Hello Reader, Venice Jury-Prize Winner Green Border is expanding across North America, and it's one of the very best films of 2024. I talked to legendary director Agnieszka Holland on the latest episode of the podcast. Holland discusses why she wanted to make the film, how it’s in conversation with her other work, and why she chose to shoot it in black and white. Green Border is about the ongoing migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border and the horrors happening there. Holland tells the...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Hope you're having a fabulous weekend! I wanted to put a new film on your radar for fans of feminist horror films. Lena Wilson's glowing review of The Devil's Bath persuaded me to watch the film this weekend, and I'm delighted that this is a rare slow-burn psychological horror film -- though with more stomach-churning images than I could personally tolerate without some breaks! Lena and I were both big admirers of the filmmakers' Goodnight Mommy, and this is another film in...
20 days ago • 1 min read
,Hello Reader, You are receiving this as a paying subscriber to The Globetrotting Watchlist (which includes Film Adventurer and Cinephile Members), a monthly newsletter that helps you expand your cinematic horizons through streaming recommendations for the best socially progressive under-the-radar films worldwide. Your support helps us pay our expenses to keep Seventh Row, a non-profit, ad-free and online. What's Inside the Globetrotting Newsletter This month, I'm recommending: Incredible...
21 days ago • 7 min read
Hello Reader, I've been talking to fellow movie lovers recently and finding that we're all struggling to pick a great movie to watch and actually watch it. There are so many choices, and we don't want to be the only ones watching the movie. So instead, we end up watching the latest zeitgeist movie that isn't really for us, streaming something we didn't really want to watch, or just not being able to pick, so we watch nothing at all. I realized you might be having this problem, too. So I’m...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, This year's Sundance hit Ghostlight is rolling out to cinemas across the US and Canada. To celebrate, I talked to the co-directors on the podcast. A few years ago, Alex Thompson directed the wonderful Saint Frances, written by and starring Kelly O'Sullivan. The film was a wonderful thirtysomething coming-of-ager featuring a thoughtful abortion subplot. Despite premiering at SXSW, it felt like a Sundance film, only better than almost everything that had premiered at that level at...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, I'm so excited to share our new profile of Canadian filmmaking legend Patricia Rozema by Lena Wilson. If you've been following us for a while, you may know we championed her last film, Mouthpiece. It's finally available on Blu-ray c/o Kino Lorber, along with her two earlier films newly restored in 4K — White Room and When Night is Falling — which until now you could only watch if you lived in a Canadian city with a great library system. To celebrate, we profiled Patricia Rozema,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, We're giving away FREE digital copies (Canada only) of one of the best films of 2024 so far: Ivan Sen's Indigenous Australian noir, Limbo. Vortex Media has just released Limbo in Canada today. It's also available on VOD in Australia/US. Director Ivan Sen’s (Mystery Road, Goldstone) latest foray into the detective genre, Limbo, places a white cop, Travis (Simon Baker), at the centre of an investigation to re-open a twenty-year-old case about the disappearance of an Indigenous...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, You are receiving this as a paying subscriber to The Globetrotting Watchlist (which includes Members), a monthly newsletter that helps you expand your cinematic horizons through streaming recommendations for the best socially progressive under-the-radar films worldwide. Your support helps us pay our expenses to keep Seventh Row, a non-profit, ad-free and online. What's Inside the Globetrotting Newsletter This month, I'm recommending: Australian Noir: One of my top five films of...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Ten years ago today, Céline Sciamma's Girlhood had its world premiere as the opening night film at the Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Fortnight section. I was there! And I knew I was seeing something very special. Fast-forward half a year, and I interviewed Sciamma about the film at Sundance. You can read the full 2015 interview is in our book Portraits of resistance: The Cinema of Céline Sciamma. Here's an excerpt that was life-changing for me. I think it's a profound...
2 months ago • 1 min read