Bright Wall/Dark Room
@bwdr.bsky.social
A different lens on film | An independent, reader-supported film journal
issues & essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
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issues & essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
support: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/subscribe
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
Will this game last longer than Ken Burns BASEBALL y/n?
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Will this game last longer than Ken Burns BASEBALL y/n?
deserve its own post
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
deserve its own post
Tracy Letts should host everything
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Tracy Letts should host everything
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
For our next issue (Nov/Dec), the theme will be: What Is to Be Done?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions
Deadline: 10/19/25
Details:
For our next issue (Nov/Dec), the theme will be: What Is to Be Done?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions
Deadline: 10/19/25
Details:
September 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
For our next issue (Nov/Dec), the theme will be: What Is to Be Done?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions
Deadline: 10/19/25
Details:
For our next issue (Nov/Dec), the theme will be: What Is to Be Done?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions
Deadline: 10/19/25
Details:
September 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
If you’re in Seattle and love physical media, head over to @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social today for their annual Parking Lot Sale! It’s going until 6pm!!
September 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you’re in Seattle and love physical media, head over to @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social today for their annual Parking Lot Sale! It’s going until 6pm!!
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
one of those moments when you thank the universe for movies
August 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
one of those moments when you thank the universe for movies
If we did a monthly movie club—announced a movie & gave everybody 2 weeks to watch it and discuss it on discord with us, and then did a live zoom conversation about it—would you be interested?
August 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If we did a monthly movie club—announced a movie & gave everybody 2 weeks to watch it and discuss it on discord with us, and then did a live zoom conversation about it—would you be interested?
Includes coverage of:
LA RONDE
MY MAN GODFREY
CANYON PASSAGE (Tourneur)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Lang)
THE CITY (silent 1919 documentary)
HUE AND CRY
HARDLY A CRIMINAL
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!
(And the mystery final screening: “Blind Date with Nitrate")
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/18/i...
LA RONDE
MY MAN GODFREY
CANYON PASSAGE (Tourneur)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Lang)
THE CITY (silent 1919 documentary)
HUE AND CRY
HARDLY A CRIMINAL
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!
(And the mystery final screening: “Blind Date with Nitrate")
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/18/i...
July 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Includes coverage of:
LA RONDE
MY MAN GODFREY
CANYON PASSAGE (Tourneur)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Lang)
THE CITY (silent 1919 documentary)
HUE AND CRY
HARDLY A CRIMINAL
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!
(And the mystery final screening: “Blind Date with Nitrate")
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/18/i...
LA RONDE
MY MAN GODFREY
CANYON PASSAGE (Tourneur)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Lang)
THE CITY (silent 1919 documentary)
HUE AND CRY
HARDLY A CRIMINAL
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!
(And the mystery final screening: “Blind Date with Nitrate")
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/18/i...
“I’m fascinated by the way STOP MAKING SENSE manages to communicate the possibility of existential revolt—the way it turns song and performance, alchemically, into resistance in the face of absurdity.” - @eccantwell.bsky.social
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/11/s...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/11/s...
July 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“I’m fascinated by the way STOP MAKING SENSE manages to communicate the possibility of existential revolt—the way it turns song and performance, alchemically, into resistance in the face of absurdity.” - @eccantwell.bsky.social
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/11/s...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/07/11/s...
sometimes we’ll get regular essay submissions and be like
July 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
sometimes we’ll get regular essay submissions and be like
Jonathan Demme issue starts next week!
July 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Jonathan Demme issue starts next week!
