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 | 301 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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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...
VIFF Capsules: All of a Sudden, Everytime, and more
Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
I would love to see more films like Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, which subjects the premise of grief filtered through the lens of a young child to a series of maximalist formal and narrative gambles. Even if the f...
NYFF: La Libertad Doble
La Libertad Doble (Lisandro Alonso)
Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad Doble, is a quasi-remake of his totemic 2001 debut, La Libertad, one of the most important art films of the 21st century. Shot with a crew of ten people, La Libertad observe...
VIFF Capsules: Fjord, Minotaur, and more
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, which won the Palme D’or this year, is Mungiu’s first feature made outside of Romania, and in some troubling ways, it’s a sister film to his 2022 feature R.M.N. I was fairly cool on R.M.N, a...
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