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Pod quiz, hot shot: The inimitable @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins the pod for a lively chat about the glories of SPEED (1994)! We get into: repetition compulsion & classical Hollywood storytelling, Keanu’s peak hotness, does Jeff Daniels close his eyes?, what it means to “become bomb” & more...

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With Scarecrow currently on Criterion, I'm reposting my piece for @bwdr.bsky.social on the most downer buddy movie of all time. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/03/16/b...

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There’s nothing that makes me laugh harder than this franchise, and I think it’s because there’s nothing quite like laughing with your friends; and that to me is the guiding truth of this series. Put differently, nothing says I love you like batting a ball at your best pal’s privates.

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The Devil In the Details: The Stiflingly Chic Interiors of ROSEMARY'S BABY

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A couple summers ago, I taught a JACKASS-themed Word West writing workshop. Every week, we'd chat about one of the movies for an hour, then workshop their stories. It was the best! For many reasons, "it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it" big among them.

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SPEED pod coming your way within the hour…

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It was an absolute treat creating the illustration to accompany the wonderful essay by @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social on JACKASS for the @bwdr.bsky.social Community issue. Go and check it out: brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/05/30/lau… Big thanks to @aheartofgould.bsky.social for the opportunity!

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This is excellent. As with JACKASS itself, move beyond the preconceptions you might have.

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me realizing via googling that “cinema” is very similar to the word “kinetic” for a reason

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that's why i refuse to use baby talk and only refer them as "cinema". now to take a big sip of coffee and look up that word's etymology

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(Pops head up, leaves clinging to hair) "Movies" was originally a slang term that could be derogatory and applied to both motion pictures and the people who made them.

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It’s pretty funny that they’re called Movies

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Second this, and noting that the screenshot picked to highlight it below is the exact screenshot I made to do the same.

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Hi, I'm Natalie Marlin, and this is Laughing With The Pain (my @bwdr.bsky.social essay on Jackass being an unconventional form of community, finding queer belonging, and displacing the prevalence of trans pain)

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"I seem to have lost the reality of the reality."

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"David Lynch’s second feature traces the bulges & abscesses of humanity’s endless ballet through beauty and ugliness, often in the same gesture. It is a portrait of totalizing alienation which, having sculpted the ugliest garments humanity clads its lumpen self in, chooses grace instead of despair."

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loved editing @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social's piece on Jackass's resonances within the trans community ... give this one a read!

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New today on the site! The Community issue continues, with @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social on love, laughter, connection, and community in the JACKASS franchise: "One of JACKASS's perpetual charms is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it."

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I wrote about watching movies with my Dad.

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Other streaming services: “Don’t share your password.” “Pay more for ad-free.” “Bundle to save.” Kanopy: “Have a library card? Cool. Press play.”

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Love this writing from @eccantwell.bsky.social w/ excellent observations about the role of tech… “eXistenZ opens in a world that we only later discover to be a simulation occurring inside of a virtual reality game (we think?). @bwdr.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/08/a...

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contrary to previous reports that i would “never write a book again” because “writing biographies is for insane people” i have in fact been working on book no. 2 for a bit now, because for better or worse, i am one of those insane people

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This new essay from @jadiestills.bsky.social on Tom Cruise is really something else, really loved it

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Great writing.

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A new Wes Anderson box set from Criterion, available 9/30/25! “This momentous twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over twenty-five hours of special features, and ten illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition.” www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208...

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first for bsky and first for @bwdr.bsky.social! an honor to go long and crazy on the "last" allegedly human movie star.

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very into this piece we published today!

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my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

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I love this piece so much, a delight and thrill to edit. Jadie is the best!

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New today on the site! "The Entity: On the Technologies of Late Cruisedom" - Jadie Stillwell (art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)

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"After years spent studying Ophüls' THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE, I've come to realize that collaboration with oppressive leaders & systems is stunningly normal and far from extraordinary."

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Marcel Ophuls has died. son of the great, Max Ophuls, and an incredible filmmaker in his own right. The Sorrow and the Pity is one of the best documentaries ever made.

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Songs from Wes Anderson Movies 🧵 2000 Man - The Rolling Stones (from Bottle Rocket, 1996)

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"I don’t think I’ve lived a single day of adult life in which BROADCAST NEWS did not cross my mind. It’s a film so highly specific that it feels purpose-built for imprinting itself on your consciousness, stuffed with little details that are so weird you can’t compare them to anything but real life."

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“If we look at A Ghost Story in this way, as a poem of a film in a world full of prose, it becomes necessary to talk about it in a different way, too. Not as something that needs to be wrestled to the ground, but instead as something to be experienced.”

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"This is a still from Charles Chaplin’s 1940 film, THE GREAT DICTATOR. It occurs at approximately the 1:59:32 mark. If our home releases and prints are different, the most important context for this essay is that we discuss the split second before Charles Chaplin speaks the film’s final speech."

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"Modern life makes it incredibly easy to silo our entire existence, living with an infinite supply of entertainment and self-help guides at our fingertips, a simulacrum of human interaction beamed directly into our smartphones throughout the day."

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New today on the site! Our Community issue continues, with Ross McIndoe on MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

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