Isy Santini
@isysantini.bsky.social
Freelance Writer, Critic, and Programmer | Bylines in The List, Film Stories, The Film Magazine, and DMovies
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Isy Santini
@isysantini.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Sexual Assault in Wes Craven’s Filmography | The Film Magazine
How Wes Craven evolved his presentation and exploration of sexual assault throughout his films, from 'The Last House on the Left' to 'Red Eye' via 'Scream'. Essay by Isy Santini.
www.thefilmagazine.com
Halloween's well behind us now, but for my first post on Bluesky I still want to share my article about the portrayal of sexual violence in Wes Craven's filmography.
Published by @thefilmagazine.bsky.social
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Published by @thefilmagazine.bsky.social
www.thefilmagazine.com/sexual-assau...
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Real talk (reel talk?):
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Real talk (reel talk?):
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
My review of Christy, a surprisingly joyful social realist drama. Seen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Christy - DMovies
Social realist drama from Ireland about teenager finding his confidence as he meets his estranged prioritises hope over gloom - from the 78th Edinburgh Film Festival
dmovies.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My review of Christy, a surprisingly joyful social realist drama. Seen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
dmovies.org/2025/08/20/c...
dmovies.org/2025/08/20/c...
I spoke with poet Theresa Muñoz (@munozpoems.bsky.social) about her new collection, Archivum, ahead of her performance at Hidden Door (@hiddendoorarts.bsky.social) this Saturday
Theresa Muñoz is about to take the stage at Hidden Door, performing from her new collection Archivum. We caught up with her to chat about the inspiration of Muriel Spark, multiracial identity and giving a platform to lost voices.
Theresa Muñoz on her poetry: 'You have to talk about the self in relation to the object' | The List
In her new poetry collection, Theresa Muñoz reflects on the way objects in an archive embody important stories that can inform our present-day lives. She speaks
list.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I spoke with poet Theresa Muñoz (@munozpoems.bsky.social) about her new collection, Archivum, ahead of her performance at Hidden Door (@hiddendoorarts.bsky.social) this Saturday
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My review of Lili Marleen
Hanna Schygulla stars in Rainer Werner Fassinder's glitzy WW2 drama about lovers torn by war allegiances, a movie raising tough questions about morality
Watch the latest ArteKino Classics addition for free:
dmovies.org/2025/06/09/l...
Watch the latest ArteKino Classics addition for free:
dmovies.org/2025/06/09/l...
Lili Marleen - DMovies
Hanna Schygulla stars in Fassinder's glitzy WW2 drama about lovers torn by war allegiances, a movie raising tough questions about morality - from ArteKino Classics
dmovies.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My review of Lili Marleen
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📄 Our June issue is heading to The Paper Factory in a Hidden Door special, featuring chats with some highlights from the line-up, including local favourites Bikini Body, Isabella Strange, Theresa Muñoz and the Danish trio Smag På Dig Selv.
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📄 Our June issue is heading to The Paper Factory in a Hidden Door special, featuring chats with some highlights from the line-up, including local favourites Bikini Body, Isabella Strange, Theresa Muñoz and the Danish trio Smag På Dig Selv.
May 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's nearly that time
April 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's nearly that time
Edinburgh and Glasgow friends! Later this month CinemaAttic is hosting a night of Palestinian short films in aid of two important Palestinian organisations. Please spread the word and come along if you can! All proceeds will go towards Amplify Gaza and Plant a Tree in Palestine! 🇵🇸
🇵🇸 VIVA PALESTINA FUNDRAISER 🇵🇸
CinemaAttic is proud to collaborate with the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to present a short film night in aid of the Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund and Plant a Tree in Palestine, to whom all our proceeds will go.
CinemaAttic is proud to collaborate with the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to present a short film night in aid of the Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund and Plant a Tree in Palestine, to whom all our proceeds will go.
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Edinburgh and Glasgow friends! Later this month CinemaAttic is hosting a night of Palestinian short films in aid of two important Palestinian organisations. Please spread the word and come along if you can! All proceeds will go towards Amplify Gaza and Plant a Tree in Palestine! 🇵🇸
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The Catalan Film Festival is less than a week away! 🥳 Check out our trailer to see all the fantastic cinema we have lined up this March: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Jp...
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
#CFF10 #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Dundee #Inverness
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
#CFF10 #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Dundee #Inverness
Catalan Film Festival 10 TRAILER
YouTube video by Cinemaattic Productions
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March 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Catalan Film Festival is less than a week away! 🥳 Check out our trailer to see all the fantastic cinema we have lined up this March: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Jp...
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
#CFF10 #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Dundee #Inverness
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
#CFF10 #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Dundee #Inverness
We have a great programme lined up for the tenth Catalan Film Festival, with award-winning features and shorts exploring themes of family, memory, and personal transformation. I'm so proud to have worked on the programming committee.
