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Hi Bluesky, we’re Film East, a global film group that provides a platform for audiences to experience and interact with film

We specialise in:

🍿slow film criticism with an online and print pub open to submissions
🎬film curation&bespoke screenings
🎞️online community of film fans!

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🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

In this joint article, Niamh Brook and Shelby Cooke discuss the significance of the craft and narrative of Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/an...
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Arthur Viegas asks how the cinematic form can be used as an extension of humanity, viewing these works as complex and complicated as us

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/vi...
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🎄🎬 Film East Chats… The Holdovers OUT NOW!

Listen to our full discussion of The Holdovers by searching “Film East Chats” anywhere you listen to podcasts including Apple and YouTube!

Or visit our website at film-east.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Elisenda de Wit Roy explores the auteur theory through Carla Simón’s feature films Estiu 1993 and Alcarràs

This article was originally published on 14 November 2023.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/re...
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

As the COVID-19 pandemic closed cinemas, Matthew Stogdon reflected on the place of at-home video on demand

This article was originally published on 16 September 2020.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/vi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Upasana Dandona explores how lesbian relationships are presented in the Bollywood films Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga and Dedh Ishqiya

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/le...
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Rhys Hope breaks down the theory of Elevated Horror, asking whether the new wave of contemporary horror films from studios like A24 deserve this title or not.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/th...
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Holly Gibson discusses how the feminist and socialist themes presented in Ever After influenced her as a child watching the film for the first time.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/sl...
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Zachary Thompson discusses how Memoria uses sound and audio to communicate its message of humanity’s disconnect from the natural world

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/ha...
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🎬✍️ FROM THE FE ONLINE ARCHIVE!

Will Schofield questions the validity of the auteurism, using Nina Paley’s film as a true definition of auteurism.

This article was originally published on 16 December 2020.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/re...
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎧🎬 Film East Chats… The Worst Person in the World OUT NOW!

Listen to our full discussion of The Worst Person in the World by searching “Film East Chats” anywhere you listen to podcasts including Apple and YouTube! Or visit our website at film-east.com

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October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📀🎞️ Film East’s Criterion Picks!

Film East’s Editor-in-Chief visited the Criterion Mobile Closet at TIFF 50. With only 3 minutes inside and 3 picks allowed, Shelby talks about 3 British films that helped shape the cinematic canon, as well as influenced her own journey with film.
September 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE!

Liam Smith breaks down how the classic film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, explores love, loss, pain and remembrance

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/et...
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TIFF REVIEW: Sentimental Value

“It’s meticulous and intentional, draped in metaphor and rich in context, beautifully acted and exquisitely presented. It’s a film that displays Trier’s growth as a filmmaker and control over his vision.”

Read the review: www.instagram.com/p/DORbQUyjLx...
September 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
TIFF REVIEW: Erupcja

“The contrast between the mumblecore-style acting, the Eastern European fable narration and Ohs’ intentionally dreamy editing results in a full-bodied, atmospheric film that captures your imagination like all good films should.”

👉🏻 www.instagram.com/p/DOPAYp3jI2...
September 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🍿As we prepare to start rolling out the TIFF 2025 content, check out this last throwback to our 2022 TIFF coverage! We spoke with Paul Mescal — before becoming an Oscar nominee and the internet’s favourite sad boy — on the red carpet for Aftersun!

Make sure you’re following for all TIFF coverage!
September 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🎧🎬🍍 Film East Chats… Chungking Express and Fallen Angels OUT NOW!

Listen to the full episode by searching “Film East Chats” anywhere you listen to podcasts including Apple and YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=roER...

#filmcriticism #filmcritic #wongkarwai #filmpodcast #podcastclips
September 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE!

Griffin Larson-Erf explores how Moritz Mohr’s ultra-violent film, Boy Kills World, compares to the violence seen in the Gaza Strip

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/be...
August 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🍿We’re headed to TIFF to bring you all the exciting happenings from one of the world’s biggest film festivals!

To get hyped, we’re looking back at our first visit to TIFF. Here’s a clip from our interview with Tilda Swinton

Check out the TIFF 2022 content here: www.film-east.com/tiff-22
August 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE!

Inés Cases-Falque breaks down how director Hlynur Pálmason uses man-made products as a metaphor for colonial power in the film Godland.

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/hl...
August 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE!

Shloke Chatterjee discusses how the female lead in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave functions as the new wave of noir femme fatales

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/de...
August 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I mean, we did TECHNICALLY have the brat zine first sooo... 🤪🍏

Our brat zine features 18 films and TV shows paired with each song from Charli XCX’s revolutionary album.

available in both print and digital download: www.film-east.com/brat-collect...
August 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE!

Sayeed Ahmed tackles Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult, dissecting how the film’s conflict mimics the political tensions between Lebanon and Palestine

Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/th...
August 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
🎧🎬🐻 Film East Chats… Paddington in Peru OUT NOW!

Listen to the full episode by searching “Film East Chats” anywhere you listen to podcasts including Apple and YouTube!

🎧 youtu.be/aK78eNeV4ug?...

#filmcriticism #filmcritic #paddington #immigrant #migrant #paddingtoninperu #filmpodcast
August 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM