Seventh Row Podcast

We discuss two sci-fi-ish romantic comedies, Maria Schrader's I'm Your Man, which was one of our favourite films from the Berlinale earlier this year, and Richard Curtis' About Time, about which we have complicated feelings. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and staff writer Lena Wilson. Show Notes:

• Read Alex's review of I'm Your Man
• Register for The Seventh Circle, a symposium on gender, sexuality, and disability in horror cinema.
• Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier

Related Episodes:

• Ep. 110: Brief encounters: Weekend and End of the Century
• Ep. 92: Commodifying Women: Sugar Daddy and An Easy Girl
• Ep. 89: Coming of Age at Forty: Spinster and The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Ep. 73: Explorations of rape culture in Promising Young Woman and The Assistant (Member's Only)
• Ep. 61: Toxic male privilege in The Riot Club and What Richard Did (Member's Only)

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We discuss Raw and Thelma, two classics of modern horror from directors who both have exciting new films on the festival circuit. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe. Show Notes

• Purchase our ebook Beyond empowertainment: Feminist horror and the struggle for female agency. The book features a case study on Thelma, featuring an essay and interviews with Trier, co-writer Eskil Vogt, and cinematographer Jakob Ihre. Read excerpts here.
• Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier
• 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. 109: TIFF 2021, part 1
• Ep. 107: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction in Another Round and Oslo, August 31st Redux
• Ep. 35: The Invisible Man and Unsane (Member's Only)
• Ep. 21: Feminist horror

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On the second of our TIFF 2021 podcasts, we discuss Power of the Dog, Ali & Ava, coming-of-age films, Midnight Madness, and more from this year's festival. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Angelo Muredda

On this episode

• Horror Symposium (2:08)
• Joachim Trier book (4:35)
• 10th anniversary of Weekend (6:30)
• How was TIFF (7:00)
• Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) (16:16)
• Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard) (29:47)
• The Platform Competition (39:23)
• Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic) (44:29)
• Earwig (Lucile Hadzihalilovic) (46:56)
• The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami) ( (52:41)
• Mothering Sunday (Eve Husson) (54:37)
• True Things (Harry Wootliff) (1:01:24)
• Encounter (Michael Pearce) (1:05:01)
• Wolf (Nathalie Biancheri) (1:05:55)
• Midnight Madness (1:11:19)
• African films (1:19:25)
• Holocaust films (1:21:48)
• Documentaries (1:27:58)
• Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid) (1:30:55)
• Conclusion (1:35:11)

Show Notes:

• Register for The Seventh Circle, a symposium on gender, sexuality, and disability in horror cinema.
• Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier
• Read our list of the best perfomances of TIFF 2021
• Read Angelo's TIFF at Film Freak Central and Cinema Scope

TIFF 2021 Reviews:

• Read Orla's review of Ali & Ava
• Read Orla's review of The Hill Where Lionesses Roar
• Read Alex's review of The Survivor
• Read Orla's review of Ahed's Knee

Related Episodes

• 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. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1 (Member's Only)
• Ep. 6: Free Solo (Member's Only)

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We finally discuss Andrew Haigh's Weekend on the podcast. To celebrate the film's 10th anniversary, we are going into detail on the film and discussing another great film about a brief encounter between gay men, End of the Century. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and staff writer Lena Wilson. Show notes

• Weekend is available on VOD, and streaming on the Criterion Channel in Canada and the US and BFI Player in the UK
• End of the Century is available on VOD, and streaming on BFI Player in the UK
• Purchase our ebook on Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete, which includes an essay on home in all of Haigh's films.
• Weekend was our 5th favourite film of the 2010s. See the other choices.
• Read our list of 25 unsung queer cinema treasures, featuring End of the Century
• Stay tuned to the site for more coverage of Weekend this week

Related episodes:

• Ep. 96: Girlhood and compulsory heterosexuality: Water Lilies and Jennifer's Body
• Ep. 94: Looking
• Ep. 91: AIDS on screen, featuring It's a Sin
• Ep. 69: Paddington and Paddington 2 (Member's Only)
• Ep. 66: Francis Lee's God's Own Country and Ammonite (Member's Only)
• Ep. 29: Films about finite romance (Member's Only)
• Ep. 7: Lean on Pete (Member's Only)

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On the first of our TIFF 2021 podcasts, we discuss the films we saw before the festival began. This includes the new film from site favourite Joachim Trier, Jack Lowden in Terence Davies' Benediction, and more This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith.

On this episode:

• Joachim Trier ebook (2:46)
• Horror symposium (5:04)
• TIFF 2021 Films covered on other podcasts (6:49)
• Why we are only covering TIFF remotely (12:51)
• The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) (19:37)
• Benediction (Terence Davies) (25:31)
• What happened to the good Canadian films at TIFF? (37:14)
• Scarborough (Shasha Nakhai & Rich Williamson) (42:29)
• Other films Orla saw (46:25)
• Other films Alex saw (49:49)
• Wrap-up (52:17)
• Conclusion (59:39)

Show notes

• Read Alex's interview with Anders Danielsen Lie on Oslo, August 31st
• Read Alex's interview with Joachim Trier on Oslo, August 31st
• Sign up for updates on the first book to ever be published on the films of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier
• Purchase our new ebook Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
• Sign up to get our daily newsletter about TIFF 2021 (until September 19)

TIFF Reviews

• Read Alex's review of Benediction
• Read Orla's review of Scarborough
• Read Orla's review of Aloners (Hong Seong-eun)
• Read Alex's interview with As in Heaven director Tea Lindeburg
• Read Alex's review of Yuni (Kamila Andini)
• Read Orla's review of Good Madam (Jenna Cato Bass)

Related Episodes

• Ep. 107: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction in Another Round and Oslo, August 31st Redux
• Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition
• Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars
• Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1 (Member's Only)

 

To commemorate the passing of Terence Davies, we are re-releasing our discussion of his film The Deep Blue Sea. It was originally published on September 8, 2021.

