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Lindsay Pugh joins Seventh Row Podcast hosts Alex Heeney and Orla Smith for a discussion of two rom-coms about unwanted pregnancies, Ninjababy and Obvious Child.
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Alex and Orla count down the 30 best films of 2021 and discuss the process behind creating the list.
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We’re celebrating the legacy of Aboriginal Australian actor David Gulpilil. Gulpilil died on November 29th 2021, at age 68, leaving behind him a career of rich performances, despite the many ways the industry underserved him for decades. On this episode, we particularly focus on Charlie’s Country, as a film that was so personal to Gulpilil, and which features probably his best performance.
We also survey Gulpilil’s legacy, both his vital contributions to film, and also how his troubling domestic abuse conviction complicates that legacy. We discuss the issues that arise when representation of marginalised groups is so slim that we start to view the few successful figures as heroes rather than flawed humans.
We contextualize Kenneth Branagh’s newest entry Belfast in his decades long self-mythologising project and discuss “the Branagh scale”
On the podcast, we discuss the recent BFI restoration of Mike Leigh’s 1993 classic Naked, starring David Thewlis. We also discuss our favourite Mike Leigh films. Podcast hosts Alex Heeney and Orla Smith are joined by regular guest Lindsay Pugh.
We’re joined by Fiona Underhill and Caitlin Merriman to battle it out: who is the poshest actor in Britain? And what defines ‘posh’ in such a class-conscious country?
