Melissa Tamminga
@oneaprilday.bsky.social
She/her. Programming Director at http://pickfordfilmcenter.org Posts my own. Formerly Film and English faculty at Whatcom Community College. Also on Letterboxd as oneaprilday. And on IG as mdtamminga
Wake Up Dead Man is coming to @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social at our brand new second location on Grand Ave. Such a fun movie to see with a crowd — had a blast when I saw it with a full house at TIFF
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is coming to @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social at our brand new second location on Grand Ave. Such a fun movie to see with a crowd — had a blast when I saw it with a full house at TIFF
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Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Website | November 27 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on the official site. In theaters November 27 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Rian Johnson. St...
www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social. Am calling raw milk “swill milk” from now on.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social. Am calling raw milk “swill milk” from now on.
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Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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Hey Seattle, the time is now here for you to see HAPPYEND as it opens today @nwfilmforum.bsky.social. It's a great fiction feature debut from Neo Sora that any discussion of 2025 in film would be remiss not to include. Go see it then read my review or read my review then see it. Just see it ASAP 📽️
HAPPYEND: Don't sleep on Neo Sora’s fiction feature debut as it's a poetic portrait of youth in crisis. The kids are more than alright – though their world is not in this quietly incisive snapshot of a film that really snuck up on me 📽️
My #TIFF2024 review: www.thewrap.com/happyend-rev...
My #TIFF2024 review: www.thewrap.com/happyend-rev...
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hey Seattle, the time is now here for you to see HAPPYEND as it opens today @nwfilmforum.bsky.social. It's a great fiction feature debut from Neo Sora that any discussion of 2025 in film would be remiss not to include. Go see it then read my review or read my review then see it. Just see it ASAP 📽️
Proud of the program I curated this year with my co-programmers, Jane Julian and Lesley Schroeder, for the @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social’s Doctober Film Festival and so
pleased to see this coverage from Cascadia Daily News, highlighting some terrific docs:
www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/08/...
pleased to see this coverage from Cascadia Daily News, highlighting some terrific docs:
www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/08/...
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Proud of the program I curated this year with my co-programmers, Jane Julian and Lesley Schroeder, for the @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social’s Doctober Film Festival and so
pleased to see this coverage from Cascadia Daily News, highlighting some terrific docs:
www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/08/...
pleased to see this coverage from Cascadia Daily News, highlighting some terrific docs:
www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/08/...
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A great-movie avalanche lately continues for me with new films by Joachim Trier and Lynne Ramsay. (The four main performances in the former are just astoundingly good.) And @kphipps3000.bsky.social gets a good performance, too, in only a so-so biopic. thereveal.film/in-review-se...
In Review: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Die My Love,’ ‘Christy’
Our second batch of new-release reviews includes a complex family drama, Jennifer Lawrence as a woman on the edge, and Sydney Sweeney suiting up for a boxing biopic.
thereveal.film
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A great-movie avalanche lately continues for me with new films by Joachim Trier and Lynne Ramsay. (The four main performances in the former are just astoundingly good.) And @kphipps3000.bsky.social gets a good performance, too, in only a so-so biopic. thereveal.film/in-review-se...
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Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.
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Carol's not getting EBT this month. Lots of people in need but the thing is, she's, you know, a mate. And if you saw SKINAMARINK it can somehow be traced back to her Lboxd post. So if you can give, give, and if you can give more, give more.
If any of you care, my venmo is [at]carol-grant-10 I could really use food money
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Carol's not getting EBT this month. Lots of people in need but the thing is, she's, you know, a mate. And if you saw SKINAMARINK it can somehow be traced back to her Lboxd post. So if you can give, give, and if you can give more, give more.
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On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.
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Today at The Reveal, I rank the nine films of Kelly Reichardt, which range from very very good to outstanding, because she's just that consistent. The list is really just an excuse to take stock of a brilliant career that almost wasn't. thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...
Worst to Best: The Films of Kelly Reichardt
From one of America's best independent filmmakers, even the worst film is essential viewing.
thereveal.film
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Today at The Reveal, I rank the nine films of Kelly Reichardt, which range from very very good to outstanding, because she's just that consistent. The list is really just an excuse to take stock of a brilliant career that almost wasn't. thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...
New sketch from my friend Everett Aison.
He occasionally sends me drawings by mail and I love them so much.
(More about Everett here: pleasureboatstudio.com/featured-aut... )
He occasionally sends me drawings by mail and I love them so much.
(More about Everett here: pleasureboatstudio.com/featured-aut... )
October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New sketch from my friend Everett Aison.
He occasionally sends me drawings by mail and I love them so much.
(More about Everett here: pleasureboatstudio.com/featured-aut... )
He occasionally sends me drawings by mail and I love them so much.
(More about Everett here: pleasureboatstudio.com/featured-aut... )
Such a good film.
(PNW folks can catch it at the Pickford this Saturday. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche... )
(PNW folks can catch it at the Pickford this Saturday. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche... )
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Such a good film.
(PNW folks can catch it at the Pickford this Saturday. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche... )
(PNW folks can catch it at the Pickford this Saturday. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche... )
Such a lovely lovely interview
If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...
Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen
The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.
thereveal.film
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Such a lovely lovely interview
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Along with directing an episode of TWIN PEAKS, Diane Keaton also directed four movies (one doc, three features).
I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.
I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Along with directing an episode of TWIN PEAKS, Diane Keaton also directed four movies (one doc, three features).
I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.
I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.
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These days I can no longer be shocked; *of course* a flashy provocateur who was never any kind of real journalist to begin with is now entrusted to become an editor -- an editor! -- at CBS News
These days I can no longer be shocked; *of course* a flashy reporter who spectacularly compromised her journalistic integrity via a played-out Hollywood cliché (getting romantic with her subject) is now entrusted to become an editor -- an editor! -- at Vanity Fair
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
These days I can no longer be shocked; *of course* a flashy provocateur who was never any kind of real journalist to begin with is now entrusted to become an editor -- an editor! -- at CBS News
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New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC.
Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.
Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.
ij.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC.
Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.
Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.
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Someone have me on your podcast to talk about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Someone have me on your podcast to talk about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.
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I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector
September 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector
We’re playing Chain Reactions @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social on Oct 4. Director Alexandre Philippe will be in attendance for a Q&A. Can’t wait!
Criticism is under attack, but Chain Reactions fights right back. Five great cases for film criticism, woven into a single movie! www.avclub.com/chain-reacti...
Chain Reactions arms film criticism with a chainsaw
Five interviewees give The Texas Chain Saw Massacre the autopsy it deserves in the criticism-affirming Chain Reactions.
www.avclub.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We’re playing Chain Reactions @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social on Oct 4. Director Alexandre Philippe will be in attendance for a Q&A. Can’t wait!
Playing this Sat/Sun @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social !
Jim Henson, David Bowie, and Jennifer Connelly on the set of LABYRINTH (1986)
Henson was BOTD in 1936
Henson was BOTD in 1936
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Playing this Sat/Sun @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social !
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2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"