A weekly film podcast that helps you have a more rewarding experience watching movies by connecting you to the best under-the-radar films from around the world so that you don't have to watch all the movies to watch good movies that expand your cinematic horizons — both in content and form. This is a podcast about those films, the joys and challenges of finding and watching those films, how filmmaking choices affect our experience of them, and the people and places we discover through looking outside the mainstream and beyond the English language. Our mission is to upend the canon to be more inclusive by spotlighting and diving deep into international and independent films by and about women, Indigenous People, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized groups. Find multiple episodes on the films of Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Andrew Haigh, and Joachim Trier. Become a member to access the full (200+ episode) podcast archive and get early access to new episodes: http://seventh-row.com/join
192. How do you tell a story about healing from shared trauma when the characters can't talk about it?
At the Place of Ghosts (2026) · Jun 20, 2026
190. Oslo, August 31st: Beginning and Ending (Deep Focus preview)
Oslo, August 31st (2011) · Apr 2, 2026
187. Sound of Falling + Interview with Mascha Schilinski
Sound of Falling (2025) · Jan 26, 2026
185. Chloé Zhao's Hamnet with Angelo Muredda
Hamnet (2025) · Dec 12, 2025
183. The Choral (TIFF 2025) with Ralph Fiennes: When queer characters don't make a queer film
The Choral (2025) · Sep 18, 2025
182. Couture (with Angelina Jolie) and Alice Winocour's traumatized bodies (TIFF 2025)
Couture (2026) · Sep 15, 2025
180. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value (TIFF 2025)
Sentimental Value (2025) · Sep 7, 2025
179. What if we told stories about women beyond their love lives?
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) · Jul 18, 2025
177. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh) with Lindsay Pugh (10th anniversary)
45 Years (2015) · Jun 27, 2025
176. Materialists (dir. Celine Song)
Materialists (2025) · Jun 20, 2025
174. Mission: Impossible (1996) with Angelo Muredda
Mission: Impossible (1996) · Jun 6, 2025
173. Beginnings and Endings: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025) · May 30, 2025
172. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (dir. Laura Piani)
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025) · May 23, 2025
169. The Shrouds (dir. David Cronenberg) with Angelo Muredda
The Shrouds (2025) · May 2, 2025
168. The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, 2025)
The Wedding Banquet (2025) · Apr 25, 2025
167. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) — the best pope movie
We Have a Pope (2011) · Apr 22, 2025
164. Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh: finally, a fun thriller for grownups
Black Bag (2025) · Mar 21, 2025
157. myfrenchfilmfestival: A Real Job, No Love Lost, Through The Night
A Real Job (2023) · Jan 24, 2025
157. myfrenchfilmfestival: A Real Job, No Love Lost, Through The Night
No Love Lost (2022) · Jan 24, 2025
155. Halina Reijn's Babygirl with Lindsay Pugh
Babygirl (2022) · Jan 10, 2025
153. Maura Delpero's Vermiglio: A film about systems of knowledge in rural Italy at the end of WWII
Vermiglio (2024) · Jan 3, 2025
151. Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name (2017) · Dec 27, 2024
