Seven (with Adam Nayman)
From The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast by Bright Wall/Dark Room
October 5, 2025 · 52 min · Episode 67
About this episode
The episode celebrates the 30th anniversary of David Fincher's film Seven with guest Adam Nayman discussing various aspects of the film and its production.
Happy 30th birthday to David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Joining us to celebrate is special guest Adam Nayman, Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of, among other books, David Fincher: Mind Games (2021). We get into: boy movies, the intersections of art and trash, Fincher as mad designer and marketing guru, Veronica can’t do math, canceling Det. Mills, how a spark of ambiguity can incite a book-length study, the undersung editing of Richard Francis-Bruce, the undersung producing prowess of Michael De Luca, what is and is not in the box, and more.References: Tony Zhou on David Fincher (“And the Other Way is Wrong”), Richard Dyer’s BFI book for Seven, and of course, Adam’s terrific book on Fincher, Mind Games, from Little White Lies/Abrams Books.The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast is co-hosted by Veronica Fitzpatrick and Chad Perman, and produced by Eli Sands. Our theme music is composed by Chad.Find all 142 issues of Bright Wall/Dark Room at brightwalldarkroom.com, and please consider subscribing to the site, which directly helps support this show! We welcome feedback, inquiries, and sponsorship opportunities at podcast@brightwalldarkroom.com.
People in this episode
Hosts: Veronica Fitzpatrick, Chad Perman
Guest: Adam Nayman
Topics covered
- David Fincher
- film analysis
- editing
- producing
- ambiguity in film
- boy movies
Keywords
- Seven
- David Fincher
- film reviews
- editing
- producing
- ambiguity
- Toronto-based critic
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Little White Lies, Abrams Books
Books & works: Seven, David Fincher: Mind Games, And the Other Way is Wrong, Richard Dyer’s BFI book for Seven
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