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Margot Harrison

Burlington

Associate Editor at Seven Days

I'm associate editor at Seven Days, Vermont's alt weekly news and culture source, and write about books and film. My YA author alter-ego is @MargotFHarrison.

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  • 1 week ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    new in theaters THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND: A lottery winner hires his favorite folk musicians for a private performance in this comedy starring Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan. James Griffiths directed. (99 min, PG-13. Savoy) ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL: A funeral in Zambia become an occasion for unearthing family secrets in this dark comedy from Rungano Nyoni, starring Susan Chardy and Elizabeth Chisela. (99 min, PG-13.

  • 1 week ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge Looking for an uncommon take on small-town life? While the autumnal mountain village depicted in Misericordia could sometimes be mistaken for Vermont, you'll find no folksy stereotypes in this movie that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was named the top film of 2024 by Cahiers du Cinéma. Writer-director Alain Guiraudie made waves in France's gay cinema with 2013's Stranger by the Lake.

  • 2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge new in theaters THE AMATEUR: Rami Malek plays a CIA tech guy who becomes an action guy after terrorists kill his wife in this spy thriller from James Hawes ("Slow Horses"). With Rachel Brosnahan. (123 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Stowe) DROP: A widow (Meghann Fahy) on a date starts getting threatening messages from an unknown number in this thriller directed by Christopher Landon (Freaky). (100 min, PG-13.

  • 2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge This week, I caught two Oscar-nominated films I'd missed in theaters, both now streaming, that explore different sides of what it means to produce art in front of an audience. A Complete Unknown (Disney+, Hulu, rentable) tells the story of one of the most celebrated singer-songwriters of the century, while Sing Sing (Max, rentable) profiles a troupe of thespians who really were, until this movie, close to unknown.

  • 3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Margot Harrison

    click to enlarge new in theaters EEPHUS: In this comedy drama from Carson Lund, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, an amateur baseball team plays its last game before its field is demolished. Keith William Richards, Bill "Spaceman" Lee and Frederick Wiseman star. (99 min, NR.

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Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
5 Jul 21

This was a great conversation!

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John Odum @jodum

Latest installment of https://t.co/S5SmHrnVp5 has @sevendaysvt @margot7d talking the #strongfemalecharacter movie "stock character," women in horror, and more.

Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
15 Jan 21

RT @hh_matt: "In the wake of the ...attack on the U.S. Capitol, some readers may ... feel disinclined to have a lighthearted laugh at anti-…

Margot Harrison
Margot Harrison @margot7d
26 Aug 20

I wrote about Vermont's "summer of the drive-in" for @sevendaysvt. For a taste of this summer ritual, a little different and a little more essential in 2020, watch the video from @StuckInVermont. https://t.co/zU9TSGgTUc