149. The key to great character dramas + The Girl with the Needle (feat. Magnus von Horn)
The Girl with the Needle (2024) · Dec 3, 2024
147. Why is it so hard to see the new Cillian Murphy movie?
Small Things Like These (2024) · Nov 22, 2024
146. Small Things Like These: the Cillian Murphy drama you don't want to miss
Small Things Like These (2024) · Nov 13, 2024
144. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011) - Alt programming for Conclave
We Have a Pope (2011) · Oct 25, 2024
TIFF 2024 #9: Brady Corbet's The Brutalist with Angelo Muredda
The Brutalist (2024) · Oct 23, 2024
TIFF 24 #7: Luca Guadagnino's Queer with Angelo Muredda
Queer (2024) · Oct 4, 2024
TIFF 24 #6: Ralph Fiennes x 2: The Return and Conclave
Conclave (2024) · Sep 15, 2024
TIFF 24 #6: Ralph Fiennes x 2: The Return and Conclave
The Return (2024) · Sep 15, 2024
TIFF 24 #5: Bicultural daughters and their absent fathers: My Father's Daughter, Winter in Sokcho, and A Missing Part
Winter in Sokcho (2025) · Sep 10, 2024
TIFF24 #4: British social realism - Andrea Arnold's Bird and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
Hard Truths (2024) · Sep 8, 2024
TIFF24 #4: British social realism - Andrea Arnold's Bird and Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
Bird (2024) · Sep 8, 2024
TIFF 24 #2: Palestinian films: No Other Land, To a Land Unknown, Happy Holidays, and From Ground Zero
No Other Land (2024) · Sep 6, 2024
142. Good One (feat. India Donaldson): A teenager heads into the woods with her divorced dad
Good One (2024) · Aug 16, 2024
139. Green Border with Agnieszka Holland
Green Border (2023) · Jul 3, 2024
138. Ghostlight: An interview with Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
Ghostlight (2024) · Jun 19, 2024
137. Luca Guadagnino's Challengers with Andrew Kendall
Challengers (2024) · May 8, 2024
Nowhere Special with James Norton and Uberto Pasolini
Nowhere Special (2020) · Apr 26, 2024
Promising Young Woman + The Assistant: Rape culture on film in 2020 (Redux)
Promising Young Woman (2020) · Nov 22, 2023
Creative Nonfiction #5: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan and making a self-portrait
Confessions of a Good Samaritan (2023) · Jul 12, 2023
134: Justine Triet's Women on the Verge: In Bed With Victoria and Sibyl
In Bed with Victoria (2016) · May 27, 2023
133: Berlinale 2023: Here, Delegation, The Teachers' Lounge, Le Paradis, and more
Here (2024) · Mar 1, 2023
133: Berlinale 2023: Here, Delegation, The Teachers' Lounge, Le Paradis, and more
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) · Mar 1, 2023
133: Berlinale 2023: Here, Delegation, The Teachers' Lounge, Le Paradis, and more
Delegation (2023) · Mar 1, 2023
Sundance 2023 #6: Passages, You Hurt My Feelings, Rotting in the Sun, A Little Prayer, and more.
Passages (2023) · Feb 7, 2023
Sundance 2023 #5: Sometimes I Think About Dying, Fremont, Eileen, Fairyland, and more
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024) · Feb 1, 2023
Sundance 2023 #2: The Spotlight Program and The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains (2022) · Jan 21, 2023
132: Women Talking by Sarah Polley
Women Talking (2022) · Jan 11, 2023
131: Remembering Jeff Barnaby
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) · Dec 23, 2022
131: Remembering Jeff Barnaby
Blood Quantum (2019) · Dec 23, 2022
130: Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo (Excerpt)
EO (2022) · Nov 25, 2022
Bonus 31: My Small Land
My Small Land (2022) · Nov 8, 2022
128: Petite Maman and Céline Sciamma's temporary utopias
Petite Maman (2021) · Apr 27, 2022
127: Fabian: Going to the Dogs and the rise of totalitarianism
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021) · Apr 13, 2022
126: Run Woman Run: An Indigenous coming of age after 30 film
Run Woman Run (2021) · Apr 6, 2022
B24: Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (Excerpt)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) · Feb 23, 2022
122: Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World
The Worst Person in the World (2021) · Feb 2, 2022
121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies
Obvious Child (2014) · Jan 19, 2022
121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies
Ninjababy (2021) · Jan 19, 2022
119: Mike Leigh's Naked
Naked (1993) · Dec 22, 2021
B18: Titane (excerpt)
Titane (2021) · Dec 1, 2021
115: Revisiting The English Patient 25 years later
The English Patient (1996) · Oct 27, 2021
114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island
Things to Come (2016) · Oct 20, 2021
114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island
Bergman Island (2021) · Oct 20, 2021
