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John Harden
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Film writer/director & visual artist living in the SF Bay Area. Please excuse/enjoy any profanity.
 Making movies: http://johnfilms.com
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What are four non-Criterion movies you'd add to the Criterion Collection?

Casino Royale (1968)
Frank Capra/Bell Labs 1950s educational films (Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent, etc.)
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
The Farmer’s Wife (1998 Frontline documentary)

#movies #film #documentary #YabtM #filmsky
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Slanted Saturn - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/k1h5xs
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Have del Toro and Walz actually seen FRANKENSTEIN
#film #vfx
January 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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A lot of people listen to the centrist strategists and “analysts” who wrongly argued Democrats shouldn’t talk about immigration because it would help Trump or some shit. You do have to wonder how that shaped Dem behavior in Congress, & how things could’ve been different w/ different info streams
The Democratic commentators, "strategists," and data bros who've been counseling appeasement of Trump's fascism need to take responsibility for how unbelievably fucking wrong they were.

For history tells us that appeasement signals weakness, encourages escalation, and accelerates freedom's end.
January 27, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Not only did I understand this one, but it's one my favorite things I saw last year
Fictionalized: a dying writer (John Gielgud) populates his final story with characters based on his own family in the dark but playfully surreal PROVIDENCE (1977, D. Alain Resnais). We discuss.
🎥 #film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQM...
Providence #YabtM Episode 255
YouTube video by YabtM
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Gee whiz I post about #film every damn day and none of it EVER shows up in the film feed. I use the little projector 🎥 and everything, what up #filmsky? Is it because I don't use Letterboxd ? @francesmeh.reviews
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
pretty sure I understood it
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I know what you did LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961)... do you? In this episode, we puzzle over Alain Resnais' enigmatic rumination on memory, imagination and desire.
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPy...
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) #YabtM Episode 255
YouTube video by YabtM
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda.

1. Vote no on DHS funding bill.

2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE.

3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents.

4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Democrat politician voicing support for a #GeneralStrike , even tentatively, sounds like a breakthrough to me
Raskin: "I think the people have Minnesota have shown us with their mass demonstration and general strike the direction that we may need to go in nationally in order to send the message that American society does not accept this authoritarian derailment of the US Constitution."
January 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Raskin: "I think the people have Minnesota have shown us with their mass demonstration and general strike the direction that we may need to go in nationally in order to send the message that American society does not accept this authoritarian derailment of the US Constitution."
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Quality posts like this are why you follow MZS
Watching my beloved Godzilla vs Megalon (1973) with my beloved @mzspress.bsky.social. The score is by Riichirō Manabe—basically early fusion after a Qualude. It sounds like the kind of music that was always on the stereo at my dad's apartment right after he got divorced and bought a waterbed.
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Tiananmen Square, Minnesota-style. So cathartic to watch.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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1/25/77: Alain Resnais' Providence
w/outstanding Gielgud, Borgade, Burstyn
Norman Mailer: Greatest film ever made on the creative process
More:
@johncoulthart.com: www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...
JR: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2025/11/on-p...
@filmlinc.bsky.social: www.filmlinc.org/daily/nyff-5...
January 25, 2026 at 7:47 PM
“If you feel lost, it’s not because you’re failing, it’s because you’re hacking into the woods on your own.”
#film
https://www.cinemaverses.com/p/why-i-dont-do-new-years-resolutions?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Why I Don’t Do New Year’s Resolutions (And What I Do Instead)
A filmmaker's alternative to New Year's Resolutions for 2026. Learn how to move past the 'Assessor' and take committed action on your creative projects.
www.cinemaverses.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Fictionalized: a dying writer (John Gielgud) populates his final story with characters based on his own family in the dark but playfully surreal PROVIDENCE (1977, D. Alain Resnais). We discuss.
🎥 #film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQM...
Providence #YabtM Episode 255
YouTube video by YabtM
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
January 23, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Updated my LinkedIn and added portfolios for brand identity, sales collateral & editorial page design. Currently looking for #gigs - please feel free to share, thx frens 🖤
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnharden/
January 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
new way to make things stupider discovered

🎥 #CineMastodon #filmsky
January 23, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I know what you did LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961)... do you? In this episode, we puzzle over Alain Resnais' enigmatic rumination on memory, imagination and desire.
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPy...
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) #YabtM Episode 255
YouTube video by YabtM
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:09 PM