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Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh - Seventh Row Film Podcast

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.
Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh

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.
Berlinale Interview: Philippe Lesage on Comme le feu (Who by Fire)

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.
MOMI First Look 2025: Elementary, Tata, When the Phone Rang

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.
Film Review: Charles Burnett's The Annihilation of Fish

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.
What to see (and skip) at the 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

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

The 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Film at Lincoln Centre’s annual showcase of some of the best francophone films, features many small gems of the festival circuit, including This Life of Mine, Foreign Language, Winter in Sokcho, and When Fall is Coming. Discover more great films from the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter.
Ep. 159 Macbeth with David Tennant + why I recommend recorded Shakespeare

2 months ago | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

In this episode of the podcast, Alex recommends the new Donmar Warehouse production of Macbeth starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, which screens in cinemas this weekend. She also discusses the value of recorded Shakespeare more generally and why you should make this production a priority. This weekend, you can catch a recording of the 2024 Donmar Warehouse production of Macbeth starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, directed by Max Webster.
Ep. 157 myfrenchfilmfestival: A Real Job, No Love Lost, and Through the Night

Jan 24, 2025 | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

In this episode of the podcast, Alex discusses three reasons to check out myfrenchfilmfestival, the online and worldwide celebration of French cinema, and three movies to watch: A Real Job, No Love Lost, and Through The Night. The worldwide online French film festival, myfrenchfilmfestival, is happening now until February 17, 2025, and it’s a can’t-miss event. Alex has been attending since 2017 and has been recommending the festival annually to Seventh Row Newsletter subscribers.
Interview: Tarsem Singh on the 4K restoration of The Fall

Sep 23, 2024 | seventh-row.com | C.J. Prince

We interview filmmaker Tarsem Singh about his self-funded epic film The Fall (2006), which has been newly restored in 4K for a streaming premiere on MUBI worldwie on September 27. Singh discusses the film’s divisive response, a years-long battle to release the film, and its passionate cult following. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter. It’s difficult to talk about Tarsem Singh’s The Fall without addressing the extraordinary story of its creation.
TIFF 2024 Film Review: Tumpal Tampubolon's Crocodile Tears

Sep 19, 2024 | seventh-row.com | Alex Heeney

Alex Heeney reviews Crocodile Tears, a genre-inflected first feature film about a toxic mother-son relationship, from Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon. The film is one of the best sales titles at TIFF 2024. Read all of our TIFF 2024 coverage. Click here to sign up for the Seventh Row Newsletter.