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December 08, 2021118: The Souvenir Part I and II
Joanna Hogg calls The Souvenir Part II "a film about the making of Part I." Back in 2019, we wrote an ebook about the making of Part I. On this episode, find out how Part II changes how we see Part I and builds Julie's character arc. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Fiona Underhill.
On this episode

Fiona Underhill, The Souvenir superfan (1:08)

Tour of Memories (4:14)

Related episodes (8:38)

Synopses (15:19)

How does Part II change how we see Part I (23:14)

Julie's arc as an artist and a character (33:44)

The ensemble (53:10)

Where does Joanna Hogg go next? (1:03:04)

The costumes (1:05:22)

Julie's parents (1:14:30)

Honor Swinton Byrne (1:20:22)

The sound design (1:24:06)

Hogg's other films (1:25:38)

Conclusion (1:37:10)

Show notes:

Our ebook Tour of memories: The creative process behind Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir provides the trademark Seventh Row 360-degree view of Hogg's filmmaking process on The Souvenir. Read interviews with all of Hogg's key behind the lens collaborators, several of whom have been working with her since her first film, Unrelated.

Purchase our ebook Portraits of resistance: The cinema of Céline Sciamma

Watch our Lockdown Film School session with The Souvenir production designer Stéphane Collonge (and Suzie Davies)

Watch our Lockdown Film School session with The Souvenir costume designer Grace Snell (and April Napier)

Read Fiona's review of The Souvenir Part II on Jumpcut Online

Read Fiona's interview with Joanna Hogg on Jumpcut Online

Related episodes

Ep. 114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island

Ep. 69: Paddington and Paddington 2 (Member's Only)

Ep. 44: Shirley and portraits of female artists (Member's Only)

Ep. 14: The Souvenir and the films of Joanna Hogg

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1 hr 46 min
December 06, 2021 Announcement: The Seventh Circle returns
Tickets for The Seventh Circle: A Symposium on Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Horror Cinema, have reopened for one week only! Get your ticket before Sunday at midnight. Purchase at http://seventh-row.com/seventh-circle

50% discount code: SeventhCircleDec21 (expires Friday Dec 10th at midnight EST).

11 min
December 01, 2021B18: Titane (excerpt)
We loved Julia Ducournau's Raw. On this episode, find out what we think about her follow-up, the Palme d'Or winning Titane. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe. It is a sequel to Episode 112: The modern female monsters of Raw and Thelma.
Content warning: This episode discusses body mutilation.

Titane is available on VOD in Canada and the USA. It will be out in January in the UK.

Show notes

Read Mary Angela's 2017 review of Raw

Read a preview of Orla's essay on sisterhood in Raw from Beyond Empowertainment.

Related Episodes

Ep. 103: Pascal Plante's films: Fake Tattoos and Nadia Butterfly

Ep. 101: Magnus von Horn's films: The Here After and Sweat

Ep. 80: Motherhood in horror: The Babadook and Prevenge (Member's Only)

Ep. 69: Paddington and Paddington 2 (Member's Only)

Ep. 66: Francis Lee's God's Own Country and Ammonite (Member's Only)

Ep. 21: Feminist horror

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17 min
November 24, 2021117: The North Water
This episode focuses on site favourite Andrew Haigh's newest project, The North Water, starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell. We discuss how this on-the-surface unusual work fits into Haigh's thematic interests. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Fiona Underhill. It also features an excerpt from Alex's interview with Andrew Haigh.
On This Episode:

Intro (1:05)

Why did Andrew Haigh do this series? (16:42)

Andrew Haigh on upending expectations in his work (28:11)

Who is the real evil? Drax, Cavendish, and Baxter (35:01)

What does it mean to be civilized (45:12)

Sumner and Drax as mirrors (51:51)

The episodic structure (1:00:03)

The Inuit characters (1:20:01)

The lack of promotion for the series (1:27:27)

Conclusion (1:32:55)

Show Notes:

Visit our Directors We Love page on Andrew Haigh, collecting all of our articles and podcasts about his film and television work

Check out MovieJawn magazine for Fiona's article on The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, starring a young Tom Courtenay

Purchase our ebook on Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete

Purchase our ebook on Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir

Related episodes

Ep. 110: Brief encounters: Weekend and End of the Century

Ep. 94: Looking

Ep. 91: AIDS on screen, featuring It's a Sin

Ep. 69: Paddington and Paddington 2

Ep. 53: Boys State and First Stripes

Ep. 32: Sorry We Missed You and Peterloo

Ep. 7: Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete

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1 hr 43 min
November 17, 2021B17: Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle in The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre (Excerpt)
The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre was live streamed from October 27-30. We chat about Saoirse Ronan's and James McArdle's dynamite performances, the show's staging, and its attempts to give livestreamed theatre a cinematic look. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe
Show notes:

Read Alex's review of Ammonite

Read Alex's review of Ralph Fiennes in Richard III at the Almeida, directed by Rupert Goold

Listen to the 21st Folio episode discussing the Almeida Theatre's 2012 production of King Lear starring Jonathan Pryce and directed by Michael Attenborough

