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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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And Newsom can't do it because he wants the fundamentals of the current system essentially in place when he takes control of them and he's betting (I think mistakenly) that the average voter wants that too. That he can slide right back into the Biden era. Which didn't work and is dead.

27.01.2026 04:44 — 👍 160    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
This view of Saturn was snapped by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) during its "Storm Watch" observations.

This composite is made of images that were taken on February 10, 2014 and received on Earth February 11, 2014. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 1,229,868 miles (1,979,280 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the CB2, MT3, MT2, BL1, CL1 and CL2 filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans

This view of Saturn was snapped by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) during its "Storm Watch" observations. This composite is made of images that were taken on February 10, 2014 and received on Earth February 11, 2014. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 1,229,868 miles (1,979,280 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the CB2, MT3, MT2, BL1, CL1 and CL2 filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans

Slanted Saturn - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/k1h5xs

15.11.2025 23:01 — 👍 124    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 4
Search results with excerpts from two articles: The Express Tribune https://tribune.com.pk› story > 2562394> gu.. Guillermo del Toro explains why he avoided CGI in 'Frankenstein'... Aug 21, 2025 • Guillermo del Toro explains why he avoided CGI in 'Frankenstein' and cast Jacob Elordi as the monster Del Toro describes his decades-in-th... The Playlist https://theplaylist.net ›cgi-is-for-losers-fran… "CGI Is For Losers": 'Frankenstein' Team Talk Practical Effects, Al ... Aug 30, 2025 • Christoph Waltz was more blunt about his views. "CGI is for losers," he explained, celebrating del Toro's preference for practical effects. However,...

Search results with excerpts from two articles: The Express Tribune https://tribune.com.pk› story > 2562394> gu.. Guillermo del Toro explains why he avoided CGI in 'Frankenstein'... Aug 21, 2025 • Guillermo del Toro explains why he avoided CGI in 'Frankenstein' and cast Jacob Elordi as the monster Del Toro describes his decades-in-th... The Playlist https://theplaylist.net ›cgi-is-for-losers-fran… "CGI Is For Losers": 'Frankenstein' Team Talk Practical Effects, Al ... Aug 30, 2025 • Christoph Waltz was more blunt about his views. "CGI is for losers," he explained, celebrating del Toro's preference for practical effects. However,...

Have del Toro and Walz actually seen FRANKENSTEIN
#film #vfx

27.01.2026 02:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

27.01.2026 00:49 — 👍 406    🔁 102    💬 13    📌 3

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

27.01.2026 01:06 — 👍 4164    🔁 656    💬 5    📌 41

"...and he is expected to retire soon"
angry goose:
...and face trial?
AND FACE TRIAL MOTHERFUCKER?!

27.01.2026 01:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

making this triangulating vacuum the nominee would be a disaster

27.01.2026 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

making this triangulating vacuum the nominee would be a disaster

27.01.2026 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

27.01.2026 01:09 — 👍 6201    🔁 960    💬 159    📌 79

"...where he is expected to retire soon"
angry goose:
...and face trial?
AND FACE TRIAL MOTHERFUCKER?

27.01.2026 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not only did I understand this one, but it's one my favorite things I saw last year

27.01.2026 00:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hah hah, breakthrough. I bet it was the "Letterboxd" that did it

26.01.2026 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

26.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

pretty sure I understood it
🎥

26.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/rokh...

26.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

25.01.2026 14:36 — 👍 4350    🔁 1298    💬 245    📌 139
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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?"

25.01.2026 20:24 — 👍 50115    🔁 14668    💬 890    📌 610

I’m with you. Just disgusted with the cowardly triangulating and fundraising off this hell by leaders like Schiff and Jeffries. But heartened to see how the people in Minneapolis are stepping up. They, we, are the ones who will make change. We have to push the Dems to do the right thing.

26.01.2026 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Unfortunately I don’t have any faith in the Democrats to follow through on any of this

25.01.2026 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stewart is a good actor and so sharp and great in interviews I’m really curious to see what she’s come up with

25.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Democrat politician voicing support for a #GeneralStrike , even tentatively, sounds like a breakthrough to me

25.01.2026 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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."

25.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 10149    🔁 2753    💬 365    📌 187

Wait, that movie’s out? 😮

25.01.2026 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quality posts like this are why you follow MZS

25.01.2026 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tiananmen Square, Minnesota-style. So cathartic to watch.

25.01.2026 19:52 — 👍 90    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
From the original post’s thread: someone asks what a conservation officer is (the ones in the lime green) and ask if they are “fish and wildlife“and another poster comments “yeah Minnesota fish and wildlife is run by a nasty piece of shit“

From the original post’s thread: someone asks what a conservation officer is (the ones in the lime green) and ask if they are “fish and wildlife“and another poster comments “yeah Minnesota fish and wildlife is run by a nasty piece of shit“

From the o.p. thread

25.01.2026 20:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

25.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

“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

24.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Providence #YabtM Episode 255
YouTube video by YabtM Providence #YabtM Episode 255

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...

24.01.2026 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Ska Nuggets, delicious
#NowPlaying #music https://www.mixcloud.com/SkaNuggets/ska-nuggets-vol-1/

23.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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