Melissa Tamminga
@oneaprilday
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She/her. Program Director at https://t.co/mGIu1FkXJ2 Tweets my own. Also on Letterboxd & Bluesky as oneaprilday. And on IG as mdtamminga
WA state
Joined February 2009
Some personal/professional news: I start as Program Director at the Pickford Film Center tomorrow. It’s the Bellingham arthouse that has been my cinematic home for many years. I’m still pinching myself that’s it’s where I get to go to work! https://t.co/2hWxGx0plT
whatcomtalk.com
Pickford Film Center welcomes new Programming Director Melissa Tamminga.
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Feeling despondent. If you are an editor who wants to work with me, let’s do it soon. My time is running out. My only hope of staying in this country is if a publication or any job wants to hire me full time & sponsor me for a green card. A long shot. But the only shot I got.
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The media this morning saying Dems need to have a reckoning. No, we don't. We can't be blamed because we expected Americans to be who they always claim they are. Democrats don't have a messaging problem. America has a racism problem.
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My feed is already filled with people tripping over each other to pinpoint exactly what Harris did to fuck this up, rather than facing how fucked up it is that so many people would vote for a convicted felon and rapist rather than a qualified woman of color.
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HUGE NEWS: Johnson County, Iowa's most Democratic county, is on track to shatter turnout records tonight. if you are in line to vote, please stay in line! We had a US House race decided by only six votes here in 2020, your ballot could make the difference.
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JANET PLANET, which is for my money the best feature directorial debut of the year so far, is now on HBO MAX.
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NO OTHER LAND enrages as it exposes Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Two of its co-directors, @basel_adra and @yuval_abraham, discussed structural violence, apartheid reality. and the role of the camera in their resistance:
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The filmmakers behind one of this year's most powerful documentaries details the urgency of documenting war crimes in Gaza.
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This election will end in one of two ways: either Trump or Harris will win. Not the first to say this, but if you think not voting (or voting 3rd party) is a meaningful way to protest what’s happening in Gaza & being done to Palestinians, you’re delusional. & privileged. AND >>>
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Already cancelled the NYT and LA Times, so I guess we’re on a roll More grateful than ever for the independent journalists and other outlets that have become the staples of my media diet
NEWS: The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's presidential race, the editor of the editorial pages has told colleagues at a tense meeting this morning THREAD AND LINK:
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Soooo excited about this. Film Is Truth video store with its 22,000 titles is open again and now housed at the Pickford Film Center:
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Everyone's piling on 'Megalopolis' and 'Joker: Folie à Deux.' They're not the 2024 flops I worry about. Column, giftlink here:
chicagotribune.com
Set aside for a moment what movies have made or lost money so far in 2024. Some big-budget sequels like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” did well at the box office but were failures in my book.
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Eric is right: don’t miss them! Pls find them in whatever city near you they are playing. Bellingham friends, they will be screening at our Doctober Film Festival: one more showing of No Other Land Oct. 13, one more showing of Union Oct. 25: https://t.co/98wvZUFAtw
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Two of the most essential, bracing documentaries of the year — NO OTHER LAND and UNION — will be self-distributed this season. They must be seen.
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Our latest is on the State's secretive arms pipeline to Israel, what senior leaders knew about civilian harm and when, and how they've rushed weapons out the door since Oct 7 anyway — over internal legal objections. A quick thread on the reporting:
propublica.org
Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll...
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Do yourself a favor and watch WE GROWN NOW, an affecting, beautifully crafted portrait of two kids navigating Cabrini-Green.
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Alternatively, I could be happy that my 15-yr old texted our family group chat today & said “oh no! maggie smith died??” 100% guarantee she would not be saying anything at all about her w/o the Potter films Incidentally, my only knowledge of Guinness as a teen was as Obi-Wan
Sad to think that an entire generation of great British actors will primarily be remembered for playing bits in Harry Potter films.
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I desperately want to write a longer-form essay about The Substance and beauty/anti-ageing/injectables culture. If any editors would like me to do this, I have written on beauty history (in Hollywood specifically) extensively and I promise: I've got the goods!
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