About

About this journal

Eat Up publishes essays, reviews and short notes about how films are made. It is small, independent, and not attached to any distributor, festival or streaming service.

What we publish

Three kinds of piece. Essays take a single technique — a way of staging, cutting or holding a scene — and follow it across several films. Reviews cover one film at a time, usually because it is playing somewhere or has just become easy to see. Notes are shorter: one observation, written down before it is forgotten.

We do not give scores. A score is a summary of an argument, and if the argument is any good it does not compress into a number. We also do not run news, release schedules or box office coverage; those are done better elsewhere, and daily.

Who writes it

Three editors, signing with initials because the pieces matter more than the bylines: R. Anderby writes mostly on staging and genre, M. Kaltenbach on sound and projection, J. Trelawney on documentary. Everything is read by at least one of the others before it appears.

How pieces are made

Every film written about here has been watched in full, and where a piece describes a specific scene, that scene was rewatched while writing. Nothing is commissioned by, paid for by, or shown in advance to anybody connected with the films discussed.

Images

We do not publish film stills. The cover image on each piece is original artwork made for this journal — an abstraction rather than an illustration, so that nothing on the page pretends to be a frame from the film under discussion.

Corrections

If we have got a fact, a credit or a date wrong, write to us. We will fix it and say on the page what was changed. See contact.