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Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social · 13d

Immerse yourself in the sounds of Nollywood 🎶 at 𝐈𝐅𝐈 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬: 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 – 𝐍𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 with Obumneke Anyanwu on Oct 2nd at 18.30.

And stay for our screening of HALF OF A YELLOW SUN at 20.20.

Book tickets now 🎟️ 👉 https://bit.ly/4ntrMUi

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Katey Rich @kateyrich.bsky.social · 23d

Hard to imagine a better final starring role than this one

THE OLD MAN & THE GUN | Official Trailer [HD] | FOX Searchlight

YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · 25d

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · 25d

Feel very privileged to have been able to write this review for @filmindublin.bsky.social !

Film In Dublin @filmindublin.bsky.social · 26d

The Voice of Hind Rajab is a work of empathetic defiance. Having seen the film at Venice Film Festival, @hellojackwarren.bsky.social reviews Kaouther Ben Hania's film:
filmindublin.ie/2025/09/12/the-voice-of-hind-rajab/

Still from the film The Voice of Hind Rajab. A group of people stand around a man sitting speaking into a phone.

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · May 26

Hi bluesky!!! I'm raising funds so that I can afford this cool screenwriting workshop. i'll be working on my script Violent Delights which is about a trans guy and a cannibal girl who fall in love while all sorts of people try to kill them. if you have any $ to spare I would so appreciate it!

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Mar 7

SO BUMMED to be missing Hollywood 90028

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Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

Now we have a best actress who was also Ghostface

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Mar 3

Substance came true

Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Mar 3

Lol

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molly @mollymoss.bsky.social · Mar 2

Soderbergh is the thinking girl's choice here

Blank Check with Griffin & David @blankcheck.bsky.social · Mar 2

Today in March Madness, let us go back in time to the 73rd Academy Awards. Steven Soderbergh wins Best Director for Traffic over Ridley Scott for Gladiator. 24 years later on Oscar Sunday - a rematch!

It's SODERBERGH PT I (4) vs SCOTT PT I (5).

Vote: www.blankcheckpod.com/march-madness

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Mar 3

Trent is meechee

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · Feb 23

A decade ago, I went on book tour with Sybil Lamb. We did 32 cities across the US/Canada, read with dozens of writers and met hundreds of people.

So many of them are now dead. All of them are transsexuals. The oldest didn't make it to 50. I say this because I want you to live and I'm going to too.

Every Living Transsexual Is A Republican Policy Failure

Living in spite

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · Feb 15

Queuing for THE PEOPLE'S JOKER and this is the most transsexuals I've seen anywhere outside a larp

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 10

monster girls stick together!!!!!!!

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 10

ALWAYS an honor to play alongside The Estrogen Gospel by @realrobynadams.bsky.social - come check us out at @finalgirlsberlin.bsky.social online and in the beautiful city of Berlin!!! I will be there!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robyn "Re-Tranimator" Adams @realrobynadams.bsky.social · Feb 10

Very much like this trend of @hellojackwarren.bsky.social and I interacting in film form when our movies end up getting programmed on the same shorts block. It's happened three times now and I'm always so happy about it

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · Feb 9

Last chance ~ only a few hours left!

Louise Weard @weard.moe · Jan 29

Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best Of Both Worlds

help us finish this trans cinema epic ~

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...

Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best Of Both Worlds

A trans woman in trouble. The second half of Louise Weard’s castration epic.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

finally: porn aesthetics and words to live by

Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

on stanley the manly

Hell yeah. Dr. Strangelove is a fucking crazy movie. That was probably the first Stanley Kubrick movie I ever saw. And now when I watch it as an adult, it’s such a deeply horny movie. It’s crazy how horny that movie is! Especially for something made in the ‘60s. It’s just about sex. It’s barely about politics. It’s about men and their boners! God. Good on ya, Stanley.

