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Amy Woolsey

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Movies, books, whatever else floats my boat

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/10/2026
The thing about the Social Network is it wasn’t about Facebook, it was about college and dating and power and trying to be cool and betraying your best friend, things of this nature
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The main reason it works, of course, is Haris Zambarloukos's opulent deep-focus cinematography, which turns every room into both a church and a tomb.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Realized after rewatching A Haunting in Venice for spooky season that one of the reasons it works is because Branagh plays Poirot as someone who'd prefer not to talk. Neither he nor the movie is interested in being clever.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As I wrote in my journal, it's hard to imagine the movie being more annoying than the marketing or the discourse. It would be ideal for everyone, I think, if it drops out of the awards race.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1. This has been incredibly obvious and incredibly disheartening to anybody who watches even *close* to as much TV as I do. 2. I sense the regression for directing might be ever worse. 3. That fact that, without a TCA press tour, TV executives have basically NO visible accountability is... bad.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyway, it was nice to see you at the event, if only for a second. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't know what Barnes & Noble's deal is, but Stephen Graham Jones himself told us tonight was the first time Off the Reservation is publicly available! We had to get permission from the publisher to sell it before October 13.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is an exciting group of finalists IMO. I haven't read any of the books, but I am interested in reading them.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Social Network: A story of men who hack into computers because they can't hack into women. Even more disturbing as a time capsule of 2000s youth culture than I remembered and still Reznor and Ross's best score.
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes. Also: What would culture be if we couldn't argue over at least one dude who always goes big and gets high on his own supply? No fun at all, that's what!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
weird of Ellison and Skydance to start their clip reel about the merger of Paramount and Warner with THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
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Angela Woolsey @redporchremnant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I liked The Uprising because it's the closest I've seen any movie get, certainly out of the recent/Trump-era portrayals of class warfare, to the emotional tenor of the revolution scenes in A Tale of Two Cities. "Listen. Can you not hear their rage?"
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sitting down for Primetime at (roughly) primetime 🍿
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3453 is looking back
Bunnies sit at a table outside a cafe, called the Luna Cafe. It is on the surface of the moon, looking at a distant planet earth. They sip from mugs while a third bunny watches from a second floor balcony.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is old English btw
opening to Beowulf
Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter how many times I read it, Christopher Cantwell's essay about Dead Poets Society for @brightwalldarkroom.com is still capable of moving me to tears. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/04/04/i...
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In Defense of Dead Poets Society | Bright Wall/Dark Room
Last night at 11:30, I turned on the TV and Dead Poets Society was just starting. I ended up watching it all the way through, until 2 a.m.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good luck to critics who have to watch Whalefall for work! I saw a 30-second ad on TV and could barely stomach that.
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Angela Woolsey @redporchremnant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I came across this when I was at the Kennedy Center protest on Friday, and however ugly you think it looks online, it's even uglier in person
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Are you alluding to a specific movie?
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve seen some people making comments about not caring about the Kennedy Center, or even wanting it gone, and if you’re not local, maybe sit this one out. It may be an abstraction to you, but to me it’s where I want to take my kids someday to see the symphony, the ballet, touring shows, etc
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That's probably the right choice; I think Resident Evil (in 35mm??) replaced Hope in auditorium 1 anyway. Maybe 10 people were at my screening on Tuesday.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Which did you end up choosing?
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.” —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That episode of Slow Horses should've prepared me for the emotional whiplash of watching Slow Horses and then logging on to find out Annie Dillard has died, but it did not. 💔
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image seemed unusually curved, but I wasn't sure whether the screen itself was different or it was just anamorphic cinematography. If you're in the mood and have time for a rewatch, I'd recommend checking it out, though it looks like Resident Evil is taking over after today.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yep. There's an icon on their website that I've never seen before:
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Watched Hope on "colossal screen" at the Angelika. I'm still not sure exactly what that means, but it looked amazing.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thoughts on some great Emmy wins trapped inside an inept telecast:
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The Worst Emmy Telecast In Years Had Some Great Winners
Rhea Seehorn, Stephen Root, and a whole lot of 'Widow's Bay' love highlighted an ineptly-produced awards show
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Foreword by James Gandolfini"?!
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I like that the separate ceremony gives them time to award more people, including people who aren't necessarily well-known outside the industry, but it should still be televised.
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Angela Woolsey @redporchremnant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is so stupid. It's almost like they drove everyone away and are just using any "fundraising" to line their own pockets
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Among other similarities, both movies demonstrate the importance of having physical environments and actual human background actors. This idea that extras can be replaced by A.I. isn't going to fly.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Odyssey and The Uprising coming out in the same year feels like a meaningful coincidence.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ugh does this mean we have to watch the Hugh Jackman one to compare?
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Entirely by accident, I've assigned a different star rating on Letterboxd to each movie I've watched in September so far.
Letterboxd diary in descending order from most recent to earliest: Kimi (2 stars), Cabaret (5 stars), Dreams in Nightmares (4 stars), Home from the Hill (4.5 stars), Fuze (2.5 stars), We Bury the Dead (3 stars), It Ends (3.5 stars).
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Jonathan Feng @jonfeng1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I would like to get off this roller coaster.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Daisy Ridley and Mark Coles Smith should be in awards contention for We Bury the Dead.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3432 must fly away home
A bunny sits on a toadstool at night. They are looking at a small ladybug-bunny, red and black wings and green eyes. It is outdoors, near a swamp or pond.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
-It's about your daddy. Bread van crashed into him. They said you'd best hurry home to him, lest he should die all alone. -This is impossible! -It's not impossible. Bread vans crash into people all the time. -I know! That's how me mammy died. If it's the same fecking bread van, I'll kill them!
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Great Dictator is one of my current "favorites" on Letterboxd! Such timeless comedy, and then the end makes me weep.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not to encourage the passage of time, but I've never been so ready for fall.
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New Danny Boyle movie 🙂 Shot by Alwin H. Küchler 😃 Scored by Daniel Pemberton 😍
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I haven't rewatched the movie yet but remember finding the score distracting and unnecessary. A movie about amateur baseball should just let me soak in the ambient noise of amateur baseball!
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wish I could watch a version with the music removed.
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James Eat World Sr. @jamesodinwade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
plays are not gay fantasias on national themes enough
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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For those in the D.C. area, AFI Silver is going to be screening Under the Same Sun as part of this year's Latin American Film Festival! 🥳 silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
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UNDER THE SAME SUN | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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Amy Woolsey @amywoolsey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"I will iron your sheets when you iron out the inequities in our labor laws." Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington remains unparalleled sitcom material and political commentary.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*smiling and sweating* our age of bronze is doing great
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