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An independent, reader-supported film journal since 2013. issues & essays: brightwalldarkroom.com support: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/subscribe everything else: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 16d
"THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS gestures to a world wherein the rules & rulings fundamentally don’t matter; to be alive amid them is enough & to make friction amid them divine. All the arbitrary rulings of a given reality fall to stupid joys, idiot glee rubbing up against deeply felt melancholy
“The Love You Send is Endless”: The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020)
The History of the Seattle Mariners is the first cultural object I’ve encountered that painstakingly constructs a specific, relatable history only to use that construct to then gesture towards the fut...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 16d
"THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS gestures to a world wherein the rules & rulings fundamentally don’t matter; to be alive amid them is enough & to make friction amid them divine. All the arbitrary rulings of a given reality fall to stupid joys, idiot glee rubbing up against deeply felt melancholy
“The Love You Send is Endless”: The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020)
The History of the Seattle Mariners is the first cultural object I’ve encountered that painstakingly constructs a specific, relatable history only to use that construct to then gesture towards the fut...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...
The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition
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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2h
If the Mariners win the World Series Criterion needs to put out a 4K of HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS
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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 14h
Also for the record: I wrote a piece about TRON LEGACY for @bwdr.bsky.social a few years ago that gets at the things the movie’s interested in, which go deeper than its detractors would have you believe
Tron: Legacy | "Biodigital Jazz" - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Tron: Legacy's lasting reputation is mostly that of a flashy action blockbuster, with plenty to show and little to say. But the film's unique visual aesthetic elevates it to a level beyond similar fil...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 1d
Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate: Friends/Ships In MASTER AND COMMANDER
Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate | Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
The real crux of Aubrey and Maturin's friendship, what makes 'Master And Commander' so rich in general, is the way in which the film challenges their relationship and also kind of has an answer for a ...
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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 2d
Love that Spielberg starts off with “What an insane movie you made! Oh my God.”
One Battle After Another Q&A w/ Paul Thomas Anderson Steven Spielberg Moderates
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d
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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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 2d
“OPENING NIGHT was John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands' sixth collaboration: two disruptors tearing down the walls of an establishment to forge a different kind of accepted entertainment, free from the bars of script, transmutable to those changed by it. A shedding of costume.”
Opening Night (1977): There’s No Humor Anymore & All the Glamour’s Dead
Opening Night was Cassavetes and Rowlands' sixth collaboration; two disruptors tearing down the walls of an establishment to forge a different kind of accepted entertainment, free from the bars of scr...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 2d
Notes Towards a Theory of the Uncanniness of Adam McKay's STEP BROTHERS
'Step Brothers' takes place in a reality that’s neither here nor there, one that slips through your grasp every time you think you’ve gotten your hands around it.
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d
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Dialogue on Mother from Alien: WHAT ARE MY CHANCES? / DOES NOT COMPUTE
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 2d
Was completely on purpose
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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 2d
Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 2d
New today!

"Having the privilege of being a local & living a short commute away from Festival Street, I’m able to focus on what makes TIFF special for me: its varied Canadian programming."

- Michelle Krasovitski on BLUE HERON, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, THE COST OF HEAVEN and more
TIFF 2025 Dispatch: Three Canadian Double Features
Having the privilege of being a local and living a short commute away from Festival Street, I’m able to focus on what makes TIFF special for me: its varied Canadian programming.
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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 3d
I rewatched this movie recently after having not seen it in decades and it was even better than I remembered. Some movies age badly, but MIRACLE MILE keeps finding new ways to reveal how ahead of its time it was.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 3d
"MIRACLE MILE is about many things — romance and Los Angeles and the looming threat of nuclear devastation at the close of the Cold War — but also, obsessively, it’s about marking the passage of time."
The End of the World Will Come at Dawn | Miracle Mile (1989) | BW/DR
Miracle Mile is about many things — romance and LA and the looming threat of nuclear devastation — but also, obsessively, it’s about the passage of time.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 3d
"MIRACLE MILE is about many things — romance and Los Angeles and the looming threat of nuclear devastation at the close of the Cold War — but also, obsessively, it’s about marking the passage of time."
The End of the World Will Come at Dawn | Miracle Mile (1989) | BW/DR
Miracle Mile is about many things — romance and LA and the looming threat of nuclear devastation — but also, obsessively, it’s about the passage of time.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 4d
watch the clip and you’ll hear Benecio say “Kid A for me.”
Leo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro are obsessed with Oasis and Radiohead reuniting
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 4d
ocean waves
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 4d
"One could fairly criticize Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman)—“player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in the chaotically raunchy SLAP SHOT—for a wide variety of character flaws and professional failings, but he is true to the letter of St. Francis de Sales’ wisdom: Be who you are & be that well."
Slap Shot (1977): The Courage To Teach
One could criticize Reggie Dunlop (Newman), “player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in George Roy Hill's chaotically raunchy Slap Shot, for a wide variety of character flaws & professional failings—b...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 5d
Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western
Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western
Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 5d
Dr. Strangelove - Precious Bodily Fluids
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 5d
sunday is also a good day for Seven pods
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 6d
hey if you're up late we've got a treat for you: we just released a brand new pod celebrating/unpacking the 30th anniversary of SEVEN, with the always wonderful Adam Nayman open.spotify.com/episode/2Oir...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d
i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 6d
hey if you're up late we've got a treat for you: we just released a brand new pod celebrating/unpacking the 30th anniversary of SEVEN, with the always wonderful Adam Nayman open.spotify.com/episode/2Oir...
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 10d
I took probably too many words here to grapple with Paul Newman’s supposedly favorite role, Reggie Dunlop; what it means to be a good teacher; what it means to try to succeed in America; and how to subvert the systems that want to keep us down. Give it a read?
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 10d
New today on the site!

"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT

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Slap Shot (1977): The Courage To Teach
One could criticize Reggie Dunlop (Newman), “player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in George Roy Hill's chaotically raunchy Slap Shot, for a wide variety of character flaws & professional failings—b...
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Adam Bonfanti @adambonfanti.bsky.social · 6d
Now streaming on @watchshouttv.bsky.social: "Big Fan"

Wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social about its seemingly prophetic insights into toxic fandom, the male loneliness epidemic, and the modern conception of political identity as one more form of team loyalty:

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An Unfortunate Misunderstanding - Big Fan (2009) | BW/DR
Twelve years on, Big Fan now plays like a prophetic warning, anticipating a number of the more ruinous social pathologies that plague this country, from the incoherent angst of working-class white men...
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