The Insert
Eric ZhuA newsletter about arthouse film, experimental film, and notable Seattle theatrical releases
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 304 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 28 hours ago |
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves, David Greaves, 2026)
One of 2026’s most welcome surprises is a new film from the great William Greaves, the director best known for 1968’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One who passed away in 2014. More accurately, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, finished now over a...
La Bola Negra (Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo, 2026)
A traipse through a century of Spanish history as seen through a few gay icons, La Bola Negra is a very fashionable film, at once a conscious entry in contemporary cinema’s ongoing fixation with the archive and a throwback to Miramax Oscar...
You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, 2026)
You Can See Everything is a duplicitous film. This shouldn’t be surprising, given its ostensible subject, Elizabeth Holmes, the now-disgraced founder of the biotech startup Theranos, convicted of defrauding investors out of half a billion d...
NYFF Currents: What Can’t Be Mentioned, Foreign Travel
What Can’t Be Mentioned (Dan Sallitt)
It’s become increasingly difficult for American indie productions, especially those with lofty formal ambitions, to find success in stateside festivals, and it seems like more and more of the best Amer...
NYFF Currents: Playtime
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinas)
Among the critics I read, there’s been lots of debate in recent years over the curation at TIFF Wavelengths and NYFF’s Currents sidebars, arguably the two largest platforms for experimental film i...
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