113: About Time and I'm Your Man: Sci-fi love stories
About Time (2013) · Oct 13, 2021
113: About Time and I'm Your Man: Sci-fi love stories
I'm Your Man (2021) · Oct 13, 2021
112: Raw and Thelma: Modern female monsters
Raw (2017) · Oct 8, 2021
112: Raw and Thelma: Modern female monsters
Thelma (2017) · Oct 8, 2021
110: Weekend and End of the Century: Brief encounters
Weekend (2011) · Sep 22, 2021
110: Weekend and End of the Century: Brief encounters
End of the Century (2019) · Sep 22, 2021
108: The Deep Blue Seas redux
The Deep Blue Sea (2011) · Sep 8, 2021
107: Another Round and Oslo, August 31st: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction Redux
Oslo, August 31st (2011) · Sep 2, 2021
103: Pascal Plante's films: Fake Tattoos and Nadia Butterfly
Nadia, Butterfly (2020) · Aug 4, 2021
101. Magnus von Horn's Films: The Here After and Sweat
The Here After (2015) · Jul 21, 2021
101. Magnus von Horn's Films: The Here After and Sweat
Sweat (2021) · Jul 21, 2021
100: Films for the future
The English Patient (1996) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Lust, Caution (2007) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Empire of the Sun (1987) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Ishtar (1987) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Pride (2014) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
The Lady in the Van (2015) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Support the Girls (2018) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Proxima (2019) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
The Farewell (2019) · Jul 14, 2021
100: Films for the future
Teeth (2007) · Jul 14, 2021
90: A Chantal Akerman Mother's Day: Jeanne Dielman and Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
The Meetings of Anna (1978) · May 5, 2021
SR EP82: Genocide on Film: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) · Mar 9, 2021
68. Hillbilly Elegy and Down to The Bone: Portraits of Mothers Struggling With Addiction
Hillbilly Elegy (2020) · Dec 1, 2020
SR EP67: Frederick Wiseman's Ex Libris & City Hall
City Hall (2020) · Nov 24, 2020
66. Francis Lee's Gods Own Country and Ammonite
God's Own Country (2017) · Nov 17, 2020
66. Francis Lee's Gods Own Country and Ammonite
Ammonite (2020) · Nov 17, 2020
56: Justine Triet's Women on the Verge: In Bed With Victoria and Sibyl
In Bed with Victoria (2016) · Sep 8, 2020
7R EP52: First Cow & Wendy and Lucy
First Cow (2020) · Aug 11, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
Double Happiness (1994) · Jun 30, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
Monsieur Lazhar (2011) · Jun 30, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
The Good Lie (2014) · Jun 30, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
My Internship in Canada (2015) · Jun 30, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
Ninth Floor (2015) · Jun 30, 2020
46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
Meditation Park (2017) · Jun 30, 2020
42. Normal People & On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach (2018) · May 19, 2020
40: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece: Dead mothers
Stories We Tell (2012) · May 5, 2020
40: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece: Dead mothers
Louder Than Bombs (2015) · May 5, 2020
7R EP37: Subverting the Western Featuring Meek's Cutoff
Red River (1948) · Apr 14, 2020
7R EP37: Subverting the Western Featuring Meek's Cutoff
Bend of the River (1952) · Apr 14, 2020
7R EP37: Subverting the Western Featuring Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff (2011) · Apr 14, 2020
7R EP37: Subverting the Western Featuring Meek's Cutoff
First Cow (2020) · Apr 14, 2020
35. The Invisible Man (Leigh Wannell) and Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) and the stalker thriller
Unsane (2018) · Mar 31, 2020
35. The Invisible Man (Leigh Wannell) and Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) and the stalker thriller
The Invisible Man (2020) · Mar 31, 2020
30: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) · Feb 19, 2020
7R EP25: Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy and Night Moves
Night Moves (2014) · Jan 14, 2020
22: The King
The Lion King (2019) · Dec 9, 2019
14: The Souvenir
The Souvenir (2019) · Jun 21, 2019
13: Mouthpiece
Mouthpiece (2019) · Jun 7, 2019
11: Peterloo
Peterloo (2018) · Apr 19, 2019
7: Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete (2018) · Feb 2, 2019
2: Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here (2017) · Oct 12, 2018
1: Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace (2018) · Oct 4, 2018