🎥 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.
Lance (Robin Williams), porno mags, and a Nirvana bassist.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Lance (Robin Williams), porno mags, and a Nirvana bassist.
Gets yr clothes *wicked* clean.
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Gets yr clothes *wicked* clean.
Always exciting when Law & Order welcomes a new cast member, not least since Reid Scott has been on his own for six episodes. Near as I can tell, Ajala is the first British actor in the detective spot (it's less unusual to find British actors, like Linus Roache and Hugh Dancy, as EADA).
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Always exciting when Law & Order welcomes a new cast member, not least since Reid Scott has been on his own for six episodes. Near as I can tell, Ajala is the first British actor in the detective spot (it's less unusual to find British actors, like Linus Roache and Hugh Dancy, as EADA).
Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
Semi-fun fact: the one time I visited Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI--the tiny speck in the second window from the right--was the guy. Not a fave, though I can say he blessed me, since he blessed everyone that day. That said, I was never Baptized, so...it was mostly just a nice day in the sun.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Semi-fun fact: the one time I visited Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI--the tiny speck in the second window from the right--was the guy. Not a fave, though I can say he blessed me, since he blessed everyone that day. That said, I was never Baptized, so...it was mostly just a nice day in the sun.
#LetterboxdFriday Last Eight Watched: Awards Season Edition. Grateful to Netflix for preview theatrical screenings; I've taken advantage of most. Despite Hugo erasure (and unnecessary Aster/Safdie Bros inclusion), I loved Mr. Scorsese. Pretty good week overall.
The Flamingo: tinyurl.com/27evhzpz
The Flamingo: tinyurl.com/27evhzpz
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#LetterboxdFriday Last Eight Watched: Awards Season Edition. Grateful to Netflix for preview theatrical screenings; I've taken advantage of most. Despite Hugo erasure (and unnecessary Aster/Safdie Bros inclusion), I loved Mr. Scorsese. Pretty good week overall.
The Flamingo: tinyurl.com/27evhzpz
The Flamingo: tinyurl.com/27evhzpz
I already own this one, which I forgot to wear on Halloween. 🦇
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I already own this one, which I forgot to wear on Halloween. 🦇
Pretty sure I need this sweatshirt. Says "casse-toi."
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Pretty sure I need this sweatshirt. Says "casse-toi."
Soon-to-be-Seattle-Mayor Katie Wilson's grandfather.
![Full text: https://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/w/wilson-sloan
[image of a handsome man at a typewriter]
Wilson, Sloan
Sloan Wilsonby Robert Shenk (2000)
WILSON, SLOAN (1920-2003). Sloan Wilson was a Coast Guard officer before he became a novelist and a yachtsman before he gained a commission in the Coast Guard. He came to regard his Coast Guard experience as more educative than his B.A. from Harvard; the latter two of the three novels that he based on this seagoing service rival in quality his better-known novels, The Man in the the Grey Flannel Suit (1955) and A Summer Place (1958).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kzhe4p6x6j2xjze7byq52eg4/bafkreidrz2lho3ffajvqnfogqj3k4ha52lzzi4az3tdk7ctbbkce5snjy4@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Soon-to-be-Seattle-Mayor Katie Wilson's grandfather.
Unplanned double bill: Mary Bronstein's mumblecore-era Yeast with Greta Gerwig followed by Noah Baumbach's Fellini-goes-Netflix Jay Kelly with Greta Gerwig--who looks much the same even if the films have changed (FWIW, I took a pass on the Baumbach at NYFF, but Justin Chang is right about it).
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Unplanned double bill: Mary Bronstein's mumblecore-era Yeast with Greta Gerwig followed by Noah Baumbach's Fellini-goes-Netflix Jay Kelly with Greta Gerwig--who looks much the same even if the films have changed (FWIW, I took a pass on the Baumbach at NYFF, but Justin Chang is right about it).
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.
Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980).
John (Joseph) Merrick in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980).
John (Joseph) Merrick in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980).
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980).
John (Joseph) Merrick in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980).
John (Joseph) Merrick in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980).
Nina Hoss in Nia DaCosta's Hedda. Costume design by Lindsay Pugh.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Nina Hoss in Nia DaCosta's Hedda. Costume design by Lindsay Pugh.
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Love that Scorsese quotes Michael Powell in Rebecca Miller's doc series.
![[woman] All this filming isn't healthy.
[inhales sharply]
Peeping Tom / 1960 / Directd by Michael Powell](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kzhe4p6x6j2xjze7byq52eg4/bafkreichukght3shdysaavvszdcphesp7nqta3y6okm5ylpuj4c65asnza@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Love that Scorsese quotes Michael Powell in Rebecca Miller's doc series.
Surprisingly, I only found one Kaleb tweet about the Band.
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Surprisingly, I only found one Kaleb tweet about the Band.
At the shoe repair shop.
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
At the shoe repair shop.
Adam with David Church at @secsfest.org.
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Adam with David Church at @secsfest.org.
Thin Lizzy's very good 1971 debut (plus the alternate cover).
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thin Lizzy's very good 1971 debut (plus the alternate cover).
My Zabriskie Point era. Fun fact: those shoes were heavier than lead.
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My Zabriskie Point era. Fun fact: those shoes were heavier than lead.
The new packaging covers the old with the new--perfect!
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The new packaging covers the old with the new--perfect!
#LetterboxdFriday Last Four Watched. So glad Cult Epics changed the His Motorbike cover art for their Blu-ray release. The art below kinda stinks, not least since Miiyo is, in some ways, the strongest character; she isn't some underdressed, passive acolyte.
His Motorbike: tinyurl.com/mwt3zuae
His Motorbike: tinyurl.com/mwt3zuae
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#LetterboxdFriday Last Four Watched. So glad Cult Epics changed the His Motorbike cover art for their Blu-ray release. The art below kinda stinks, not least since Miiyo is, in some ways, the strongest character; she isn't some underdressed, passive acolyte.
His Motorbike: tinyurl.com/mwt3zuae
His Motorbike: tinyurl.com/mwt3zuae
Good advice from Nobuhiko Obayashi.
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Good advice from Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Guy keeps busy! Check out all his editing credits.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Guy keeps busy! Check out all his editing credits.
Another image that may have generated a few clicks, though it didn't hurt that Film at Lincoln Center retweeted my review.
Pro tip: Finnish films from the 1960s offer a lot of sexy imagery.
Pro tip: Finnish films from the 1960s offer a lot of sexy imagery.
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Another image that may have generated a few clicks, though it didn't hurt that Film at Lincoln Center retweeted my review.
Pro tip: Finnish films from the 1960s offer a lot of sexy imagery.
Pro tip: Finnish films from the 1960s offer a lot of sexy imagery.