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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 10h

TIME FOR A FEW SMALL BEERS

a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

ALT: a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 11h

If the Mariners win the World Series Criterion needs to put out a 4K of HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS

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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 16d

Still can’t quite believe this is a real movie, but the fact that Spaceballs 2 decided to unveil its cast by spoofing the Force Awakens table read photo (*and* by putting a pizza on a chair in tribute to the late great Pizza the Hutt) is an encouraging sign. screencrush.com/spaceballs-2...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 14h

#LetterboxdFriday Last Eight Watched #NYFF63 edition.

Seisaku’s Wife: a Yasuzō Masumura film through and through and Ayako Wakao is as brilliant as ever. Same with Sentimental Value re: director and actress.

One Battle After Another: tinyurl.com/3em963dh
A House of Dynamite: tinyurl.com/bdf3vzvs

Late Fame (Kent Jones)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
One Battle After Another (PT Anderson)

Seisaku's Wife (Yasuzō Masumura)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Scott Cooper)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 15h

No idea. I was just struck by the weird photo.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting that this project involves corpse hands.

Bizarre Reuters photo of Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, a ruddy-faced man who has found himself in the tight, facial grip of a pale, dead hand, though he looks pretty unperturbed about it. Possibly a sign that this TikTok data center is *not* a good idea.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18h

Coming to US streaming/digital this month - Alex Philippe's doc CHAIN REACTIONS on the 50th anniversary of Texas Chain Saw Massacre, w/ myself, Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt + Karyn Kusama.

Thanks for the signal boost @fangoria.bsky.social 💜

CHAIN REACTIONS Documentary Slashes Onto Digital This Month

Alexandre O. Philippe's CHAIN REACTIONS documentary, featuring insight from Karyn Kusama, Stephen King, and more, hits digital this month.

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Scarecrow Video @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social · 1d

Hey you freaks tomorrow night is the second Trauma Bond screening, hosted by @nwfilmforum.bsky.social and Miss Monday Mourning, with proceeds to us! 8pm, get tickets now and go melt your mind. nwfilmforum.org/films/trauma...

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 23h

Part three of my #NYFF63 diary. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

A House of Dynamite opens today at @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown.

63rd New York Film Festival Snapshot, Part 3: Kathryn Bigelow’s Thriller A House of Dynamite

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (Kathryn Bigelow, 2025, USA, 112 minutes) Like any major film festival these days, this year's NYFF included a few Netfl...

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Linklater's two surprising new movies, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague, are hectic dramas of two great artists racing against the clock—in effect, racing to exist—with very different results; both are highly recommended:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

The director’s new films—about Lorenz Hart and Jean-Luc Godard—form a kind of diptych, but the contrasts are as important as the similarities.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 2d

That's a great one.

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Elman Steven @esteven.bsky.social · 2d

He liked photographing people in repose. For instance this portrait of his friend Fran Lebowitz in her childhood home.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 2d

Part two of my #NYFF63 diary. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

(This man, the real-deal Peter Hujar, does not appear on screen.)

63rd New York Film Festival Snapshot, Part 2: Ira Sachs' 1970s Reverie Peter Hujar's Day

PETER HUJAR'S DAY (Ira Sachs, 2025, USA, 76 minutes) I may have missed The Mastermind , but I had no problem getting to the Walter Reade Th...

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 2d

There is NO way this is real. But it's very, very funny.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Mr. Pigeon

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Will Bunnett @willbunnett.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect execution on the idea of turning away from "defund" — while turning toward funding non-police intervention in mental health calls and *framing it as something to help out the police.*

This guy has political skill lightyears beyond the Chesa Boudins and Pamela Prices of the world.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting dynamic in NYC where Zohran Mamdani is blunting opposition from patrol officers by taking their poor job conditions seriously. Bob Kuttner has this one:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Mamdani Courts the Cops

He is doing a lot better than you might think.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 2d

How one song, the right song, can make all the difference.

How ‘American Girl’ Enhances a Scene in ‘One Battle After Another’

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 2d

Super thrilled to announce that I will be in conversation at @ptknitwear on Nov 3 with @rollingstone.com writer David Browne in celebration of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write.

The Freaks Came Out to Greenwich Village: Tricia Romano & David Browne

The Freaks Came Out to Greenwich Village: Writing and Singing about the Countercultural Capital of the World.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

The music slaps and Scully is hot, but Tron: Ares is nothing more than corporate whitewashed AI apologia. Yet even that pales next to the ethically bleak desperation it has to rehabilitate Jared Leto's much-deserved reputation as an actual piece of shit. Fuck him, fuck Disney, and fuck this film.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

When I hear Nine Inch Nails in TRON: ARES

Vs.

When I see Jared Fucken Leto in TRON: ARES

Anna Nicole Smith, upset and furious, points angrily in a courtroom witness stand

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 2d

Cloud is now on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. It's a fun one!

🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · Aug 2

I finally caught up with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, and I'm glad I did. It encouraged me to also watch Serpent's Path. Now I'm just hoping that Chime and the SP remake become more readily available. Cloud opens in Seattle on Aug 15 at @siffnews.bsky.social Cinema Uptown. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Capitalism Proves Crushing in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Satiric Thriller Cloud (Though People With Guns Can Be Pesky, Too)

CLOUD / Kuraudo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, Japan, 124 minutes) "You operate on impulse and instinct? No effort whatsoever?"--prospective sel...

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