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Una, Blackbird

Alex Heeney / October 6, 2016

Una is a psychologically complex screen adaptation of Blackbird

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.

Una, Blackbird

Alex Heeney / October 3, 2016

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

Alex Heeney / January 12, 2016

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

Noemi Berkowitz / October 24, 2015

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.

Alex Heeney / June 8, 2015

‘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 […]

Henry V

Alex Heeney / October 18, 2013

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. 

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