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Kate Armstrong

@brainchain.ca

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On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. Purportedly Canadian. She/her. Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.

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Ela Schneider @elaschneider43.bsky.social · 4m

Monsieur Lazhar - one of my all-time favourite

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 3m

And basically every horror movie director in the aughts stole from Gingersnaps

Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 3m

Humanist Vampire is on my watchlist and I adored Beans

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Shivaun @shivaunish.bsky.social · 18m

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Ginger Snaps

Beans

Adult Adoption

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Kyle Climans @kclimans.bsky.social · 30m

Atom Egoyan is especially slept on as an auteur. His film output can sometimes be spotty but when he’s on, he’s incredible. I’d happily rank him among my all time fave filmmakers.

He recently directed Amanda Seyfried in the film Seven Veils and it’s great. One of Seyfried’s best performances yet!

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 30m

I am such a New Waterford girl Stan!

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A. E. Fisher @bluenoselibrarian.bsky.social · 33m

I haven't seen anyone mention Bon Cop Bad Cop yet - and even if they have, it bears repeating!

Also:

Highway 61; Hard Core Logo (both Bruce McDonald)
Margaret's Museum (Mort Ransen)
New Waterford Girl (Allan Moyle)

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 31m

@godzilou.bsky.social put me on to this but I will not rest until all of Bluesky’s gardening feed watches ‘Dis-moi pourquoi les choses sont si belles ‘
youtu.be/ve6HNz5T5T8

DIS-MOI POURQUOI CES CHOSES SONT SI BELLES I BANDE-ANNONCE

YouTube video by Les Films Opale

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 35m

All of these but especially Monsieur Lazhar and Hard Core Logo are superlative.

🍁 DO NOT SLEEP ON THEM 🍁

Kyle Climans @kclimans.bsky.social · 59m

Round 2!

Last Night
The Red Violin
Monsieur Lazhar
Hard Core Logo
Chloe
eXistenZ

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 37m

That’s putting it mildly.

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Hilary Baumann 💻 🥃 @hilarybaumann.com · 52m

Right now you can self host your PDS (the content storage) but a lot of the “front end” isn’t even hosted with Bluesky so you have to trust that those interfaces will remain online.

It’s still early days and I suspect this will shift and evolve. (Leaflet is doing a lot of good work.)

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LeesahSea @leesahsea.bsky.social · 52m

Just remembered a recent film that unsettled me to my core...

Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms) written & directed by Pascal Plante

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 53m

Nope. Great and disturbing as hell movie

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 55m

Has anyone mentioned Bruce Beresford's BLACK ROBE yet? That one's kind of a bummer but it is very fine I think.

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Kyle Climans @kclimans.bsky.social · 59m

Round 2!

Last Night
The Red Violin
Monsieur Lazhar
Hard Core Logo
Chloe
eXistenZ

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Hilary Baumann 💻 🥃 @hilarybaumann.com · 58m

Ghost.io is probably the closest to Substack af the moment in terms of being able to monetize and self host on a Digital Ocean droplet (they also have hosted options but I know some people have had issues there so donate and self host is better for some.)

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 58m

Due to Link’s permaban it also makes sense if you have no faith in the future of this AT proto platform. That’s a correct way to go too.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

Writing ✍️ and microblogging options , people!

🄟ᴀᴛ://𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙆 or 𝔗𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 @alt.psingletary.com · 1h

besides we got our own longform writing here on ATProtocol

@leaflet.pub & @pipup.social

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@dreid63 @dreid63.bsky.social · 1h

There are a lot of great Québécois films, and this is my favourite.

C.R.A.Z.Y. - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films

youtu.be

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

I’m heading to walk Tilly and wfh work but keep on sending me your favourite Québécois and Canadian films because I will repost liberally.

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Suzanne Lapointe @suemetal.bsky.social · 1h

I really loved "Viking" from Stéphane Lafleur

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J.Jareth @jenejareth.bsky.social · 8h

Giddyup

daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 1d

A brown and dark gray bunny wearing a pink cowboy hat with a silver star sits on a plush purple blanket.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

Have to look after this dog for an hour at work. Bit of a burden. 🙄

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 1h

Nobel discourse today is just silly so some more thoughts on Seiobo There Below. I love this book for a couple of reasons. One is that it's so blatantly *about* a big concept (beauty) and goes about examining it in such rich, unexpected ways that you truly feel like you've learned something new.

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 1d

Okay can I just say that Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below is truly one of my absolute favourite novels ever.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

Yeah this new negative option email is totally invasive as well. I have a Notes list of the writers I liked on Substack and go to their websites or Bluesky accounts instead as a workaround.