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

on seeing yourself in movies and getting into porn! feat. @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social @weard.moe and @schlockvalue.bsky.social

I definitely see myself in my contemporaries, like Alice Maio Mackay and Louise Weard. I relate to the stuff they’re talking about. I was really into queer film before making The People’s Joker, especially John Waters and Bruce LaBruce, but I also hadn’t seen a lot of stuff, especially in porn.

I’m really getting into porn lately, as a genre. I’ve really fallen in love with Jean Rollin. He’s got this whole series of vampire movies; I don’t know if I see myself in them, but I really relate to him as a smut peddler. Because I think he makes art that is so beautiful. He made this movie called Requiem for a Vampire that has no dialogue for the first 40 minutes. It’s just these lesbian clowns getting away from a heist, and they somehow end up in a vampire castle. And then in the middle of the movie there’s a 15-minute S&M sequence. It’s crazy! I feel so lucky that there’s so much art I get to discover. Especially queer art.

I should also give a shoutout to Liz Purchell’s movie, Ask Any Buddy, which is a remix of gay porn. I remember going to see it, which was my first experience watching porn in a theater. I can’t remember if there’s any explicit trans characters in it, but it feels like a trans movie to me. It’s this beautiful bridge that a lot of us trans women and trans femmes cross where we first come out. Everyone’s thinks you’re a gay man. And then you start living in that world and then you’re like: “Oh no, I’m something else entirely.” Everyone should check out Ask Any Buddy, if they get the chance. It’s one of my favorite queer movies ever made.

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

on the return + the people's joker

As far as it relates to The People’s Joker… I wanted to talk about the trans experience as an inter-dimensional experience; It’s not just about matching your soul to your body, it’s about transcending those things completely. The entire third act of The People’s Joker is my character transcending time and space and going through this gender-hell-stargate and that was trying to circle a similar thing.

Making The People’s Joker, it broke down that barrier of reality, where things I was writing for the movie would then show up in my life. The entire third act of the movie as it relates to Joker telling her story and facing off against this corporate media landscape is what it felt like releasing the movie and having Warner Brothers come after it. And that was weird because it was like: “What the fuck? I wrote this two years ago and now I’m going through it?” But I think that’s what happens when you write something really personal, and you approach it from this sort of chaos magic angle of making stuff.

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

on twin peaks: the return

As this piece of digital cinema, it broke my brain. It really showed me the ability of art to subvert expectations. And how the whole subversion of expectations is a lie; It’s really just following your intuition as an artist and telling a truthful story. As a spiritual source of inspiration it changed my life. Watching that movie—I think of it as an eighteen-hour movie—I was like: “It is time for me to start transitioning. It is time for me to start making art that only I can make”. It was this wake-up call to stop waiting for the green light from other people, that only I was going to be able to create that for myself. And for every other artist of value that’s the only way you get to the other side.

And it completely ruined TV for me. I can’t watch TV anymore. I remember when those last two episodes aired, just sitting there and being like: “I’m different! My brain is different now! He changed my brain with art!”

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

on david lynch

Just one of the all-time greatest humans that ever lived. I’ve been thinking all week since watching it with how scary things are right now, that line in The Elephant Man where John Merrick’s like: “I’m happy every hour of the day because I know I have love in my life.” That is just profoundly something we all need to hold onto right now. Everybody needs to make that the priority, especially in times like these when everything is so scary.

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Jack Warren @hellojackwarren.bsky.social · Feb 8

sooooo much fun talking to @veradrew22.bsky.social about the transcendent intersection of The People's Joker, Twin Peaks: The Return, and lesbian vampires

Film In Dublin @filmindublin.bsky.social · Feb 7

David Lynch, porn and what's next for The People's Joker - @hellojackwarren.bsky.social interviews @veradrew22.bsky.social ahead of a Valentine's preview for the people at @lighthousecinema.bsky.social 🃏

filmindublin.ie/2025/02/07/a...

On the left is the poster for film The People's Joker, a stylised Joker playing card. On the right is director Vera Drew posing arm outstretched

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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · Jan 28

thoughts on fasсism as a spiritual sickness

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