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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 6h

This fucking movie. (Complimentary)

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18h

"We were particularly impressed by your article '[TITLE]'." So very flattering.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trying very hard not to think of the last time they did this. 😬

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Let's take it to the limit one more time. 🫡

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve been on an extended movie-buying hiatus for the past two months but made an exception for this sexy beast from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social 😍

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s so much fun. The students keep a hand-written media logbook in which they respond to three questions I give them each week. I read all their photographed notes, grade them, and write brief responses at the end of each week.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The hardest-hitting line of them all. 😭

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New addition to the list of upcoming screenings: MIAMI VICE 🤘🏻

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These were some of the instructions the contributors to the volume received — you love to see it!

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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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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plus it's maybe time for an update of my all-time most watched list. #LetterboxdFriday

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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 · 21/09/2026

Now and forever the greatest TV pilot of all time.

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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 · 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

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 · 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 · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Spinal Tap and Puppet Show have both pulled out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This week, I’m making my students watch BACK TO THE FUTURE alongside the pilot episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY — two enduring media texts that reflect (in very different ways!) on hyper-conservative nostalgia for the 1950s.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Drop a movie you love that has a featured cast of ten people or fewer.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This one line hit me like an absolute sledgehammer back in 2005. Changed my life.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A big reunion of my student group from way back when plunged me into a self-indulgent vortex of nostalgic melancholy all weekend, so obviously these are the movies I’m watching tonight.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cary Grant describing another character by saying he looks like the famous actor who’s playing him. 🤭

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tonight’s double feature: two of the greatest media satires ever made.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not a great movie perhaps but this image is one of the most incredible in all of Spielberg’s career.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Preparing tomorrow’s class on THE WIZARD OF OZ ended up pulling me down a Judy Garland rabbit hole, so after blasting JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL all afternoon I ended up rewatching A STAR IS BORN tonight. 😍😭

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every week, I give them three prompts to respond to. We're starting off very easy, asking for personal memories and associations with the required viewings, and hope to raise the bar as we accumulate concepts and ideas from the textbook and the seminars.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maybe my single favorite shot in all of THE WIZARD OF OZ.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So excited to finally start teaching my completely overhauled Introduction to Media Studies class this Wednesday! For every week's required viewing, I've paired a feature film with a thematically appropriate TV pilot — all thematically organized (more or less) around THE WIZARD OF OZ. 🤗

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Looks like I’m in similar territory – but in my case, it’s been mostly THE GRAY MAN!

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NINE TO FIVE features some delightful performances and terrific left-wing politics — but it's shot and edited with astonishing indifference, including some shots that a more competent director would never have used. 🫣

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This particular picture of Dolly always takes my breath away. RIP, queen. 😭👑

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

But the one truly essential release is the four-disc box set DOLLY, one of the greatest titles to appear back in the heyday of these physical media collections.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tonight’s Great State of Texas-themed double feature:

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me having to do literally any work around the house.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Screening TWISTER for the kids – an old-fashioned blockbuster that’s maybe most memorable for the unhinged magazine cover it inspired.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Still happy to have quit rating films! The experience is pleasantly different now that I don’t feel compelled to judge everything I watch so precisely.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What’s your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

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