Philippe Lesage discusses Genèse, a coming-of-age story about searching for love in a repressive, violent adult world, and bringing the spirit of a novel into filmmaking. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
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Ep. 9: Best of 2018 Canadian cinema, part 2
Episode 9 of our podcast concludes our discussion on the best of 2018 Canadian Cinema, through the lens of Canada’s Top Ten Film List. In this episode, we discuss Genesis, Giant Little Ones, Mouthpiece, Roads in February, and What Walaa Wants.
Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival releases a list of Canada’s top ten best films. Using this list to guide discussion, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and Contributing Writer Justine Smith discuss each film.
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We have split our discussion into two episodes to cover each film with depth. On this episode, we discuss:
- Genèse (Genesis) (dir. Philippe Lesage)
- Giant Little Ones (dir. Keith Behrman)
- Mouthpiece (dir. Patricia Rozema)
- Roads in February (dir. Katherine Jerkovic)
- What Walaa Wants (dir. Cathy Garland)
We also discuss our favourite 2018 Canadian films not on the list.
Show notes and recommended reading:
Read the 2018 Canada’s top 10 list
Interview: A country is drowning in Anote’s Ark. Director Matthieu Rytz discusses how he got involved with making the film and how he approached embedding himself, and us, into the story of life in Kiribati.
Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman. Writer-director Darlene Naponse on her unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land.
Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training. Jean-François Caissy’s verité documentary takes us behind the curtain to follow a group of Québécois recruits to the Canadian armed forces through the 12-week basic training boot camp. The film reveals how training designed to equalize recruits is yet another machine that reproduces a conservative set of norms.
Interview: Paper Year director Rebecca Addelman discusses fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration.
We included Canadian films Falls Around Her, Giant Little Ones, The Great Darkened Days, and Splinters as among our top 20 acquistion titles at TIFF ’18.
Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney wrote a two part series on how Canadian cinema was the brightest star at TIFF18, but the festival should do more to bring these great films to critics and audiences.
This episode was edited by Edward von Aderkas.
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Ep. 8: Best of 2018 Canadian cinema, part 1
Episode 8 of our podcast begins our discussion on the best of 2018 Canadian Cinema, through the lens of Canada’s Top Ten Film List. In this episode, we discuss Anthropocene, Edge of the Knife, Firecrackers, The Fireflies are Gone, and Freaks.
Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival releases a list of Canada’s ten best films. Using this list to guide discussion, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and Contributing Writer Justine Smith discuss the best of Canadian cinema in 2018.
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We have split our discussion into two episodes to cover each film with depth. On this episode, we discuss:
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (dirs. Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, & Edward Burtynsky)
- Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) (dirs. Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown)
- Firecrackers (dir. Jasmin Mozaffari)
- The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) (dir. Sébastien Pilote)
- Freaks (dir. Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein)
We also discusses the selection process and why this list is important the Canadian film industry. Part 2 will be posted next week.
Show notes and recommended reading for Canadian cinema in 2018
Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destruction. Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.
Interview: Edge of the Knife tells a pre-colonialism story of the Haida legend of ‘The Wildman’. Co-director and Haida artist Gwaai Edenshaw discusses his landmark film Edge of the Knife (Swaaway K’uuna), the first feature film made in the Haida language.
We included Anthropocene, Edge of the Knife, Firecrackers, and The Fireflies are Gone as among our top 20 acquistion titles at TIFF ’18.
This episode was edited by Edward von Aderkas.
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Sundance 2019 World Dramatic highlights
The Sundance World Dramatic Competition always features international hidden gems, and the 2019 highlights included Queen of Hearts and The Last Tree.
Ep. 7: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
In episode 7 of the Seventh Row podcast, we revisit our ebook on Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete by discussing one of the best film’s of 2018.
In this podcast episode, we discuss Andrew Haigh’s fourth feature, Lean on Pete. The film follows homeless 15-year-old Charley as he traverses the American midwest, searching for his long lost aunt. Charley is alone but for a stolen racehorse names Lean on Pete and a collection of different strangers he meets along the way. At Seventh Row, we were huge fans of the film when it was released back in April, so much so that we decided to dedicate an entire Special Issue to it. That issue has recently been turned into an eBook that’s basically essential reading for fans of the film: you won’t find a more comprehensive look at its making. To celebrate our eBook’s release, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Associate Editor Orla Smith, and Contributing Editor Brett Pardy got together on the podcast to talk about this wonderful film.
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This podcast episode on Lean on Pete was edited by Edward von Aderkas.
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Nadine Labaki on the making of Capernaum, her most ambitious film to date
Nadine Labaki discusses Capernaum, an unflinching look at the poverty and injustice in the slums of Beirut told through the eyes of a child (Zain Al Rafeea) suing his parents for giving him life.
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