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karen han

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🍒 screenwriter and culture writer 🍊 author of BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA 🍋 reps: lit entertainment/uta 🍐 [email protected] 🫐 https://www.karenhan.org

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · Jan 22

✨ now seems as good a time as any to remind folks that my book, BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA, covers all of his films, includes interviews with folks like tilda swinton and jung jaeil, and is available wherever you get your books in the lead-up to MICKEY 17! ✨ www.abramsbooks.com/product/bong...

the cover of the book BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA, featuring a photo of the director at work

a picture of karen with her book open on a photo of song kang-ho, with a my melody filter

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 3d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 3d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 10d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 8d

i am genuinely devastated!!!

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 8d

ahhh!!!!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Toby Jones @tobytobyjones.bsky.social · 10d

I made a movie with my friends and now you can pre-order it on blu-ray courtesy of Cartuna and @vinsyn.bsky.social !

Featuring new artwork by @everydaylouie.bsky.social and @michaelfurler.bsky.social, an essay by @karenhan.bsky.social, and a lot of extras

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 18d

delighted to report that NO OTHER CHOICE is an absolute heater

karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 18d

if i get raptured during the middle of NO OTHER CHOICE i’m going to be so mad

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 18d

if i get raptured during the middle of NO OTHER CHOICE i’m going to be so mad

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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 23d

JOINT STATEMENT: Hollywood Labor on Pulling of Jimmy Kimmel Live w/ @sagaftra.org @directorsguild.bsky.social @afm-union.bsky.social

The indefinite removal of Jimmy Kimmel Live under government pressure is not an isolated incident. It is part of a disturbing trend of increasing interference in creative expression. This kind of political pressure on broadcasters and artists chills free speech and threatens the livelihoods of thousands of working Americans.

When a private citizen, business, or television network bows to government intimidation, it strikes at the heart of our First Amendment rights. Creative artists must be free to do their work without fear that their careers or their family’s livelihoods will be disrupted simply for their opinions.

These cases pull the rug out from under the hardworking American workers behind the scenes who make these productions possible. At a time when America’s film and television industry is still struggling due to globalization and industry contraction, further unnecessary job losses only make a bad situation worse.

Finally, media companies have a responsibility to defend their workers and the integrity of the stories they tell. All broadcasters must stand firm in defense of free expression and the First Amendment, not capitulate to a policy of political appeasement.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23d

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 25d

Welp

That’s the “Feds are monitoring all Discord activity” canary dead in a cage.

On par with the DoD IP address ranges accessing image URLs the day of Skype‘s switchover to MS infrastructure

signal.org/download/

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 25d

is this a reaction to [ gestures ]? not no

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 26d

patiently waiting for the spider-man x mtg secret lair that is just cards with sexy art of alfred molina, willem dafoe, dylan baker, jk simmons, and thomas haden church

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 25d

Four Favorites with #LindaLindaLinda director Nobuhiro Yamashita 🤘

The new 4K restoration of Linda Linda Linda is in New York and LA theaters now courtesy of GKIDS Films, with more locations to follow.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25d

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25d

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 26d

patiently waiting for the spider-man x mtg secret lair that is just cards with sexy art of alfred molina, willem dafoe, dylan baker, jk simmons, and thomas haden church

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 26d

martin short trying to act like a real boy in the movie clifford

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 26d

👀

karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 26d

is this the year i finally try dming a game for the first time

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 29d

MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 29d

Pokemon Pokopia out 2026 (Gamefreak/Koei Tecmo)

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · Sep 12

who did this

a google search for burn gorman turning up a picture of him with his forehead tripled

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · Sep 12

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · Sep 11

I feel it is my responsibility as your mainstream comic book friend to further explain that what dc is doing to Gretchen is unprecedented

They haven’t only cancelled the series, they are refunding the comics that are already created and recalling the issue that is already sold.

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Sep 11

Hello everyone. You may know Gretchen Felker-Martin has once again been suspended from bc they do that whenever some chud complains. Her brand-new ongoing DC series was also cancelled for the same reason. It’s stupid fascist bullshit as usual. Gretchen’s work rules. Consider supporting her here:

Creating Filth

www.patreon.com

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · Sep 11

por que no los dos though i AM laughing imagining trying to get an onix into the winter garden theatre

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