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A biweekly (during seasons) podcast about socially progressive movies that matter. Become a member to access the full (200+ episode) podcast archive and get early access to new episodes: http://seventh-row.com/join Upending 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 Haig ...
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***Join the Seventh Row newsletter to stay updated and find out about more great under-the-radar character dramas: http://email.seventh-row.com ------- 2024 has been a landmark year for Luca Guadagnino, with the release of his tennis drama Challengers and his adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Queer. As these films garner attention, Alex Heeney ta…
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150. How I got interested in Indigenous films from Australia feat. Ivan Sen's Limbo
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***Join the Seventh Row newsletter to stay updated and find out about more great under-the-radar character dramas: http://email.seventh-row.com ------- One of Alex's deep cuts of 2024 is Limbo, an Australian film by Indigenous writer-director-cinematographer Ivan Sen. It's one of her top 3 films of the year. Fewer than 4000 people have logged it on…
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149. The key to great character dramas + The Girl with the Needle (feat. Magnus von Horn)
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***Join the Seventh Row newsletter to stay updated and find out about more great under-the-radar character dramas: http://email.seventh-row.com ------- What separates a good character drama from a great character drama is a film that actually places the character in a very particular context — a place, a culture, a group of people — so we understan…
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148. How I almost missed the best film of the 2010s...and what I learned.
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** Doors are now open for Reel Ruminators: Explorer, an annual membership which curates 12 incredible films you may have missed. ** Find out more here: http://seventh-row.com/explorer ------- In 2011, I came very, very close to never seeing the movie that would be my favourite film of the 2010s. So that got me thinking... What makes us willing to t…
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147. Why is it so hard to see the new Cillian Murphy movie?
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** Doors are now open for Reel Ruminators: Explorer, an annual membership which curates 12 incredible films you may have missed. ** Find out more here: http://seventh-row.com/explorer ** Or purchase your membership now: http://reelruminators.com/payment ------- Last week on the podcast, Alex recommended the Cillian Murphy Irish drama Small Things L…
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146. Small Things Like These: the Cillian Murphy drama you don't want to miss
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On today’s episode, Alex recommends the Cillian Murphy Irish drama Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants. Based on the novella by Claire Keegan, the film addresses a dark chapter of Irish history from a side angle: the story of a man who realizes he can no longer be silently complicit in the abuse of unwed mothers by the Catholic Church…
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145. From the Archive: Steve McQueen's Small Axe
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On the occasion of the release of Steve McQueen's Blitz, we're bringing back our 2020 episode on his five BBC films about the Windrush Generation, Small Axe. With Blitz, McQueen returns to telling stories of Black British history. This episode was originally published on December 30, 2020. We discuss each film (or episode?) of McQueen's series and …
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TIFF 24 #10: Marianne Elliott on The Salt Path and directing for stage vs. screen
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**To join the waitlist for Reel Ruminators: A Movie-of-the-Month Discussion Club, visit http://seventh-row.com/reelruminators ** Legendary theatre director Marianne Elliott (Angels in America at the National Theatre, gender-swapped Company, War Horse) joins Alex on the podcast to discuss her feature film debut, The Salt Path. The film is based on t…
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144. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) - Alt programming for Conclave
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On today’s episode, Alex recommends alternative programming to the newly released Oscar-tipped Conclave, with another film about a new pope: Nanni Moretti’s 2011 film We Have a Pope. It’s fun and funny, a backstage movie that's still aware of the audience, and full of rich characters with actual motivations. Seeing Conclave made me wish I had been …
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TIFF 2024 #9: Brady Corbet's The Brutalist with Angelo Muredda
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Toronto-based film critic Angelo Muredda joins Alex Heeney to discuss Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, a four-hour fictional biopic about a brutalist architect and Holocaust survivor adjusting to life in post-war America. The film is Directorial Choices: The Movie. It won the Best Director Prize at the Venice Film Festival, but we had a lot of issues …
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TIFF 24 #8: Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical The End with Angelo Muredda
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**Are you interested in discovering extraordinary under-the-radar movies and discussing them with a community of film lovers?** **Sign up for the Reel Ruminators (Free Trial), by visiting https://email.seventh-row.com/trial. The discussion will happen on October 13 at 12 p.m. EST. ** Toronto-based film critic Angelo Muredda joins Alex Heeney to dis…
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143. The Old Man and the Land and the line between cinema and radio play
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**To sign up for the Reel Ruminators (Free Trial), visit https://email.seventh-row.com/trial.** In this episode, Alex Heeney discusses the new independent British film The Old Man and the Land, which was just released in the U.K. The film is told almost entirely as a series of voicemails from a farmer's two adult children (played by Rory Kinnear an…
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TIFF 24 #7: Luca Guadagnino's Queer with Angelo Muredda
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**To sign up for the Reel Ruminators (Free Trial), visit https://email.seventh-row.com/trial.** 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. …
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TIFF 24 #6: Ralph Fiennes x 2: The Return and Conclave
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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 …
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TIFF 24 #5: Bicultural daughters and their absent fathers: My Father's Daughter, Winter in Sokcho, and A Missing Part
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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 qu…
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TIFF24 #4: British social realism - Andrea Arnold's Bird and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
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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 th…
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TIFF 24 #3: Sports movies for people who don't like sports movies
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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: Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet – B…
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