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Filmmaker/author: 18½, Bernard and Huey, Between Us, Open House, Omaha (the movie), Cheerful Subversive’s Guide to Independent Filmmaking (Routledge), I Am Martin Eisenstadt (FSG), Stamp & Deliver (ScreenPlayPress). Professing @ ChapmanU & 70+ film schools

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But by the same token, maybe Wikipedia should make it easier for subjects of articles to update their own photos?

01.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Curious… did he get official press pass from NYFF? Looks like it from the angles. Cool! Every film fest should give credentials to Wikipedia (yo, Sundance??) In Wikipedia fight against AI, festivals and actors are natural allies.

01.11.2025 15:34 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

…but odd that they didn’t get a van with a ramp (for wheelchair access). Most commercial vans come with ramps anyway.

31.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice piece, Robert!

31.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump builds “gender-neutral” bathroom for himself!??! No urinal!!! What’s he hiding?? Glad to see he knows there will be a lady President next!

31.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Full disclosure- Jeanne Kirkpatrick- once a prominent Heritage Foundation voice - almost ran me over in a DuPont Circle alley. She just glared at this casual pedestrian who dared cross her path. No remorse. I wasn’t a fan before and definitely not after.

30.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pretty sure if you mention “globalist class” and “antisemitism” in the same sentence, that’s not a very deeply coded message.

30.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Wow! I wonder if anyone in film trades writing obituaries on Baker & Taylor - which used to be massive distributor of VHS & DVDs?

30.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice! But I wonder if searches for “The Last Republican” take folks to our Martin Eisenstadt book… www.amazon.com/Martin-Eisen...

30.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I don’t make "films" anymore…and neither should you. We make multiyear, community-based performance art projects. And that's OK!

My ‘stack today: We don’t just make “films” - we make decades-long community-based performance art projects. open.substack.com/pub/danmirvi...

27.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A black and white ground-level photograph of a B-52 bomber crew racing toward their aircraft during a drill.

A black and white ground-level photograph of a B-52 bomber crew racing toward their aircraft during a drill.

An overhead black and white photograph of a six-man crew running toward their B-52 bomber during a drill.

An overhead black and white photograph of a six-man crew running toward their B-52 bomber during a drill.

Today in 1969, President Nixon’s secret global nuclear alert escalated when the Strategic Air Command initiated GIANT LANCE, a nuclear show of force that involved flying 18 nuclear-armed B-52s from March AFB, California, and Fairchild AFB, Washington State, to Eielson AFB, Alaska, and from there …

26.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 49    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks for these links!!!

26.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would also appear that most of these men are named Ryan. Or at least they all look like A Ryan to me.

26.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The hair parts on the right 58% of the pictures - statistically anomalous to real life American men which is only 20%. Who had a right part? Hitler. Just sayin.’ (And no, that’s not the only statistical anomaly I can spot.)

26.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. 

That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech.

You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

25.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 3856    🔁 1352    💬 78    📌 70
Yes, the writer Mark Harris, known for his biography Mike Nichols: A Life, passed away in 2017. 
Mark Harris died in 2017 at the age of 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
He was a writer whose work included novels and biographies.
He wrote the biography Mike Nichols: A Life, which was published after his death.

Yes, the writer Mark Harris, known for his biography Mike Nichols: A Life, passed away in 2017. Mark Harris died in 2017 at the age of 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was a writer whose work included novels and biographies. He wrote the biography Mike Nichols: A Life, which was published after his death.

Well, THIS sucks. I have tickets for One Battle After Another for tomorrow and now I don't know if I should go!

25.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 1466    🔁 106    💬 130    📌 13

Deepest condolences to your friends and family. I hope they at least invite you to the shiva.

25.10.2025 02:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You had me at John Magaro!

23.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In response to Trump’s renovation of the White House, Aaron Sorkin reportedly upset that all future syndication of his hit show “The West Wing” will be renamed simply “The Wing.”

23.10.2025 05:38 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Updating my LEGO White House

23.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 47350    🔁 11119    💬 785    📌 438
22.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 4545    🔁 1355    💬 132    📌 45
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The Hathaway Effect - DanMirvish.com Originating in a blog post that Dan wrote for the Business section of The Huffington Post, The Hathaway Effect stipulates that when Anne Hathaway is in the news, the share price for Warren Buffett's c...

Ha! Exactly!! (And thats how we wind up with things like #TheHathawayEffect… www.danmirvish.com/The-Hathaway...

22.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Serious question: Why do companies (or press) care what non-company stock analysts think of what their earnings should be? I don’t sit around wondering what 3rd-party analysts think if I’m meeting my personal goals. Like asking critics to consider if I’m meeting my filmmaking “potential”.

22.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

FYI…. Troma cofounder Lloyd Kaufman attended Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding at the White House - he hitchhiked there with future Member of Congress Carolyn McCarthy. I’ve got the story (& photo!) in BTS documentary on 18½ DVD. mvdshop.com/products/18-...

21.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

21.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 3309    🔁 539    💬 101    📌 20

Return of the movie!! Nice!

21.10.2025 01:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure which headline is worse:
1) Hegseth drunk-bombs Vance
2) Vance bombs his own motorcade.
3) Trump tries to kill another VP

ktla.com/news/local-n...

20.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

See, there ARE kings! Nice work

19.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The movie RENTAL directed by Daniel Moya!

19.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nixon takes flight over America.

19.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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