Travis Woods
@aheartofgould.bsky.social
Professional obsessive.
BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
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BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
https://linktr.ee/black_neon
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Travis Woods
@aheartofgould.bsky.social
· Aug 13
As a long, hot summer pivots towards its sweaty end, Travis Woods presents an erotic thriller double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with complementary hidden gems. boxd.it/2FS
I made my @letterboxd.social debut writing about the genre that handcuffs sex to danger, noir to romance: the Erotic Thriller.
This primer body doubles 10 classics with 10 rarities. Make a new watchlist as this long, hot summer draws to a close--films meant to be watched in, and by, the dark.
This primer body doubles 10 classics with 10 rarities. Make a new watchlist as this long, hot summer draws to a close--films meant to be watched in, and by, the dark.
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New To Us: Jacques Deray's Symphony for a Massacre
A slice of Melville via Elevator to the Gallows
Possibly his best film!
Excellent @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration w/ @aheartofgould.bsky.social commentary & new @christinalefou.bsky.social intro: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/sym...
A slice of Melville via Elevator to the Gallows
Possibly his best film!
Excellent @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration w/ @aheartofgould.bsky.social commentary & new @christinalefou.bsky.social intro: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/sym...
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New To Us: Jacques Deray's Symphony for a Massacre
A slice of Melville via Elevator to the Gallows
Possibly his best film!
Excellent @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration w/ @aheartofgould.bsky.social commentary & new @christinalefou.bsky.social intro: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/sym...
A slice of Melville via Elevator to the Gallows
Possibly his best film!
Excellent @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration w/ @aheartofgould.bsky.social commentary & new @christinalefou.bsky.social intro: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/sym...
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ICYMI:
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ICYMI:
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
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Hello Loneliness, I Think I’m Gonna Die: Bob Fosse’s Dance with the Five Stages of Grief in ALL THAT JAZZ
All That Jazz (1979): Hello Loneliness, I Think I'm Gonna Die
Bob Fosse's 'All that Jazz' is at once a confession, a self-promotion, a showbiz love letter, an apology, and a middle finger.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Hello Loneliness, I Think I’m Gonna Die: Bob Fosse’s Dance with the Five Stages of Grief in ALL THAT JAZZ
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God I love this film and love Fosse.
#AllThatJazz
I want to see it on the big screen some day
#movies #filmsky
#AllThatJazz
I want to see it on the big screen some day
#movies #filmsky
Hello Loneliness, I Think I’m Gonna Die: Bob Fosse’s Dance with the Five Stages of Grief in ALL THAT JAZZ
All That Jazz (1979): Hello Loneliness, I Think I'm Gonna Die
Bob Fosse's 'All that Jazz' is at once a confession, a self-promotion, a showbiz love letter, an apology, and a middle finger.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
God I love this film and love Fosse.
#AllThatJazz
I want to see it on the big screen some day
#movies #filmsky
#AllThatJazz
I want to see it on the big screen some day
#movies #filmsky
Farewell to the incredible Udo Kier, who I first discovered after stealing Madonna’s SEX book from a Waldenbooks when I was 12.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Farewell to the incredible Udo Kier, who I first discovered after stealing Madonna’s SEX book from a Waldenbooks when I was 12.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
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Thanks to all of YOU, we’ve almost got Q1 locked down for next year, but we’d love to make it “we’ve got 2026 locked down” so if you’re looking for something to support and/or find benefit in what BWDR provides, we’d love to have you join us as a subscriber!
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Thanks to all of YOU, we’ve almost got Q1 locked down for next year, but we’d love to make it “we’ve got 2026 locked down” so if you’re looking for something to support and/or find benefit in what BWDR provides, we’d love to have you join us as a subscriber!
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🎁Well, it's birthday week! My goal for birthday week? Sell one print for every year I've trodden this earth, plus one for the year to come. 43 in all. Can I do it? Let's see!
