In this episode we compare the new awards bait film Hillbilly Elegy to a more empathetic, politically conscious portrait of a mother struggling with addiction: Debra Granik's 2004 debut, Down to the Bone. This episode features Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Lindsay Pugh For detailed show notes, visit: <a class= "components-external-link edit-post-post-link__link" href= "https://seventh-row.com/?p=41937" target="_blank" rel= "external noreferrer noopener">https://seventh-row.com/2020/12/01/ep-68-hillbilly-elegy/</a> Follow Seventh Row on <a href="https://twitter.com/seventhrow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/seventhrow/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheSeventhRow">Facebook</a>, and read our articles at <a href= "https://seventh-row.com/">seventh-row.com</a>.

In this episode we compare the new awards bait film Hillbilly Elegy to a more empathetic, politically conscious portrait of a mother struggling with addiction: Debra Granik's 2004 debut, Down to the Bone. This episode features Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Lindsay Pugh For detailed show notes, visit: https://seventh-row.com/2020/12/01/ep-68-hillbilly-elegy/ Follow Seventh Row on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and read our articles at seventh-row.com.

In this episode we compare the new awards bait film Hillbilly Elegy to a more empathetic, politically conscious portrait of a mother struggling with addiction: Debra Granik's 2004 debut, Down to the Bone. This episode features Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Lindsay Pugh For detailed show notes, visit: <a href="https://seventh-row.com/?p=41937" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://seventh-row.com/2020/12/01/ep-68-hillbilly-elegy/</a> Follow Seventh Row on <a href="https://twitter.com/seventhrow" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/seventhrow/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheSeventhRow" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>, and read our articles at <a href="https://seventh-row.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">seventh-row.com</a>.

68. Hillbilly Elegy and Down to The Bone: Portraits of Mothers Struggling With Addiction

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A weekly film podcast that helps you have a more rewarding experience watching movies by connecting you to the best under-the-radar films from around the world so that you don’t have to watch all the movies to watch good movies that expand your cinematic horizons — both in content and form. This is a podcast about those films, the joys and challenges of finding and watching those films, how filmmaking choices affect our experience of them, and the people and places we discover through looking outside the mainstream and beyond the English language. Our mission is to upend the canon to be more inclusive by spotlighting and diving deep into international and independent films by and about women, Indigenous People, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized groups. Find multiple episodes on the films of Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Andrew Haigh, and Joachim Trier. Become a member to access the full (200+ episode) podcast archive and get early access to new episodes: http://seventh-row.com/join

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