Renowned theatre director Benedict Andrews makes a remarkable feature debut with Una, a screen adaptation of David Harrower’s award-winning play Blackbird. Get our two-part interview with Benedict Andrews. Listen to our podcast on films depicting childhood sexual assault, including Una and Slalom.
stage vs screen
Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for the stage vs. screen part 1
Australian theatre director Benedict Andrews, who directed Blackbird in Berlin back in 2005, discusses the challenges of adapting the play for the screen in Una, as well as the differences between directing for stage and screen. Go to part 2 of the interview.
2015 films according to Shakespeare
Love Shakespeare? Listen to our Shakespeare podcast, 21st Folio. Love these 2015 films? Find out what we do at Seventh Row to cover films like these. Last night, I posed a little challenge on Twitter, to pair Shakespeare quotes with 2015 films: Challenge: summarize this year's awards hopeful films with a Shakespeare quote. You're disqualified […]
Experimenter‘s experiments don’t succeed
Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter pulls from theatrical conventions — creating two-dimensional backdrops and breaking the fourth wall — to depict a landmark psychological experiment: In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) conducted experiments on obedience in an effort to understand the obedience and conformity of the Nazis in the Holocaust.
‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’: Andersson’s dark humour and humanist touch are a rare delight
Roy Andersson’s final installment in his trilogy about being a human being (You, The Living and Songs from the Second Floor), A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, begins with a comedic bang of twisted humour: a series of three vignettes that detail “meetings with death.” In my favourite one, we find two […]
The Hollow Crown: ‘Henry V’ — Measuring what use the King made of his wilder days
Thea Sharrock offers a radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” with a great lead performance from Tom Hiddleston.