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Derek Operle
@doperle.bsky.social
Reporter. Film head. NBA + UK 🏀 fan.

News Director at @wkmsfm.bsky.social
Host of The Liquid Moment
Programmer, the Paducah Film Society
Formerly: The Paducah Sun
it is just chilling on brown’s vimeo page, along with most of his other docs (including the delightful roswell)
vimeo.com/288998129?fl...
Life On The Mississippi [click CC for subtitles]
An essay film about a river and the limits of knowing it. Using Mark Twain’s "Life On The Mississippi" as a road map, Brown travels along the Mississippi…
vimeo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🤠 hello long lost pal
October 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Earlier on, you can also tune into @wkmsfm.bsky.social for Sounds Good to hear Todd Hatton’s audio documentary on the educator, who was born and buried in Paducah, called “I Am John Scopes.” It’s also streamable here:
www.wkms.org/society/2015...
[Audio] WKMS Documentary "I Am John Scopes"
What makes a person voluntarily step into the middle of one of the most controversial and contentious issues of modern times? And what makes them…
www.wkms.org
July 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In the evening, I’ll be hosting the Paducah Film Society screening of “Inherit the Wind,” a 1960 film that fictionalizes the events of the trial, at Maiden Alley Cinema. That starts at 7 and retired Kentucky Supreme Court Judge Bill Cunningham will speak about the case’s history beforehand.
July 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Fave film discoveries/first watches for May 2025:
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Brewster’s Millions (1985)
Sherman’s March (1985)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Ghost In The Shell (1995)
June 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
recency bias has me wanting to plug in fail safe, the incredible shrinking man, and in cold blood big time.
May 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM