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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 25m

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 <i>Cloud</i> (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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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Hear, hear

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 1h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 3h

Part one of my #NYFF63 diary. Plus, a look back at NYFF 41.

A Snapshot of the 63rd New York Film Festival Plus a Detour to Take in a Broadway Show

Part 1: A Brief History of the NYFF and Me Left: full house at the Sept 29 screening of House of Dynamite The last time I attended the Ne...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4h

Lots of interesting/grisly financial detail in this Costner piece. But it's odd that Waterworld is always misremembered as a Heaven's Gate-sized disaster. It was a flop relative to cost, but it grossed $88M in the US in '95--it was the #12 movie of the year.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

How Kevin Costner Lost Hollywood

On-set brawls. Courtroom battles. Epic bombs. Why the world's most bankable cowboy is suddenly shooting blanks.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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

Aw, damn.

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

Look who was at Beyond Fest this year! Major FOMO.

More details: www.instagram.com/p/DPhyfiCkuBb

Image of Meiko Kaji at Beyond Fest looking happy and healthy.

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We kicked off our Meiko Kaji last Thursday during @beyondfest with a sold out LADY SNOWBLOOD double feature at the Egyptian 🤍❄️🩸

Meiko Kaji was stunned by the reception you all gave her + we couldn’t be more grateful to have hosted her first U.S. appearance.

Thank you to Jen Yamato @jenyamato for moderating + to Marie Iida @marieiida for translating.

📸: @minakrhodes

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anothercultland @anothercultland.bsky.social · 16h

ATTN: @kcfennessy.bsky.social MEIKO KAJI ALERT 🚨

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 16h

Choosing a horror queen:

Meiko Kaji as Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion. She wears a long black coat and wide, flat-brimmed hat and a glowering expression

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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 21h

Kaleb’s Los Angeles memorial will be held this Thursday afternoon. If you cared about him and would like to send flowers or well wishes, DM me for delivery instructions etc

Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 11d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 22h

The Janovitz Cars book really raises the bar on music bios. This is how you do a meat & potatoes, context-rich, loving but nonhagiographic deep dive into a band’s history. Funny, idiosyncratic, w a strong sense that it was written/researched by a *musician* while also accessible to a gen audience.

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Tacoma! Got some good news for you: the Tacoma Film Festival kicks off this week @thegrandcinema.bsky.social with the essential WTO/99 and I'm moderating a Q&A with director Ian following the 7 p.m. Thursday showing. Be there to see then talk one of 2025’s most vital documentaries 📽️

A poster for Ian's Bell documentary film WTO/99 with a group of peaceful protestors sitting opposite armored police in Seattle 1999.

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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing the nominees for the Seattle Film Critics Society's 2025 Best Pacific Northwest Film award with a screening series at @siffnews.bsky.social

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be moderating Seattle Film Society's In Focus showcase of the short documentaries of Georgia Krause on Thurs, Oct 16, at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social (SFC is unrelated to @seattlecritics.bsky.social, though we collaborate on occasion).

Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6720305

TICKETS
Seattle Film Society In Focus: Georgia Krause
(Georgia Krause, United States)

The Seattle Film Society’s IN FOCUS series returns with a showcase for one of the Seattle area’s brightest up and coming documentarians, Emmy-award winner Georgia Krause. We’ll be screening five of Georgia’s short films including their previous Locals Only selection Small Talk. The screening also will be accompanied by a Q&A led by Seattle Film Critics Society President, Kathy Fennessy.

Films in this program include:
Crown of Thorns

Portrait of a Mechanic
Simmer
Have a Heart
Small Talk

Thu Oct 16: 7.00pm PDT

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 1d

If you’re in the Seattle/Tacoma area, go see this doc. Vital piece of history and one of my favorite films of the year

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Tacoma! Got some good news for you: the Tacoma Film Festival kicks off this week @thegrandcinema.bsky.social with the essential WTO/99 and I'm moderating a Q&A with director Ian following the 7 p.m. Thursday showing. Be there to see then talk one of 2025’s most vital documentaries 📽️

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 1d

That's ... hideous

Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 1d

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming this December on #4K #Steelbook in the US and UK from #WarnerBros: #BoogieNights (1997)!

In this dark, comic drama, a gullible teenager takes a turbulent journey through the worlds of pornography, disco and fleeting stardom in the '70s, when drugs were in vogue,

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I think the right move here is the same as the right move for any journalist working for a suspect new boss (which has happened to almost all of us): Do exactly what you would ordinarily do, exactly the way you would ordinarily do it, until you are told point-blank that you can't. Then ask why.

David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

The View segment where Whoopi asked how ordinary people could read SCOTUS opinions was revealing.

They're free. They're online. They're much easier to read than legislation. Conquer your imposter's syndrome, you are smart enough to read a decision and know if it's bullshit.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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pork ghoul 👻 @skirkle.bsky.social · 1d

Someone posted this after he died, and the idea has been rattling around my head ever since as I try not to feel like an asshole for not doing enough

Kaleb Horton: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Alt text your fucking god damn images, people.

Fascism feeds on and is built upon eugenics.

Cutting disabled people out of information only helps it grow.

Stop being both inaccessible AND complict.

Add Alt Text.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cabaret Voltaire there on Halloween night during the 1987 CMJ Convention.

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1d

Memories, For Sale Or Lease. Tonight, 20th Street and 6th Avenue.

The deconsecrated church that once housed a club called Limelight.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

And did he have to keep asking about everyone's jump shot?!

🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

Writer/director Scott Cooper, Jeremy Allen White, and programmer Rachel Rosen at #NYFF63. I've read Bruce's memoir, but I haven't read Warren Zanes' Deliver Me from Nowhere. I found the film affecting; White and Stephen Graham, as his father, are particularly strong. Love the Suicide (band) scene.

Two guys next to me were amused by Cooper's wide-legged pants. Eh, he looks comfortable, and it's not like they're bright green or something.

Cooper, White, and Rosen. White has brown contact lenses and darker hair in the film. He doesn't look exactly like Bruce, but he comes close enough.

Cooper did most of the talking, but White had good things to say, mostly about having Bruce on set at all times.

Cooper and White laughing about something, but I forget what. White got a standing ovation at or near the end.

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