Dan Mirvish
@danmirvish.bsky.social
Filmmaker/author: 18½, Bernard and Huey, Between Us, Open House, Omaha (the movie), Cheerful Subversive’s Guide to Independent Filmmaking (Routledge), I Am Martin Eisenstadt (FSG), Stamp & Deliver (ScreenPlayPress). Professing @ ChapmanU & 70+ film schools
Great, sad, funny thread by @drewmcweeny.com that sadly hints at the AI-ing of subtitles, and lack of human editing. But proves what I’ve written in my book: Directors should check their subtitles - for creative reasons, but also for errors. Whether Netflix allowed RJ that opportunity I dunno?
Okay... whoever did the subtitles for WAKE UP DEAD MAN needs a slap on the wrist. You made me feel temporarily insane tonight. I saw the film at the premiere a few weeks ago, and there's an ISHTAR reference that made me cackle. (1/?)
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Great, sad, funny thread by @drewmcweeny.com that sadly hints at the AI-ing of subtitles, and lack of human editing. But proves what I’ve written in my book: Directors should check their subtitles - for creative reasons, but also for errors. Whether Netflix allowed RJ that opportunity I dunno?
You had me at “contumacious”… (Perhaps a lawyer or linguist can explain how that’s different from “contemptuous”??)
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
You had me at “contumacious”… (Perhaps a lawyer or linguist can explain how that’s different from “contemptuous”??)
You had me at “atomic fracking”… yikes! what could possibly go wrong???
OTD in 1967, the Atomic Energy Commission, Dept. of the Interior and the El Paso Gas Company conducted Project GASBUGGY, a Project Plowshare nuclear test to stimulate natural gas production ~55 miles E of Farmington and ~12 miles SW of Dulce, New Mexico, adjacent to the Jicarilla Apache Reservation.
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You had me at “atomic fracking”… yikes! what could possibly go wrong???
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1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
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New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Buried lede: Paramount bid also includes a lot of $ from Gulf states, too. So much for MAMA (“Make American Movies Again”)
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Buried lede: Paramount bid also includes a lot of $ from Gulf states, too. So much for MAMA (“Make American Movies Again”)
What’s interesting to me is it’s a window into the Penske pay-to-play world of awards season. While no big secret in Hollywood I doubt most consumers know that every actors-on-actors interview they see in their socials was bought & paid for by studios campaigning.
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What’s interesting to me is it’s a window into the Penske pay-to-play world of awards season. While no big secret in Hollywood I doubt most consumers know that every actors-on-actors interview they see in their socials was bought & paid for by studios campaigning.
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“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth
Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator
ARLINGTON, VA—Describing the incident as a split-second operational judgment made under rapidly evolving conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the “fog of war” Thursday to explain why he ...
theonion.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth
My new ‘stack on how Elon Musk’s Grok is whitewashing Watergate to revamp Nixon’s image. Bizarrely, it’s using my little movie 18½ to help… open.substack.com/pub/danmirvi...
Grokipedia is Whitewashing Watergate
And besmirching my little film 18½ at the same time!?!
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My new ‘stack on how Elon Musk’s Grok is whitewashing Watergate to revamp Nixon’s image. Bizarrely, it’s using my little movie 18½ to help… open.substack.com/pub/danmirvi...
In Linklater’s great Nouvelle Vague Coutard tells Godard he’d make a great dolly grip. That reminded me of when I pushed dolly on my film Between Us and grip Mitch Galpin said only other director he had who’d pushed dolly was Johnny Depp on The Brave (whose OG producer was ax murderer I knew at USC)
On the set of À bout de souffle - Breathless.
Jean-Luc Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo
📷 Raymond Cauchetier, 1960
This is one of my favourite film-set photographs.
Jean-Luc Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo
📷 Raymond Cauchetier, 1960
This is one of my favourite film-set photographs.
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In Linklater’s great Nouvelle Vague Coutard tells Godard he’d make a great dolly grip. That reminded me of when I pushed dolly on my film Between Us and grip Mitch Galpin said only other director he had who’d pushed dolly was Johnny Depp on The Brave (whose OG producer was ax murderer I knew at USC)
This is the Zapruder film of vomit flow… and I’m here for it, @tvaziri.com !
also notice the warping the VFX team did to make it seem like the stuff was coming out of Slattery's mouth
hey gang, sorry about putting all this pretend puke on your timeline
hey gang, sorry about putting all this pretend puke on your timeline
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is the Zapruder film of vomit flow… and I’m here for it, @tvaziri.com !
As troubling as it is that James “Pimp outfit” O’Keefe is the one asking questions at Pentagon, the answer is more disturbing: We want our fake press rooting out dissenters in the Pentagon. Yikes! Worse than the McCarthyism.
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
As troubling as it is that James “Pimp outfit” O’Keefe is the one asking questions at Pentagon, the answer is more disturbing: We want our fake press rooting out dissenters in the Pentagon. Yikes! Worse than the McCarthyism.
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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
Bong Hits AI!
Prequel to Dune where you’re in tactical gear behind a ridge sighting in the scope on your plasma rifle as your commanders Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song and Guillermo Del Toro prepare to launch the atomics against the Butlerian data centers deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Jenna Ortega Says “We’ve Opened Up A Pandora’s Box” – Marrakech
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Celine Song, Jenna Ortega Address AI Fears- Marrakech
deadline.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Bong Hits AI!
Now whose goose-steppin’ boots are made for walking?? #TeamNancy
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Now whose goose-steppin’ boots are made for walking?? #TeamNancy
Happy to promote my book today on Reading Thanksgiving. THE CHEERFUL SUBVERSIVE’s GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING (2nd Ed). Available on #audiobook, too (with me reading!) www.amazon.com/Cheerful-Sub...
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy to promote my book today on Reading Thanksgiving. THE CHEERFUL SUBVERSIVE’s GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING (2nd Ed). Available on #audiobook, too (with me reading!) www.amazon.com/Cheerful-Sub...
“Pierogi!!!!”
Uh…Alan Dershowitz is “charismatic” and “where most Americans are?” Huh?
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“Pierogi!!!!”
Go Bears!!!
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Go Bears!!!
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Seeing an item just now in a financial newsletter noting that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang are all 5’7” reminded me of Asset-Adjusted Height — the concept we invented for this chart, part of a cover story in Spy’s issue #8 in 1987.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Seeing an item just now in a financial newsletter noting that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang are all 5’7” reminded me of Asset-Adjusted Height — the concept we invented for this chart, part of a cover story in Spy’s issue #8 in 1987.
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Nazis were “potentially divisive” to Europe, too…
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Nazis were “potentially divisive” to Europe, too…
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Wow!! Neil Young and Norm Ornstein in high school together!?!?! (Happy Birthday, Neil!)
Happy 80th birthday to my friend and high school classmate Neil Young. What a remarkable, incomparable talent. Across so many genres with so many unforgettable songs. Plus, he is a patriot of courage, moral force, and commitment. And a really good guy!
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Wow!! Neil Young and Norm Ornstein in high school together!?!?! (Happy Birthday, Neil!)
On the upside, The Situation Room is now just a pile of dirt where the East Wing was.
This is atrocious.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
On the upside, The Situation Room is now just a pile of dirt where the East Wing was.