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Dan Hassler-Forest

@danhf.bsky.social
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Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fa…

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 49m
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 3h
Great start of the day with an in-class exercise analysing the functions of style in film form, using George Michael’s “Freedom ‘90” music video as our object of analysis.
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Cindy Crawford in George Michael's Freedom! '90
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21h
"So how is the complete and total destruction of New York going?" "It's proceeding as planned." The mayor of my city is such a rock star. #swoon 🥰
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 22h
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 22h
"Ultimately, I was the audience's guide into a very scary place. ... I'm sort of David's submersible. ... I'm tethered to the mothership, right? But then I'm now kind of on my own exploring this dark place."
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 22h
Very excited to travel to Berlin tomorrow, where I'll give the closing keynote at the conference "Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s)", organized by the JFK institute of the Free University. www.popmec.com/futures-and-...
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Futures and Frontiers | Final Program – PopMeC
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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 23h
5 favorite British films...as of right now: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (The Archers) WHISKY GALORE! (Mackendrick) THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (Ivory) BARRY LYNDON (Kubrick) DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg)
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just two more weeks until we screen one of the greatest comedies ever made. www.lab111.nl/cine-of-the-...
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Cine Of The Times presents Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) incl. pre-show - Events - Events
For the next Cine of the Times, film critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest turn to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Jake Kasdan’s 2007 satire that took apart the music biopic so thoroug...
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✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am but a woman standing in front of her thousands of followers begging them to watch season five of FARGO which is arguably one of the best seasons of television ever made.
A man in a cowboy hat talking to a woman in a hospital room. A man with a bowl cut smiling. A woman pointing a shotgun. A woman with folded hands leaning on a table.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤩🤩🤩🤩
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Writing about TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN for a collection on the values of “resisting usefulness” in media. Great opportunity to consider the ways in which Lynch deviates from the constraints of what I call narrative utilitarianism.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. I Wish 2. Knocks Me Off My Feet 3. Sir Duke Got tickets for the 50th anniversary tour in Amsterdam on Oct 28 and can barely contain myself already!! 🥳
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
today in psychoanalysis still slaps a lucky dude cremates his own status, legitimacy, legacy
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This year, we've decided to flee from all family obligations and instead spend Christmas touring the Alps by rail: first a night train to Innsbruck, then on to Chur in Switzerland, and back home by night train from Zürich. Can't wait!!
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Suiza: Beautiful Alpine Train Journey
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Weirdly excited to finally sit down and actually read this daunting tome for the #TwinPeaks book I’m writing. Let’s fucking go!!
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
god said free Palestine
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Three absolute bangers and one lukewarm miniseries. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Twin Peaks: The Return Curb Your Enthusiasm Friday Night Lights On Cinema at the Cinema I Will Destroy You Better Call Saul The Wire The Leftovers It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Station Eleven
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How nice for me that the greatest/scariest scene in cinema history can be justifiably referred to as “the Dan scene” in MULHOLLAND DR.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s really just five so far that I feel very strongly about: 28 DAYS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE BLUE HERON HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR COYOTE VS. ACME
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today we scheduled the upcoming screenings of films for our Cine of the Times series at Lab111 in Amsterdam: Oct 15: WALK HARD Nov 27: UNDER THE SKIN Dec: MARIE ANTOINETTE Jan: MAGIC MIKE XXL
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I think I kinda want it
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We should stop calling LLMs “AI” if we really want to be more truthful. And definitely stop saying they hallucinate when they just simply don’t work.
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Shayna Weiss @shaynamalka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Perfect scene from a perfect movie
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such a great time in today’s Media Studies classes with that incredible scene from MAGIC MIKE XXL where Richie does an impromptu dance to the Back Street Boys. 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr6i...
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Magic Mike XXL, Richie´s dance in supermarket (HD 1080)
YouTube video by Günther Hösele
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Agent Cooper's Thumbs Up
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back on my bullshit.
