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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/
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- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
195. Queen at Sea with Lindsay Pugh: How Lance Hammer makes it hard to take sides in a family's dementia care dilemma.
What happens when trying to protect someone makes their situation worse? In Lance Hammer's Queen at Sea, Juliette Binoche plays a woman who discovers her stepfather (Tom Courtenay) having sex with her mother, who has advanced dementia. She calls the police, setting off a series of interventions that may do more harm than good. Alex Heeney and returning guest Lindsay Pugh discuss how the film's framing, long takes, and performances shape our judgments of its characters, and how it depicts the complications of care. Links and further listening November 19: Free live event on how courtroom dramas shape our judgments, ahead of Alex's new program On Trial. Register here. Related episodes: 45 Years (episode 177), Tender Loving Care (episode 194), and abortion on screen. Coming soon: Elsinore with Angelo Muredda, Sophie Fiennes on Acting, and more TIFF coverage. Get in touch: contact@seventh-row.com Stay in the loop about upcoming film programs: http://email.seventh-row.com
- Oct 1, 202630 min
194. Tender Loving Care: Mike Leigh's wonderful film about what care can and can't do
Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care is a film about kind and empathetic people being kind and empathetic. And how rare is that? In this episode, Alex Heeney asks what tender loving care actually looks like in the film — between friends, family members, and social workers and the people they care for — and what that care can and can't do. Alex digs into the scenes and filmmaking choices that illuminate those relationships, including the film's use of domestic spaces, what Leigh keeps offscreen, Jacqueline Durran's costumes, recurring scenes of singing, and the opening and closing shots that complicate the film's take on care. Alex's upcoming film programs: The Deep Focus: The Worst Person in the World starts October 8. The Long Take returns in November for the first time in a year. Get invited to upcoming programs and free events: Tell me where to reach you at email.seventh-row.com More from Seventh Row: Peterloo in Process, Alex's book about Mike Leigh's filmmaking process: mikeleighbook.com Hard Truths podcast episode Questions? contact@seventh-row.com Instagram: @SeventhRow
- Sep 14, 202614 min
193. TIFF: Why Stuffed, the taxidermy romance starring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling, needed to be a musical
What happens when a lonely taxidermist looking for her first human subject meets a lonely man willing to volunteer for the job? Apparently, you get a musical romance. In this episode, I'm talking about Theo Rhys's Stuffed, starring Jodie Comer as taxidermist Araminta and Harry Melling as Bernie, which had its world premiere at TIFF. The songs themselves may not be particularly memorable, but Stuffed does something I'm always hoping a movie musical will do: it actually has a reason to be a musical. I dig into how the film uses song to connect Araminta and Bernie before they've even met, to give us access to feelings they struggle to communicate to each other, and — perhaps most interestingly — when it decides not to let them sing. Plus: why I nearly walked out of this two-hour taxidermy musical several times…and why I kept sitting back down. Want to join me for my upcoming free online event on The Worst Person in the World? We'll dig into how the film lets it dawn on us that it's dawning on Julie that her life no longer fits. 👉 Join my email list at http://email.seventh-row.com, and I'll send you an invitation.
- Jun 20, 20261h 8m
192. At the Place of Ghosts with director Bretten Hannam
Some critics have approached At the Place of Ghosts as either a horror movie or a psychological drama and found it wanting on those terms. But what if that's the wrong question? What if the more interesting question is what the film's horror elements allow it to do? In this episode, Alex Heeney explores how writer-director Bretten Hannam uses ghosts, hauntings, and a forest where memories persist to connect personal trauma to larger histories—and to imagine healing through relationships with family, ancestors, and the land. Then Alex sits down with Hannam to discuss Indigenous storytelling traditions, genre filmmaking, and the making of one of my favourite films of the year. Bretten Hannam is a Two-Spirit L'nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia) where they were raised. If you're interested in learning more about The Long Arc, check out episode 191: Great films ask for more than a binge. You can also find all the details on our website: 👉 Learn more about The Long Arc here You can reach Alex on Instagram @SeventhRow or via email at contact@seventh-row.com, if you have any questions.
- Jun 18, 202613 min
191. Great TV asks for more than a binge
Why do some shows keep rewarding us years later? And is there a way to make those rewards come sooner — without having to get older or rewatch ad infinitum? In this episode, Alex introduces The Long Arc, a new 10-week experience built around the first season of HBO's Looking. She walks through what a typical week looks like, how the live sessions work, why each participant follows a different thread through the season, and how spending time with the same show—and the same group of people—changes the way you watch. The first season of The Long Arc begins June 30. 👉 Learn more about The Long Arc here You can reach Alex on Instagram @SeventhRow or via email at contact@seventh-row.com, if you have any questions.
- Apr 2, 202612 min
190. Oslo, August 31st: Beginning and Ending (Deep Focus preview)
Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st starts with a sequence that doesn't advance the plot — and yet shifts how you watch the entire film — and ends with a sequence with almost no dialogue but a lot happens. They're sequences I've returned to again and again over 14 years to figure out how they work — and keep discovering something new that shifts how I see the film. In this episode, Joachim Trier talks about the problem the opening was trying to solve, Eskil Vogt talks about the challenges of writing the ending, and I talk about the pleasures of digging into them. This month, I'll be hosting in-depth workshops on the opening and the ending of Oslo, August 31st as part of The Deep Focus. 👉 Find out more about The Deep Focus
- Mar 17, 202639 min
189. Berlinale: a Sámi musical, a queer Black South African film, and an 1800s queer period drama
Some of the best, most boundary-pushing cinema at the Berlinale is quietly tucked away in the sidebars where most of the press never look. In today's episode, I'm looking at three films that feel like a step forward for women's stories: Arrú: A Sámi musical from Norway Black Burns Fast: A queer South African coming-of-age story directed by a Black woman The Education of Jane Cumming: A Scottish period drama based on the first documented legal case involving accusations of lesbians in the UK Taken together, these show how filmmakers are finding new ways to dramatize the systems shaping women's lives — from colonial land politics to the legacy of apartheid to the class and racial hierarchies of the 19th century. 👉 Curious about joining one of my film programs? Get on the waitlist here. I only open a few a year, and they're limited enrollment, so this is the best way to ensure you get first dibs on a spot.
- Feb 17, 202613 min
188. My Berlinale talk: Why the first conversation about a film shouldn't be the last
This episode was originally recorded for a panel at the Berlinale Film Festival called Let's talk about (short) films! Pluralistic Discourse in Film Criticism. I was invited to speak about the online film programs I've been building for thinking and talking about film — where we don't just share opinions about a film and move on. Instead, we're looking for something new: what does this film offer that I didn't notice the first time? Because you don't need to wait for a major life change to see a film differently. Sometimes, all you need is a new question, a new lens, or the chance to look again with other curious people. In this episode, I walk through some of the ways I structure those conversations to be places to explore ideas and discover something new. And the best part? You don't need to be a film expert. You just need to be willing to notice something — even if it feels obvious — and let the group carry the torch from there. Curious about joining the next film program? 👉 Join the waitlist to find out when the next one opens
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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/
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