That John from Peru or Texas
@john-mcfarland-sm.bsky.social
Foreign service brat turned mental health professional and sociologist. Cinemaphile. Anti-ignoratti. Writes and photographs too much.
The art of photogrpahy within cinema. The nominees for the 2025 American Society of Cinematography Award and their Spotlight Award for work in lesser known films.
Frankenstein, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme
The Plague, Arum, Orphan (Árva).
Frankenstein, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme
The Plague, Arum, Orphan (Árva).
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The art of photogrpahy within cinema. The nominees for the 2025 American Society of Cinematography Award and their Spotlight Award for work in lesser known films.
Frankenstein, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme
The Plague, Arum, Orphan (Árva).
Frankenstein, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme
The Plague, Arum, Orphan (Árva).
Thank you and farewell, #CorporationforPublicBroadcasting .
January 6, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Thank you and farewell, #CorporationforPublicBroadcasting .
At 916,445 km² (353,842mi²) #Venezuela is much larger than Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, South Viet Nam, South Korea, Japan, West Germany, Cuba, and the Philippines. With the exception of Japan in 1945, at 29 people plus 7.9 m refugees, it is also more populous than those at #USoccupation.
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 AM
At 916,445 km² (353,842mi²) #Venezuela is much larger than Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, South Viet Nam, South Korea, Japan, West Germany, Cuba, and the Philippines. With the exception of Japan in 1945, at 29 people plus 7.9 m refugees, it is also more populous than those at #USoccupation.
Theory: #OneBattleAfterAnother is #PaulThomasAnderson trying to make the ultimate #CoenBrothers movie.
January 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Theory: #OneBattleAfterAnother is #PaulThomasAnderson trying to make the ultimate #CoenBrothers movie.
#Records turning 50 years old.this year. It includes classics from #Rush #Aeromsith #ACDC #Kiss , Boston, Chicago, #BobMarley #DavidBowie and The Eagles' #HotelCalifornia . Also the debuts of #TheRamones , #Blondie #TomPettyandtheHeaetbreakers and #DianaRoss .
January 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
#Records turning 50 years old.this year. It includes classics from #Rush #Aeromsith #ACDC #Kiss , Boston, Chicago, #BobMarley #DavidBowie and The Eagles' #HotelCalifornia . Also the debuts of #TheRamones , #Blondie #TomPettyandtheHeaetbreakers and #DianaRoss .
Happy New Year 2026! A reminder that everything from 1976 is now 50.years old, everything from 1986 (your hair metal album collection) is 40.years old, 1996 stuff is 30.years old (primitive internet arguing over "ID4"), and your iPod-ruled 2006 culture is 20 years old.
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Happy New Year 2026! A reminder that everything from 1976 is now 50.years old, everything from 1986 (your hair metal album collection) is 40.years old, 1996 stuff is 30.years old (primitive internet arguing over "ID4"), and your iPod-ruled 2006 culture is 20 years old.
See you out somewhere in the cosmos. #GilGerard. He was cool as #BuckRogers in all 3 languages in which I watched his show growing up.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
See you out somewhere in the cosmos. #GilGerard. He was cool as #BuckRogers in all 3 languages in which I watched his show growing up.
Last Christmas, I survived #Whamageddon . This year, can't save me some tears: with a week to go, I got whammed at a coffeeshop.
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Last Christmas, I survived #Whamageddon . This year, can't save me some tears: with a week to go, I got whammed at a coffeeshop.
Few filmmakers have contriubuted as much to US culture (consider it pop or otherwise) than the recently departed #RobReiner. Movie quotes, expressions ("bucket list"), subgenres, and films preserved in the National Library of Congress. I'll have what he was having.
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Few filmmakers have contriubuted as much to US culture (consider it pop or otherwise) than the recently departed #RobReiner. Movie quotes, expressions ("bucket list"), subgenres, and films preserved in the National Library of Congress. I'll have what he was having.
#KnivesOut previously satirized home care and pseudo-billionaire tech bros. In "Wake Up Dead Man' #RianJohnson skewers Catholicism that is subverted to preach the opposite and weaponized for greed and politics, while also showing the human side of faith support. More #BenoitBlanc please.
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#KnivesOut previously satirized home care and pseudo-billionaire tech bros. In "Wake Up Dead Man' #RianJohnson skewers Catholicism that is subverted to preach the opposite and weaponized for greed and politics, while also showing the human side of faith support. More #BenoitBlanc please.
#ImmersiveFilms nominated to the #ProducersGuildofAmerica 2025 Innovation award
#VR:
"Asteroid", Google XR.
"D Day the Camera Soldier": Apple Vision Pro.
"Territory", VR, Kinetic Light
Amphiteater:
"Big Wave, No Room for Error": Cosm Los Angeles.
"Wizard of Oz at the Sphere": The Sphere.
#VR:
"Asteroid", Google XR.
"D Day the Camera Soldier": Apple Vision Pro.
"Territory", VR, Kinetic Light
Amphiteater:
"Big Wave, No Room for Error": Cosm Los Angeles.
"Wizard of Oz at the Sphere": The Sphere.
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#ImmersiveFilms nominated to the #ProducersGuildofAmerica 2025 Innovation award
#VR:
"Asteroid", Google XR.
"D Day the Camera Soldier": Apple Vision Pro.
"Territory", VR, Kinetic Light
Amphiteater:
"Big Wave, No Room for Error": Cosm Los Angeles.
"Wizard of Oz at the Sphere": The Sphere.
#VR:
"Asteroid", Google XR.
"D Day the Camera Soldier": Apple Vision Pro.
