🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️
@kcfennessy.bsky.social
Music and film writer. Seattle Film Critics Society president and Northwest Film Forum board member. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW Local 46. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock & Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
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As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this:
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this:
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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🚨buy a ticket to this RIGHT NOW🚨
Join us Thursday, November 20, at 6:45pm for a special screening of IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, with director Jafar Panahi scheduled to attend in person for a post-film Q&A.
Tickets and more information: siff.info/justanaccident-bsky.
Tickets and more information: siff.info/justanaccident-bsky.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🚨buy a ticket to this RIGHT NOW🚨
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It's not over yet, but this is a good sign for Wilson. Every vote counts. If you voted in King County, please check your ballot status at the link below. I've had my signature flagged in the past, and it was very easy to resolve the matter.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It's not over yet, but this is a good sign for Wilson. Every vote counts. If you voted in King County, please check your ballot status at the link below. I've had my signature flagged in the past, and it was very easy to resolve the matter.
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Lowkey my fav Assayas. Teen rebellion, Roxy Music, fire.
I just bought his memoir about being a teen circa May ’68, a few years before the era he depicts here.
I just bought his memoir about being a teen circa May ’68, a few years before the era he depicts here.
Now playing (10:45 AM PST):
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Lowkey my fav Assayas. Teen rebellion, Roxy Music, fire.
I just bought his memoir about being a teen circa May ’68, a few years before the era he depicts here.
I just bought his memoir about being a teen circa May ’68, a few years before the era he depicts here.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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Bertrand Bonello's next film is Santo Subito!, starring Mark Ruffalo as a priest investigating Pope John Paul II and set to shoot this March:
Mark Ruffalo to Star in Bertrand Bonello’s Next Feature
Update: Variety confirms Bonello will direct Ruffalo in Santo Subito!, which concerns Father Joseph Murolo, an American priest dispatched to the Vatican to act as a "devil's advocate" after Pope John ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Bertrand Bonello's next film is Santo Subito!, starring Mark Ruffalo as a priest investigating Pope John Paul II and set to shoot this March:
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Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
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Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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You know what early silent films definitely did better than anyone since? Guys in weird outfits hopping around. Can we bring that back? There's something sort of grotesque about it that is really interesting to watch.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
You know what early silent films definitely did better than anyone since? Guys in weird outfits hopping around. Can we bring that back? There's something sort of grotesque about it that is really interesting to watch.
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The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.
So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Schumer would not endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. That should tell you everything about what happened this evening. a shanda
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Schumer would not endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. That should tell you everything about what happened this evening. a shanda
This was the gist of my review. Explains a lot of Bruce songs, not just those on Nebraska.
"He [Doug] lived in the supposed heyday of American working-class prosperity... Despite all this, he suffered in the same ways--feeling undervalued, becoming angry, withdrawn, defeated--as so many men today."
"He [Doug] lived in the supposed heyday of American working-class prosperity... Despite all this, he suffered in the same ways--feeling undervalued, becoming angry, withdrawn, defeated--as so many men today."
Opinion | Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This was the gist of my review. Explains a lot of Bruce songs, not just those on Nebraska.
"He [Doug] lived in the supposed heyday of American working-class prosperity... Despite all this, he suffered in the same ways--feeling undervalued, becoming angry, withdrawn, defeated--as so many men today."
"He [Doug] lived in the supposed heyday of American working-class prosperity... Despite all this, he suffered in the same ways--feeling undervalued, becoming angry, withdrawn, defeated--as so many men today."
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BREAKING: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has said: "Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced"
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
BREAKING: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has said: "Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced"
I wrote about Ira Sachs' two-hander Peter Hujar's Day when it played at this year's New York Film Festival. Sachs appeared at the screening I attended, and cited Portrait of Jason and My Sister's Wedding as inspirations. It's very good, and opens on Friday at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center.
Part two of my #NYFF63 diary. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
(This man, the real-deal Peter Hujar, does not appear on screen.)
(This man, the real-deal Peter Hujar, does not appear on screen.)
63rd New York Film Festival Snapshot, Part 2: Ira Sachs' 1970s Reverie <i>Peter Hujar's Day</i>
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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November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I wrote about Ira Sachs' two-hander Peter Hujar's Day when it played at this year's New York Film Festival. Sachs appeared at the screening I attended, and cited Portrait of Jason and My Sister's Wedding as inspirations. It's very good, and opens on Friday at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
Seisaku's Wife seen at #NYFF63 via Janus, which could mean a Criterion release. Arrow has done yeoman's work getting Masumura's work out there, but he still feels like an underdog relevant to his talent. The film is a female revenger with Ayako Wakao in peak form. Takahiro Tamura: also excellent.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Seisaku's Wife seen at #NYFF63 via Janus, which could mean a Criterion release. Arrow has done yeoman's work getting Masumura's work out there, but he still feels like an underdog relevant to his talent. The film is a female revenger with Ayako Wakao in peak form. Takahiro Tamura: also excellent.
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Seems like if you’re OpenAI this is the sort of thing you immediately quash because it’s terrible publicity *unless* this sort of thing is a substantial portion of your business volume
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Seems like if you’re OpenAI this is the sort of thing you immediately quash because it’s terrible publicity *unless* this sort of thing is a substantial portion of your business volume
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When Andre cries I cry
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
When Andre cries I cry
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Watching THE LOWDOWN (which is terrific) and this came on the soundtrack (also terrific, A1 use of music) and I immediately thought "this is the kind of thing @helenehoffman.bsky.social wins @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social Golden Beats with"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTC...
Bad News
YouTube video by Julie Durocher - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Watching THE LOWDOWN (which is terrific) and this came on the soundtrack (also terrific, A1 use of music) and I immediately thought "this is the kind of thing @helenehoffman.bsky.social wins @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social Golden Beats with"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTC...