Stage vs. Screen
Adaptations
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Unreliable Narrators
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Our Ebooks

  • Existential detours: Joachim Trier’s cinema of indecisions and revisions
  • Subjectives realities: The art of creative nonfiction film – an ebook
  • In their own words: Fiction directors – an ebook on filmmaking
  • Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt’s broken American dreams – an ebook to prepare you for First Cow
  • Portraits of Resistance: The Cinema of Céline Sciamma
  • 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
  • In their own words: Documentary masters vol. 1
  • Leave No Trace
  • Lean on Pete
  • You Were Never Really Here
  • Call Me by Your Name

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Directors We Love

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