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 21/09/2026
James Gray and I talked a lot about the role of the artist in relation to the effects of capitalism
To me, our economic system incentivizes cruelty to a degree that deeply upsets me. In any business negotiation, the party who cares less [about nonfinancial outcomes] holds all the leverage. That single dynamic demonstrates how brutal the system is. It chews people up and spits them out. I saw how harsh that system was on my parents. As an artist, my job isn’t to solve problems—a creative person can’t solve systemic issues, but we can point them out and transform the world’s pain into art. Corporate power has become so unassailable that people feel disconnected and alienated. When political systems and corporations fail, artists need to step into that void and speak out.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Earlier today I spoke on the Dutch radio news about the history of Sesame Street and its importance within the realm of public service broadcasting. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/v...
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Welke herinneringen heeft u aan Bert en Ernie?
Ze zitten vaak op elkaar te mopperen, maar zijn na vijftig jaar nog steeds vriendjes; het Iconische Sesamstraat duo Bert en Ernie.  Afgelopen weekend maakte Paul Haenen bekend dat hij stopt als stem v...
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week, the 200 students in my Storytelling in Media and Performance course watch both 12 ANGRY MEN and ASTEROID CITY — they will have to write about the latter. Can't wait to hear their thoughts on both films, and how they play off each other!
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enshittification intensifies. Buy physical media. 🤗
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This idea is developed most comprehensively in Adam Kotsko's phenomenal book WHY WE LOVE SOCIOPATHS. thenewinquiry.com/why-we-love-...
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Why We Love Sociopaths
We live in the age of the sociopath. They are dominant figures on television and appear within essentially every television genre. An excerpt
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Do you remember The 21st of September?" Happy Earth, Wind & Fire day to all those who celebrate. 🎉🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve got a ticket for Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life tour. YESSSSS!!!
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Stevie Wonder Playing Vintage Drums
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING flat out blew me away: one of the most exciting films I’ve seen in ages. Don’t sleep on it!
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY on Netflix, which shot to the top of my list of things to do just because it stars Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps. It's fun!
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along" www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's just one absolute banger after another the last couple of days. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW MUSIC KLAXON: Carly Rae Jepsen double album DAY AND NIGHT drops today. 🤗🎉
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week, I had my students watch BACK TO THE FUTURE and the pilot episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY, and then write about which they thought was more politically conservative. Genuinely fascinating to read their answers today!
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Marty McFly: Hey I've Seen This One!
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What I wouldn’t give to see the expression on my 20-year-old face if someone told him I’d end up teaching and writing about film as an actual career 🤩
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A student came up to me yesterday to tell me they thought I had a vibe that reminded them of Matt Johnson. Guess I'll take it as a compliment! 🤪
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Matt Johnson Ntbts
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ok, to get something positive from the ed sheeran discourse: what's the *best* musician cameo in a tv show or film? (Bruce Springsteen in HIGH FIDELITY)
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On October 15, I'm delighted to host a special screening of WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY as part of our ongoing Cine of The Times series at Lab111 in Amsterdam. Tickets now on sale: www.lab111.nl/cine-of-the-...
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Cine Of The Times presents No Country For Old Men (2007)
For the next Cine of the Times, film critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest turn to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Jake Kasdan’s 2007 satire that took apart the music biopic so thoroug...
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yesterday I spoke on Dutch radio about Macklemore, the Ed Sheeran tour, and the problems that arise when the billionaire class decides who gets to perform in the arenas they own. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...
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Gaat de Amerikaanse tour van Ed Sheeran door of niet?
Gaat de Amerikaans tour van Ed Sheeran door of niet? Dat is de grote vraag nu de begeleidingsband en drie artiesten die in zijn voorprogramma zouden spelen zich hebben teruggetrokken. Dit doen ze als ...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/09/2026
Paul Verhoeven: “When [the Trump administration] talks about Starship Troopers, they should be aware that it’s based on the style of Leni Riefenstahl. I don’t know if this president is aware that the movie says these [characters] are fascists without knowing that they’re fascists. That’s the point.”
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Paul Verhoeven on U.S. Space Force’s ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Uniforms: “It’s Based on Leni Riefenstahl”
The director of the 1997 sci-fi film, which has often been misunderstood, says the gung-ho soldiers who are its heroes "are fascists without knowing that they’re fascists. That’s the point.”
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Spinal Tap and Puppet Show have both pulled out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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