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Eric Zhu

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Seattle Film Critics Society (@seattlecritics.bsky.social) Cascadia Film and TV Critics Association (@cascadiacritics.bsky.social) 🏳️‍🌈 https://open.substack.com/pub/theinsert

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Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 41m

VIFF: Resurrection, The Love that Remains
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-resurrection-the-love-that-remains

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 1d

VIFF: Sentimental Value, Miroirs No. 3
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-sentimental-value-miroirs-no

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 3d

VIFF: It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-it-was-just-an-accident-jafar

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 4d

VIFF: The Last One For the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-the-last-one-for-the-road-francesco

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 5d

NYFF: Mare's Nest (Ben Rivers)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/nyff-mares-nest-ben-rivers

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 7d

NYFF: Drunken Noodles, Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/nyff-drunken-noodles-last-night-i

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 8d

NYFF: Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love + Windward
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/nyff-lover-lovers-loving-love-windward

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 9d

Wasn't planning to write about One Battle After Another, but I couldn't help myself. Not a formal review, but some loosely organized thoughts about a really good movie that I have some reservations about.

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 10d

Notebook: One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/notebook-one-battle-after-another

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 10d

Notebook: One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/notebook-one-battle-after-another

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 12d

NYFF: Dooni, towards a fundamental theory of physics, Morning Circle
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/nyff-dooni-towards-a-fundamental

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 13d

NYFF: Levers, Pin de Fartie
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/nyff-levers-pin-de-fartie

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · 26d

VIFF Capsules: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, Mad Bills to Pay, Blue Heron
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-capsules-your-touch-makes-others

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Sep 7

Experimental Films from SF Crossroads
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/experimental-films-from-sf-crossroads

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Aug 31

VIFF 2025: Festival Preview
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/viff-2025-festival-preview

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Aug 23

From My Life: Highest 2 Lowest, Weapons, My Undesirable Friends + The Honey Quartet
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/from-my-life-highest-2-lowest-weapons

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Aug 8

New Releases: Eight Postcards from Utopia, Twinless
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/new-releases-eight-postcards-from

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jul 26

Summer Forever: On Jacques Rozier's Near Orouët
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/summer-forever-on-jacques-roziers

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Your Being Manipulated": On Ari Aster's Eddington
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/your-being-manipulated-on-ari-asters

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Hills are Alive: On Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/the-hills-are-alive-on-kiarostamis

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Insert July 2025: The Best Films of the Year (thus far)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/the-insert-july-2025-the-best-films

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jun 26

Death and Transfiguration: 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/death-and-transfiguration-28-years

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jun 24

New Releases: The Phoenician Scheme, Vulcanizadora, Materialists
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/new-releases-the-phoenician-scheme

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pride Month Extras: The Illiac Passion , The Death of Louis XIV
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/pride-month-extras-the-illiac-passion

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Empire (Bruno Dumont, 2024)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/the-empire-bruno-dumont-2024

Eric Zhu @ezhu.bsky.social · Jun 4

Exposé du film annonce du film “Scenario”, Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024)
Link: https://theinsert.substack.com/p/the-story-of-scenario-jean-luc-godard