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John Harden
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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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What are four non-Criterion movies you'd add to the Criterion Collection?

Casino Royale (1968)
Frank Capra/Bell Labs 1950s educational films (Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent, etc.)
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
The Farmer’s Wife (1998 Frontline documentary)

#movies #film #documentary #YabtM #filmsky
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Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 🧛‍♂️ #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuS...
Sinners #YabtM Episode 245
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Following his 2013 debut feature FRUITVALE STATION, Oakland CA director Ryan Coogler revitalized the ROCKY franchise with the stirring CREED (2015). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ript...
Creed #YabtM Episode 245
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The music the Italian rock band Goblin wrote for George Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD
Yes! It’s one of the reasons I love that movie.
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Momentum is building! In Virginia, Spanberger maintains a solid lead; in New Jersey, Sherrill is getting a boost from Governor Shapiro; and in NYC, Mamdani continues to outperform Cuomo. Add that to national polling showing Trump flailing, and there was plenty to celebrate last week.
Our Wins Of The Week
The White House wrecking crew may need to tear down some ketchup-stained walls after some new polling that came out this week.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Before it slips too far into the past: here are some of the bands we saw at San Rafael's #PorchFest last month. Great event. Live music on a gorgeous fall day. Food trucks. And lots of #dogs !
#liveMusic
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The unboxing video I want
DS9 came next, Janeway is in Voyager
Women spearheaded the letter writing campaign that saved the original series from cancellation. Women started the first conventions.
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
Before it slips too far into the past: here are some of the bands we saw at San Rafael's #PorchFest last month. Great event. Live music on a gorgeous fall day. Food trucks. And lots of #dogs !
#liveMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IanZQGHgExI
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I say it here and it comes out there
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I'm unreasonably upset at this flattening of Garak into Fashion Lizard,he was the Enigmatic Fashion Lizard and this cannot be erased
Maybe not my favorite but there’s a scene in BARFLY where Mickey Rourke answers a knock at the door of his apartment and he’s absolutely blasting John Adams’ Shaker Loops on his stereo
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What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuSchNzTCU
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 🧛‍♂️ #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuS...
Sinners #YabtM Episode 245
YouTube video by YabtM
www.youtube.com
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Cuomo and Adams can never take this away from us
This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)