In this essay, Alex Heeney explores looking for home in Andrew Haigh’s films: Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete, and the show Looking.
Blocking
Ep. 28: 1917 and Jarhead — Sam Mendes’ war films
1917 is an awards favourite, but its blocking is the real reason we wanted to discuss it. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney is joined by Associate Editor Brett Pardy and special guest Debbie Zhou
Ep. 24: Marriage Story
Alex Heeney, Orla Smith, Mary Angela Rowe, and Brett Pardy discuss one of 2019’s most controversial films: Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.
Spatial relationships in the films of Joanna Hogg
In all of her films, Joanna Hogg uses spaces to structure her characters’ relationships, often finding them trapped by their own privilege and complacency in safe spaces; the characters need to step outside their comfort spaces to grow and develop. This essay appears in the new Seventh Row ebook Tour of Memories: The Creative Process […]
Approaching center frame in The Souvenir
In The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg demonstrates Julie’s development from a shy observer to the main character in her own story through the way Julie occupies the room and the frame. This essay is a sneak preview of the new ebook on the film, Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir. Get […]
Interview: Colour reveals character in LOP‘s set design
Lean on Pete production designer Ryan Warren Smith discusses how he created rich, detailed environments that subtly reveal character. This is the third feature in our Special Issue on Lean on Pete.