This week we are re-releasing our The Deep Blue Sea podcast in celebration of Terence Davies' new film, Benediction, and in memorial to Helen McRory, who passed away in April. This episode discusses two versions of Terence Ratigan's 1952 play, The Deep Blue Sea. Davies' 2011 film version is a moving portrayal of memory and Carrie Cracknell's National Theatre Live production from 2016 features strong characterization. We discuss adaptation choices, acting brilliance, how the two directors adapt the play to fit their interests, and more. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Andrew Kendall. Show Notes

• Sign up for our daily TIFF 21 newsletter (September 9-19). Discover the best new films to premiere at the festival, from buzzed-about titles like The Worst Person in the World and The Power of the Dog to under-the-radar gems nobody else is talking about.
• Read Alex on how Davies' adaptation is a memory film with an unreliable narrator.
• The Deep Blue Sea was 13th on our best of the decade list. See the other choices here.
• Read Alex on the Tom Hiddleston and the hollow charm thwarting the promise of a great actor.
• Visit our Special Issue on a A Quiet Passion page for more on Terence Davies.
• Read Alex's interview with Lone Scherfig, which includes a discussion about Helen McRory in Their Finest.
• Become a Film Adventurer Member to listen to more great episodes from our archive.

This week, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31, our favourite film of the 2010s. As part of the celebration, we are presenting a special edition of our December 2020 podcast episode, "Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction in Another Round and Oslo, August 31st." This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe. Oslo, August 31st is available on VOD, and is streaming on Kanopy in Canada

Another Round is available on VOD, and streaming on Crave in Canada and Hulu in the US

Want to go deeper on Joachim Trier?

Inside The Deep Focus: Oslo, August 31st, we'll trace his formal obsessions (like voiceover, montage, and prologues) from Oslo, August 31st to Sentimental Value.

👉Join the waitlist here.

Show Notes

• This episode is part of our week long celebration of Oslo, August 31st's 10th anniversary.
• Oslo, August 31st was our best film of the decade. Check out our other 49 selections here.
• Read Alex's essay "There is a world elsewhere: exile in Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st and Louder Than Bombs"
• Read our special issue on Louder Than Bombs, which includes a review and interviews with director Joachim Trier and cinematographer Jakob Ihre.
• Read our in-depth guide to director Joachim Trier
• We will be writing an ebook on Joachim Trier, to celebrate the release of his new film, The Worst Person in the World. It will be released early next year. Sign up here for updates

Related Episode

• Ep. 40: Dead Mothers: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece (Member's Only)

We discuss Christine and Kate Plays Christine, a fiction and documentary film about Christine Chubbuck. We ask, what's the value of telling a story in fiction versus nonfiction? This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Lena Wilson.

On this episode:

• Subjective realities (2:34)
• Why we paired these films and the Christine Chubbuck story (5:18)
• The mid-2010s trend of men making movies about how bad men oppress women (10:04)
• Christine (15:16)
• Rebecca Hall's performance (21:50)
• The strange questions the film asks (30:50)
• The Florida perspective (35:03)
• The 1970s (38:35)
• Kate Plays Christine (41:36)
• The film's ending (59:52)
• Blame on authorship and viewership (1:07:51)
• Conclusion (1:19:19)

Show Notes

• Purchase Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film for more on Robert Greene, the casting conceit in creative nonfiction, and much more.
• Purchase tickets for August 29th's livestream conversation between Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine, Bisbee ‘17) and Joe Bini (editor of twenty-seven Werner Herzog films).
• Read Alex's interview with Penny Lane about Nuts!
• Read Miriam Bale's essay in The New Republic on Christine and Kate Plays Christine

Related Episodes

• Ep. 68: Mothers struggling with addiction in Hillbilly Elegy and Down to the Bone (Member's Only)
• Ep. 67: Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris and City Hall (Member's Only)
• Ep. 12: Hail Satan? featuring director Penny Lane (Member's Only)

Seventh Row Editors Alex Heeney and Orla Smith discuss the journey of writing our new ebook, Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film. On this episode

• The book's origin story (2:22)
• What do we mean by "creative nonfiction" (8:53)
• How we put the book together (11:25)
• Editing and revising site content (12:33)
• Targeting new films and filmmakers (14:12)
• Why we focus on contemporary film (20:55)
• The book's six sections (32:19)
• The films in the book (37:01)
• What we discovered writing the book (40:39)
• The Creative nonfiction workshop (45:58)
• Conclusion (49:44)

Show notes

• Pre-order the book
• Visit our Lockdown film school page to view some past sessions and find information on upcoming sessions, including one with Robert Greene and Joe Bini
• Read six filmmakers, from Penny Lane to Kirsten Johnson, weigh in on the question, what do you call your nonfiction film?
• Read our survey of fifteen critics and filmmakers on the films that changed how they thought about documentary.

Related episodes

• Ep. 99: Creative Nonfiction with Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen

This episode presents our June masterclass with Agnieszka Holland. She discusses her body of work, what drives her, and her newest film, Charlatan. This episode was recorded as a conversation between Holland, Editor-In-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith in June 2021 as part of our Lockdown Film School series. Read the shownotes.

Related Episodes:

• Ep. 93: The films of Agnieszka Holland
• Ep. 55: Comparing adaptations of The Secret Garden (Member's Only)