📣 CATALAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025 IS HERE 📣
The highly-anticipated Catalan Film Festival returns for its tenth edition coming to cinemas across Scotland from March 8th – March 30th 2025. 🥳
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
The highly-anticipated Catalan Film Festival returns for its tenth edition coming to cinemas across Scotland from March 8th – March 30th 2025. 🥳
See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We have a great programme lined up for the tenth Catalan Film Festival, with award-winning features and shorts exploring themes of family, memory, and personal transformation. I'm so proud to have worked on the programming committee.
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Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in, Harold and Maude (1971)
December 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in, Harold and Maude (1971)
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Help us make the Latin Connections Film Festival happen! 📣
We invite you to help bring the Latin Connections Film Festival to life—a vision that has been in the making for over four years.
You can donate to our Crowdfunder here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/latin-conn...
We invite you to help bring the Latin Connections Film Festival to life—a vision that has been in the making for over four years.
You can donate to our Crowdfunder here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/latin-conn...
February 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Help us make the Latin Connections Film Festival happen! 📣
We invite you to help bring the Latin Connections Film Festival to life—a vision that has been in the making for over four years.
You can donate to our Crowdfunder here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/latin-conn...
We invite you to help bring the Latin Connections Film Festival to life—a vision that has been in the making for over four years.
You can donate to our Crowdfunder here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/latin-conn...
Nothing more demoralising than planning a feature about a film (especially one you have a very deep emotional connection to!) only to find out that someone on youtube has come out with a video on exactly the same topic the week before
February 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nothing more demoralising than planning a feature about a film (especially one you have a very deep emotional connection to!) only to find out that someone on youtube has come out with a video on exactly the same topic the week before
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Just a reminder that Film Stories is 100% independent. There's no funding body, we don't get grants, we can only spend what we bring in (which places limits on what we can cover).
If you like what we do, please consider supporting us here: filmstories.co.uk/support/
Thank you!
If you like what we do, please consider supporting us here: filmstories.co.uk/support/
Thank you!
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just a reminder that Film Stories is 100% independent. There's no funding body, we don't get grants, we can only spend what we bring in (which places limits on what we can cover).
If you like what we do, please consider supporting us here: filmstories.co.uk/support/
Thank you!
If you like what we do, please consider supporting us here: filmstories.co.uk/support/
Thank you!
I'm so excited about this one. If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, come along to our screening of The Human Surge on Saturday. This film spends five minutes exploring the inside of an ant-hill and it somehow works - it's fantastic stuff.
"The Human Surge is that rarity – an experimental film that is actually experimental, and constantly one step ahead of the viewer" - Brian Beadie
THE HUMAN SURGE is screening this Saturday as part of CinemaAttic's Eduardo Williams retrospective.
THE HUMAN SURGE is screening this Saturday as part of CinemaAttic's Eduardo Williams retrospective.
February 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm so excited about this one. If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, come along to our screening of The Human Surge on Saturday. This film spends five minutes exploring the inside of an ant-hill and it somehow works - it's fantastic stuff.
Huge news for me, a lifelong Ella Enchanted lover. I was just rewatching it for the 100th time and realised that one of Hattie's costumes is made from a 1970s top that I also own
January 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Huge news for me, a lifelong Ella Enchanted lover. I was just rewatching it for the 100th time and realised that one of Hattie's costumes is made from a 1970s top that I also own
Marianne Faithfull 😥 RIP
January 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Marianne Faithfull 😥 RIP
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Brasil: A Slow Film Festival is back, and we are kicking off this year with Neighbouring Sounds (O Som ao Redor) by acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurao, Pictures of Ghosts)
January 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Brasil: A Slow Film Festival is back, and we are kicking off this year with Neighbouring Sounds (O Som ao Redor) by acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurao, Pictures of Ghosts)
I love spotting recycled movie costumes in the wild
January 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I love spotting recycled movie costumes in the wild
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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I've recently been introduced to Marcell Jankovics' films. So far I've only seen Son of the White Mare and Johnny Corncob, but I'm in love. It's some of the most beautiful animation I've ever seen.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I've recently been introduced to Marcell Jankovics' films. So far I've only seen Son of the White Mare and Johnny Corncob, but I'm in love. It's some of the most beautiful animation I've ever seen.
Reposted by Isy Santini
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Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best Of Both Worlds
Now crowdfunding ~
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...
youtu.be/xY1t7Li_ga4?...
Now crowdfunding ~
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...
youtu.be/xY1t7Li_ga4?...
castration movie part 2 teaser
YouTube video by Louise Weard
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January 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best Of Both Worlds
Now crowdfunding ~
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...
youtu.be/xY1t7Li_ga4?...
Now crowdfunding ~
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...
youtu.be/xY1t7Li_ga4?...