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In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex is joined by Toronto-based film critic Angelo Muredda to discuss one of our most anticipated titles of the festival: Luca Guadagnino's Queer.
The film adapts the Williams S. Burroughs novel of the same name. Daniel Craig stars as William Lee, Burroughs' alter-ego, a lonely man in post-war Mexico City, desperately chasing after younger men. When he meets Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), he's instantly smitten, but Allerton plays hot and cold with him. After a tentative on-again-off-again courtship, Lee persuades Allerton to go to South America with him in search of hallucinogenic drugs that will help with telepathy.
In Queer, Guadagnino has reteamed with several Challengers collaborators: screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, costume designer Jonathan Anderson, cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and editor Marco Costa.
The episode is spoiler-free.
About the TIFF 2024 season:
The TIFF 2024 season will give you a preview of some of the best under-the-radar gems and some of the buzziest titles at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tiff24
In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex discusses two films starring Ralph Fiennes: Uberto Pasolini's The Return and Edward Berger's Conclave. In them, Fiennes respectively plays Odysseus at the end of his journey and a cardinal in charge of the process for selecting a new pope.
The episode is spoiler-free.
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tif24
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In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex discusses three films about bicultural daughters and their absent fathers.
Fittingly, the films are about identity, the role of the father-daughter relationship, and what it may mean for both father and daughter for that relationship to be severed.
To discuss the films' differing cultural contexts, I quote from interviews with the filmmakers, who share many similar insights despite their disparate backgrounds.
All three films are world premieres at TIFF and are still seeking North American/UK distributors.
The films are:
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tif24
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In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex discusses two new films from masters of British social realism: Andrea Arnold's Bird and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths.
Bird had its world premiere at Cannes in May; Hard Truths had its world premiere at TIFF.
Alex finds similarities in subject matter and storytelling approach between the films, including the very strong performances from some Seventh Row favourites, and discusses what each of them is individually doing that's worth noting.
Alex wrote the book on Mike Leigh's Peterloo and his process, so her discussion of Hard Truths places it within Leigh's oeuvre and discusses how his signature process helped make this film an impressive achievement.
On this episode
0:00 Intro to the episode
3:34 Andrea Arnold's Bird
16:32 Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
38:14 Closing remarks, more from TIFF to find and look forward to
More Andrea Arnold
More Mike Leigh
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tif24
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In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex discusses three films from around the world that take place within the world of sports but aren't really about sports.
Alex finds common ground in how the films are shot and tell stories, often through gestures and blocking rather than dialogue.
These films are:
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tiff24
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In this episode of the TIFF 2024 season, Alex discusses the four Palestinian films at this year's festival.
These films are:
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tiff24
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The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) kicks off on Thursday, September 5, and Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will cover it with a series of podcast episodes.
In this episode, Alex introduces the podcast season and explains why this season is for you and whether or not you're attending TIFF this year.
I'll explain what to expect from this podcast season and why TIFF and our coverage are relevant to you if you're interested in exploring world cinema.
About the TIFF 2024 season:
In the TIFF 2024 season, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney will discuss some of the best under-the-radar gems at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival through themed episodes.
This is for you if:
The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).
Click here for a link to all of our TIFF 2024 coverage.
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Alex Heeney interviews writer-director (and Seventh Row fan!) India Donaldson about her debut feature, Good One. Inspired by Seventh Row favourites Kelly Reichardt and Joanna Hogg (we wrote the books on both of them!), Donaldson's film is a quiet story of a teenage girl who goes camping in the woods with her self-absorbed divorced father and his father's best friend. We observe her as she observes the adults who don't quite behave like adults in ways that are often quite hurtful to her.
Donaldson tells Alex about adjusting her expectations to get her first feature made, working with her incredible cast, telling a story about a child of divorce, shooting outdoors in a remote area, and more.
The film premiered at Sundance before screening at the Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Fortnight sidebar.
The film is now in theatres in the US and Canada.
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Toronto film critic Nathalie Atkinson joins Alex Heeney to discuss their latest obsession -- Amazon Prime's swashbuckling fantasy series, My Lady Jane -- and why we can't stop thinking about it. From husbands that are sometimes horses, to intimacy coordination by Ita O'Brien (Normal People), to an incredible cast (Edward Bluemel!), the show is a whole lot of fun with impressive craft behind it.
The limited series reimagines the story of Lady Jane Grey, the Tudor Queen who, at age 16, was queen for nine days. The show asks, what could have happened if Lady Jane lasted a little bit longer, had a whole lot of gumption, and also, uh…what if a bunch of people, named Ethians, could also transform into animals? The show is part romance, part adventure, part YA coming-of-ager, with an incredible supporting cast.
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Alex Heeney interviews South African director and co-writer Oliver Schmitz about the 4K restoration of his landmark 1988 film, Mapantsula. Mapantsula was the first movie about the realities of apartheid that was actually made by South Africans in South Africa.
In the press notes for, director Oliver Schmitz writes, “Mapantsula is not just a film, it is an act of defiance. It is guerilla filmmaking and a cameo of some of the best talent from South AFRICA in the 1980’s — and by that, I mean Black talent, that had been held back, had no voice, and could not speak freely. Mapantsula was a taste of freedom at a time of the worst repression in South Africa. It was a loud andclear expletive at the Apartheid Government. It was a film that should not have been made, and yet, it was.”
The film is now in theatres in the US and available to stream on BFI Player in the UK.
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