"Territory", VR, Kinetic Light
Amphiteater:
"Big Wave, No Room for Error": Cosm Los Angeles.
"Wizard of Oz at the Sphere": The Sphere.
For #photography fans, an interesting colection of photos of 2025.
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-p...
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-p...
2025 National & Regional Awards Winners & Shortlist | World Photography Organisation
www.worldphoto.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For #photography fans, an interesting colection of photos of 2025.
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-p...
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-p...
#NoahBaumach needs to hug his dad or something. #JayKelly again covers his recurrent theme of fathers who are emotionally absent or dysfunctional due to their inflated ego or career. This time he covers 3 fatherhoods. It works, though.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#NoahBaumach needs to hug his dad or something. #JayKelly again covers his recurrent theme of fathers who are emotionally absent or dysfunctional due to their inflated ego or career. This time he covers 3 fatherhoods. It works, though.
A remedy for the #lonelinessepidemic, if it indeed exists: ignore #haitbate about politics and pop culture. You may find that you can connect on music, movies, sports, and food tastes, as well as daily experiences, with those who are on 'the other side' of the hate-triggering issues and non-issues.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A remedy for the #lonelinessepidemic, if it indeed exists: ignore #haitbate about politics and pop culture. You may find that you can connect on music, movies, sports, and food tastes, as well as daily experiences, with those who are on 'the other side' of the hate-triggering issues and non-issues.
#GoldenGlobes 2025 nominations slightly surprise with a high amount of non-USA films, and 3 latino actors: #WagnerMoura (for brazilian "The Secret Agent"), #OscarIsaac ("Frankenstein"), and #BenicioDelToro (supporting actor, "One Battle After Another).
#movies
#movies
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#GoldenGlobes 2025 nominations slightly surprise with a high amount of non-USA films, and 3 latino actors: #WagnerMoura (for brazilian "The Secret Agent"), #OscarIsaac ("Frankenstein"), and #BenicioDelToro (supporting actor, "One Battle After Another).
#movies
#movies
#MovieAwards season has started. #TheNationalBoardofReview and #NewYorkFilmCriticsCircle both rewarded "One Battle After Another", Benicio Del Toro and Rose Byrne. Some love for horror movies. Split on DiCaprio and Wagner Moura.
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#MovieAwards season has started. #TheNationalBoardofReview and #NewYorkFilmCriticsCircle both rewarded "One Battle After Another", Benicio Del Toro and Rose Byrne. Some love for horror movies. Split on DiCaprio and Wagner Moura.
Uses of my neighbor's small bird feeder. 1. Feed deer. 2. Feed wild turkey strutting around the burbs with 'nyah nyah you didn't get me' after Thanksgiving.
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Uses of my neighbor's small bird feeder. 1. Feed deer. 2. Feed wild turkey strutting around the burbs with 'nyah nyah you didn't get me' after Thanksgiving.
Not to be a Netflix ad, but philosophical "Train Dreams" has this year's best #cinematography (lensed by Adolpho Veloso). A good engaging, medidative movie overall.
#TrainDreams
#TrainDreams
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Not to be a Netflix ad, but philosophical "Train Dreams" has this year's best #cinematography (lensed by Adolpho Veloso). A good engaging, medidative movie overall.
#TrainDreams
#TrainDreams
I would have never predicted that Udo Kier and Jimmy Cliff would leave together.
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I would have never predicted that Udo Kier and Jimmy Cliff would leave together.
#EuropeanFilmAward noms:
Sentimental Value, It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, Sirât, The Voice of Hind Rajab; Arco, Dog of God, Little Amelie, Olivia & the Invisible Earthquake, Tales From the Magic Garden; Afternoons of Solitude, Song of Slow Burning Earth, Riefenstahl, With Hazan in Gaza.
Sentimental Value, It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, Sirât, The Voice of Hind Rajab; Arco, Dog of God, Little Amelie, Olivia & the Invisible Earthquake, Tales From the Magic Garden; Afternoons of Solitude, Song of Slow Burning Earth, Riefenstahl, With Hazan in Gaza.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#EuropeanFilmAward noms:
Sentimental Value, It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, Sirât, The Voice of Hind Rajab; Arco, Dog of God, Little Amelie, Olivia & the Invisible Earthquake, Tales From the Magic Garden; Afternoons of Solitude, Song of Slow Burning Earth, Riefenstahl, With Hazan in Gaza.
Sentimental Value, It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, Sirât, The Voice of Hind Rajab; Arco, Dog of God, Little Amelie, Olivia & the Invisible Earthquake, Tales From the Magic Garden; Afternoons of Solitude, Song of Slow Burning Earth, Riefenstahl, With Hazan in Gaza.
Those who yearn for a return of the culture of 500 years ago, a reminder that, lack of indoor plumbing aside, there was a belief in dangerous Sea Cows and trees that bred ducks.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Those who yearn for a return of the culture of 500 years ago, a reminder that, lack of indoor plumbing aside, there was a belief in dangerous Sea Cows and trees that bred ducks.
#NovelleVague fillm: 1) the filiming of "Breathless" ("Un Boute de Souffle") mirrors director #RichardLinklater 's own indie movie shoots. 2) #JeanLucGodard is depicted like #EdWood in Tim Burton's bio, and #TommyWiseau in "The Disaster Artist". Stylish fun.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#NovelleVague fillm: 1) the filiming of "Breathless" ("Un Boute de Souffle") mirrors director #RichardLinklater 's own indie movie shoots. 2) #JeanLucGodard is depicted like #EdWood in Tim Burton's bio, and #TommyWiseau in "The Disaster Artist". Stylish fun.