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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155. Halina Reijn's Babygirl with Lindsay Pugh
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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 ------- Woman in Revolt Editor-in-Chief joins Alex to discuss Halina Reijn's Babygirl, a movie we liked but didn't love but we think is worth digging into. Nicole Kidman stars as Romy, a high-powered CEO ma…
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154. Three key ingredients to a great year of movies
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***Want help to sit down and make those tough decisions about what you're going to watch this year? Join the Curate Your 2025 Watchlist Workshop on January 12. Sign up here: http://seventh-row.com/watchlist ------- In this episode, Alex discusses what makes a truly remarkable year of movies, beyond just watching as many films as possible. Alex shar…
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153. Maura Delpero's Vermiglio: A film about systems of knowledge in rural Italy at the end of WWII
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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 ------- Today on the podcast, Alex discusses the new Italian film from Maura Delpero, Vermiglio, set in a remote village in the Italian Alps at the end of WWII. It's Delpero's second feature, which won the …
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152. 3 Reasons You Need A Curated Watchlist for 2025
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Happy New Year! If you want 2025 to be the year you watch good movies, the secret to success is a curated watchlist. It's the best way to make sure that reaching for what's easy will be synonymous with reaching for films you actually want to see — including films that might have felt like aspirational achievements you'll never reach. In this episod…
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151. Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name
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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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