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Beyond the Oscars: Your gateway to world cinema begins in March
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Hello Reader, Contrary to popular belief, when Oscar season ends, good movie season begins. The 3-4 month window after the Oscars and before summer movie season is when 90% of the year’s best movies get released. Today on the podcast, film critic C.J. Prince of Acquired Cinema joins Alex to look back on the wide variety of excellent international movies that have been released right after the Oscars during this window. We explain some of the attributes that define these films, which are diverse demographically (e.g., women, LGBTQ+, Indigenous), as well as diverse in content and form. We discover that it’s a challenge to package these films into neat categories for listeners because what makes these films so interesting is that they don’t fit neatly into pre-defined genres and categories. E.g., they’re period pieces that aren’t conventional period pieces. They’re quiet, contemplative films that may be ambitious but low-budget. Episode 160: How the Oscars affect the international films you hear aboutHappy watching/listening! Alex
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Seventh Row is a nonprofit Canadian film criticism publication and publishing house. We're dedicated to helping you expand your horizons by curating the best socially progressive films from around the world and helping you think deeply about them. This newsletter is run by Seventh Row (http://seventh-row.com) but features exclusive content not found on the website.
Hello Reader, Even if you don’t care about the Oscars, what’s considered Oscar-worthy deeply impacts what films you hear about. Because arthouse and international distributors divide films into two categories: movies they think can win Oscars and movies that can’t. Oscar movies get massive marketing budgets, come out in the fall, and screen for months. So you hear about them. The rest get dumped in the spring and summer, and they might not even tell the press the films exist, no matter how...
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 bes'st 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: 20 years of...
Hello Reader, Two of my favourite Hamlets -- David Tennant and Cush Jumbo -- starred in a production of Macbeth last year at the Donmar Warehouse. Fortunately, thanks to the gods of recorded theatre, you can now watch a recording of the production in cinemas this weekend. Most major cities have screenings on Sunday. Some cities have additional screenings. Find screenings in your area here. Why this production Tennant is one of the great Shakespearean actors working today. He's given...