Alex Heeney

4 weeks ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

On the podcast, Alex recommends Alain Guiraudie’s film Misericordia and delves deep into the film’s compelling opening scene. Today, Alex Heeney recommends Alain Guiraudie’s multi-César-nominated LGBTQ+ erotic thriller, Misericordia. Misericordia takes many twists and turns that she doesn’t want to spoil. So Alex introduces the film briefly before delving into what we can learn from the opening sequence.

1 month ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

On the podcast, Alex recommends Steven Soderbergh’s new film, Black Bag, and discusses why she’s been a Soderbergh fan for 25 years. It’s not very often that we get a movie for adults that’s smart and fun and screening theatrically. But Steven Soderbergh’s London-set spy thriller Black Bag opened in North American cinemas last weekend. The film features major stars like Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender and major lesser-known talents like Tom Burke and Naomie Harris.

1 month ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

In this interview, Québécois filmmaker Philippe Lesage discusses his new Berlinale Generation 14plus film Comme le feu (Who by Fire), one of the best films of 2025. Read our interview with Lesage on Les démons, his first narrative film. Read our interview with Lesage on Genèse and our in-depth exploration of the film through interviews and essays in The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook Discover more great films from the Berlinale. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter.

1 month ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

MOMI’s 2025 First Look Festival celebrates adventurous cinema, with highlights including the documentaries Elementary (Claire Simon) and Tata, as well as the docufiction When the Phone Rang. Discover other festival highlights hereClick here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter. First Look, the Museum of the Moving Image’s annual showcase of “adventurous new cinema” runs this week from March 12–16.

1 month ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

Alex Heeney reviews the 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 screwball comedy The Annihilation of Fish, which had been buried after its premiere. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter. The new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 late-in-life screwball comedy The Annihilation of Fish offers this worthy film a new lease on life, much like its characters.