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Joe Fordham

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Filmmaker (glitchsite.com), chef, writer of books, screenplays, and (2001-2021) a million-plus words for Cinefex magazine. https://linktr.ee/flashfilms

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Oh I guess I didn’t observe the ‘no Spielberg’ brief… but hey ho

24.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Nine film scores –– The River, Jane Eyre, Cinderella Liberty, Images, Heartbeats, Empire of the Sun, The Sugarland Express, Always, Lincoln – music by John Williams.

Nine film scores –– The River, Jane Eyre, Cinderella Liberty, Images, Heartbeats, Empire of the Sun, The Sugarland Express, Always, Lincoln – music by John Williams.

24.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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The Book Lady Revisiting Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451

Doing a bit of research, studying favorite authors and their techniques, I revisited a Ray Bradbury classic and discovered this stunning scene (seared into my brain from Truffaut's adaptation) was even more powerful on the page. #RayBradbury #Fahrenheit451

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24.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ewok in Cancun.

Ewok in Cancun.

24.02.2026 03:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jindo shepherd Lucy exhibits her extraordinary powers of persuasion.

Jindo shepherd Lucy exhibits her extraordinary powers of persuasion.

Lucy is happy to join the cause.

23.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Roy Arbogast special! I met Mr Arbogast in Martha’s Vineyard during Jawsfest 05. A wonderful fellow, part of the shark team. I got to tell him how much I loved my favorite: the screws undoing in the kitchen floor grating during the UFO invasion in the Guiler house!

22.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OMG, my namesake Uncle Joe owned one of these beauties. My parents to us to visit in Florida, 1980, my uncle took one look at Dad's rental and said, 'Trash. Take mine.' For three weeks we glided from Miami, to Cape Canaveral, Orlando, Tampa, Alligator Alley... like flying in a spaceship! Marvelous!

21.02.2026 07:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎶 “Daisy, Daisy, Bring me your answer do…” 🎶

20.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"GUILTY!"

19.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portraying the depths of my allegiance to the Ewok celebration.

Portraying the depths of my allegiance to the Ewok celebration.

Qui meg be oge zen non
Rak laptic nec sep not van
Goc jar az spazdeg zor ze zot!

Qui meg be oge zen non Rak laptic nec sep not van Goc jar az spazdeg zor ze zot!

19.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, Pablo. Good to see you, too. I've lost touch with Greg and Chris lately. You helped me out on more than one or two occasions, cloak and dagger with those chaps. I miss them!

19.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Actual photo of yours truly while writing about "Hugo":

19.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hold onto your potatoes! 🥔 🥔

18.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Come play with us, Danny.

17.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
APOS - The Forest Demon
YouTube video by DerwentFlametube APOS - The Forest Demon

Bravo! Here’s an equally inspired horror movie that I conceived and shot with friends one afternoon in 1983 for the price of stock and processing a reel of Super 8 with a rubber mask and a bag of chips. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn6F...

17.02.2026 02:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, every time! And I try not to be a grinch about it. But gimmeabreak!

15.02.2026 04:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Possessory decades? (That always bugs me, too.)

15.02.2026 04:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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1-172 The circle is complete. The first Cinefex issue I contributed to, as a freelancer, was number 77 (under waving Gizmo). I stayed with them all the way to my balsa-wood mothership (far right).

flic.kr/p/2ftF54h

11.02.2026 03:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Austin Wintory's The Gold Standard (Jerry Goldsmith tribute - video mix)
YouTube video by DerwentFlametube Austin Wintory's The Gold Standard (Jerry Goldsmith tribute - video mix)

Celebrating Jerry Goldsmith’s birthday with this fab tribute, from 2011, by Austin Wintory — with film clip accompaniments. #goldsmith

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zAR...

10.02.2026 16:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Young Englishman in Tucson, Arizona, 1989, with billboard for a John Williams concert that he would attend the next day. Photo by Don Archer.

Young Englishman in Tucson, Arizona, 1989, with billboard for a John Williams concert that he would attend the next day. Photo by Don Archer.

Happy John Williams Birthday, to all who celebrate the maestro. Offering a couple of his beautiful cues here, both used to adorn puppy videos — one for Bella (from “The River”), one for Lucy (“Lincoln”).

Pony Ride
vimeo.com/60704291

With Malice Toward None
youtu.be/ZjeR8DOgb38

#JohnTWilliams

08.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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03.02.2026 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Discovery Tribute to STS-133, space shuttle Discovery, launched from Kennedy Space Center, February 24, 2011. I was very moved by NASA imagery and amateur footage of this…

This might cheer you up, Paul. My tribute to the last flight of the Discovery, set to a lovely bit of John Wiiliams music: vimeo.com/20428905

02.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mine, Amok.

31.01.2026 04:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Night of the Hunter Soundtrack Recording Project Support a new recording of Walter Schumann's score to this classic thriller!

Beautiful score to a magnificent film, only ever a truncated LP version with narration; would love to have this re-recording. Donate here:

🎵Once upon a time there was a pretty fly,
He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly.
But one day she flew away, flew awaaaay!🎵

www.kickstarter.com/projects/129...

30.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter, Dr. Who or Alien 4 Auton? Or, is that a silly question?

30.01.2026 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Malignant Creativity: Robert Morgan On His Shocking Debut Feature 'Stopmotion,' Coming To Shudder On May 31 'Stopmotion' is a live-action horror film, but also contains three stop-motion shorts within its 93-minute runtime.

Here's a story about how it was made, speaking with director Robert Morgan a couple of years ago: www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

23.01.2026 02:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aha, of course!

22.01.2026 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Perhaps the disturbing scene where Naomi Watts is invaded by tiny people in Mulholland Drive?

22.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Lynch Frost Productions (2nd Logo) (1990-1992, 2017)
YouTube video by Mario Buitron Lynch Frost Productions (2nd Logo) (1990-1992, 2017)

Yeah, the Lynch/Frost logo was a sizzler!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdqP...

16.01.2026 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jaws-aversary Celebrating my 50th Jaws-aversary at the AMPAS Museum.

For my Jaws-aversary last weekend (anniversary of my first viewing of the film) I visited the AMPAS Museum, where they have a fantastic exhibition now playing, thru July 26:

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16.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0