Read Alex's review of the 2015 Stratford Festival production of Hamlet

Read Alex's review of Justin Kurzel's Macbeth

Listen to the 21st Folio episode discussing Kurzel's Macbeth

Related Episodes

Ep. 98: Angels in America

Ep. 66: Francis Lee's God's Own Country and Ammonite (Member's Only)

Ep. 60: Old Vic In Camera Productions: Three Kings and Faith Healer (Member's Only)

Ep. 49: Split-screen storytelling: Lungs: In Camera and Conversations With Other Women (Member's Only)

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19 min
November 10, 2021116: Virtual film festivals: Taking stock of their past, present, and future
Alex and Orla are joined by critic and programmer C. J. Prince to examine the future of virtual film festivals from the perspectives of critics, distributors, festival programmers, and new audiences. On this episode

Introduction (1:02)

The different formats of virtual film festivals (3:00)

Berlin as the model virtual film festival (10:45)

Virtual film festivals as a way to build festival reputation (15:52)

Geoblocking and distribution issues (19:02)

COVID Corner (24:24)

The programmer perspective on virtual film festivals (38:14)

Re-imagining the value and future of a film festival (49:30)

Virtual film festivals and accessibility (1:05:16)

Wrap-up (1:11:21)

Show Notes

Read C. J.'s list of the ten best shorts from TIFF 2021

Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier

Related Episodes

Ep. 111: TIFF 2021, part 2

Ep. 109: TIFF 2021, part 1

Ep. 102: Cannes 2021

Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition (Member’s Only)

Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars (Member’s Only)

Ep. 79: Sundance 2021, Part 2 (Member’s Only)

Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1 (Member’s Only)

Ep. 59: A look back at TIFF 2020, part 2 (Member’s Only)

Ep. 58: A look back at TIFF 2020, part 1 (Member’s Only)

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1 hr 40 min
November 05, 2021 Announcement on Our New Podcast Format
We are making a few changes to our podcast schedule
8 min
November 03, 2021B16: Watching Lena Dunham's Girls in 2021 (Excerpt)
Our new podcast format with member's only bonus episodes every second week debuts. Alex interviews Orla about what it's like watching Girls separated from the weekly episode discourse. Alex and Orla discuss the difficult of reading shows with empathy for terrible people, great acting, and the difference between Hana and Lena Dunham. Show notes:

You can listen to our first 15 bonus episodes by becoming a Seventh Row member

Read Alex's 2017 review of Paterson

Read Alex's 2016 review of City of Tiny Lights

Related Episodes

Ep. 97: The Films and TV of Desiree Akhavan

Ep. 94: Looking

Ep. 73: Explorations of rape culture in Promising Young Woman and The Assistant (Member's Only)

Ep. 54: Kris Rey's thirtysomethings: I Used to Go Here and Unexpected (Member's Only)

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17 min
October 27, 2021115: Revisiting The English Patient 25 years later
We revisit The English Patient on its 25th anniversary and consider its complicated legacy. The episode features two first-timers and two superfans. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Andrew Kendall On this episode:

The English Patient and its reviled Oscar legacy (7:10)

The state of modern literary adaptations (15:50)

Why we like the film (21:40)

Almásy and Katherine/Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas (24:53)

Hana and Kip/Juliette Binoche and Naveen Andrews (53:51)

The English Patient as a war movie (1:04:22)

Stand out scenes (1:14:20)

Adaptation (1:23:29)

Caravaggio/Willem Dafoe and alternate castings (1:27:12)

Minghella's other work (1:47:05)

Conclusion (1:57:37)

Joachim Trier announcement (1:57:52)

Podcast format change (2:00:59)

Show notes

Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier

Related episodes

Ep. 108: The Deep Blue Sea(s) Redux

Ep. 107: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction in Another Round and Oslo, August 31st Redux

Ep. 100: Films for the future

Ep. 76: Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and Timbuktu (Member's Only)

Ep. 29: Films about finite romance (Member's Only)

Ep. 28: 1917 and Jarhead — Sam Mendes' war films

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2 hr 9 min
October 20, 2021114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island
We discuss French director Mia Hansen-Løve's newest film Bergman Island and her 2016 film, Things to Come. We analyze both films' shared themes of women in existential crises, the passage of time, and the speed of change. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Lindsay Pugh. Show notes

Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier

Read Elena Lazic's interview with Mia Hansen-Løve about her 2019 film Maya

Read Lindsay Pugh's discussion of Vicky Krieps and Mia Wasikowska in Bergman Island

Bergman Island was our 4th favourite film of TIFF 2021. See the other 19 choices here.

Related Episodes

Ep. 109: TIFF 2021, part 1

Ep. 103: Pascal Plante's Films: Fake Tattoos and Nadia Butterfly

Ep. 44: Shirley and portraits of female artists (Member's only)

Ep. 27: Comparing Little Women adaptations

Ep. 21: Feminist horror

Ep. 14: The Souvenir and the films of Joanna Hogg

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1 hr 53 min

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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.