(Now is also the time to place holiday orders so they actually arrive for the holidays!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
(Now is also the time to place holiday orders so they actually arrive for the holidays!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎁Well, it's birthday week! My goal for birthday week? Sell one print for every year I've trodden this earth, plus one for the year to come. 43 in all. Can I do it? Let's see!
(Now is also the time to place holiday orders so they actually arrive for the holidays!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
(Now is also the time to place holiday orders so they actually arrive for the holidays!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
ICYMI:
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ICYMI:
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
For @letterboxd.social Journal, I thematically paired 10 classic films noir with 10 neo-noirs to close out your final week of #Noirvember viewing:
letterboxd.com/journal/film...
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Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
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As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
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The Replacements' landmark Let It Be gets a triple-disc Super Deluxe Edition. My review is in my latest newsletter:
The Replacements, Let It Be [Super Deluxe]
The band's 1984 landmark gets a triple-disc Super Deluxe Edition.
sterlewine.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Replacements' landmark Let It Be gets a triple-disc Super Deluxe Edition. My review is in my latest newsletter:
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If you're doing a best books of the year round up, just saying I think my book is pretty good. . . .
Marya E. Gates
Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words A collection of profiles, interviews, and definitive cinematic images, Cinema Her Way shines a light on female filmmakers who have made…
maryaegates.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you're doing a best books of the year round up, just saying I think my book is pretty good. . . .
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The annual Ho-Ho-Holiday Sale is underway at MZS.Press arts bookstore. we've chosen items for maximum gift-ability. We *automatically* upgrade USPS shipping one level (yes, you read that right!). All orders packed with obsessive care. And we put little extras in there, too! mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The annual Ho-Ho-Holiday Sale is underway at MZS.Press arts bookstore. we've chosen items for maximum gift-ability. We *automatically* upgrade USPS shipping one level (yes, you read that right!). All orders packed with obsessive care. And we put little extras in there, too! mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
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One final bump for my TCM program tonight. I hope you'll be able to check it out. Love y'all.
My prime time program with TCM on November 17th covers Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME and the Gay Bar Christmas Picture SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE. SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE doesn't screen anywhere very often and doesn't have a DVD in circulation.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One final bump for my TCM program tonight. I hope you'll be able to check it out. Love y'all.
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some brilliant pairings in this list
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
some brilliant pairings in this list
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This is EXCELLENT.
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is EXCELLENT.
Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
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Kubrick Part Two is live now! We continue our epic discussion of the filmmaker’s work from 2001 to EYES WIDE SHUT! Kubrick the visionary:
pocketcasts.com/podcast/pure...
@elrickane.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social
pocketcasts.com/podcast/pure...
@elrickane.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Kubrick Part Two is live now! We continue our epic discussion of the filmmaker’s work from 2001 to EYES WIDE SHUT! Kubrick the visionary:
pocketcasts.com/podcast/pure...
@elrickane.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social
pocketcasts.com/podcast/pure...
@elrickane.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social
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Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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It’s reel time. How many films can you spot in this December @newbeverly.bsky.social sneak peek? 🎄✂️🎞️ vimeo.com/1137371932
New Beverly Cinema - December 2025
Because We Love Showing Movies. Edited by @jeffsmithhere.
vimeo.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s reel time. How many films can you spot in this December @newbeverly.bsky.social sneak peek? 🎄✂️🎞️ vimeo.com/1137371932
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Getting a BWDR subscription has only been great for me. They publish the kind of smart, thoughtful analysis that is becoming increasingly hard to find/fund.
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Getting a BWDR subscription has only been great for me. They publish the kind of smart, thoughtful analysis that is becoming increasingly hard to find/fund.
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One of the kindest, most thoughtful, committed platforms for film writing out there. You get so much beauty with a subscription!
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One of the kindest, most thoughtful, committed platforms for film writing out there. You get so much beauty with a subscription!
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One of my go-to criticism sites. Consistently engaged, thoughtful, heartfelt writing. Good podcast, too!
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of my go-to criticism sites. Consistently engaged, thoughtful, heartfelt writing. Good podcast, too!