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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good to see the picture (bald man pointing at CRT screen) that launched a thousand digital effects publicity poses. I feel compelled to post this classic meta image, a witty satire of wheels within wheels, that graced the pages of Cinefex 77.

Master cartoonist and visual effects supervisor John Van Vliet (L) and digital artist William Arance make an amusing gesture during the making of "My Favorite Martian" (1999). Picture specially posed and then printed, with tongue in cheek, in Cinefex 77.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I noticed they didn’t leave him in the sun too long.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cinefex clip with Yanik's painting.

Extract from Cinefex 134 with painting by Yanick Dusseault.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amen to that. I had the privilege of climbing inside the film and interviewing many of the filmmakers for Cinefex magazine, back in the day. A few years later, I penned a purple-prose review of the film for my blog, archived at the ugly URL below: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e3...

The precog, Agatha (Samanth Morton), embraces the Pre-Crime officer who freed her and tells him, "You can choose, John Anderton."

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cinema. ❤️📽️⚔️🏹❤️

Projectionist at Burbank AMC 16 doing heroic work with “The Odyssey.”

The 70mm platter at Burbank AMC loaded up with “The Odyssey.”

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah, it's a really cool show; but it's based on the work of Swedish graphic artist Simon Stålenhag, not Spielberg or Azimov. Showrunner Nathaniel Halpern adapted his own intriguing mythology from brief narrative descriptions that Stålenhag had for his evocative sci-fi art pieces. simonstalenhag.se

Simon Stålenhag's art of an American housewife and her small robotic assistant encountering a giant, sad decrepit machine.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Because you put this image in my head, Pablo, I present to you, the Donald T. Rump Memorial Meat Pool.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Kes” would like a word…

Poster for “Kes” a 1969 film by Ken Loach based on the novel “A Kestrel for a Knave” by Barry Hines.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Choosing only four is the hardest part. 1) Hulot: my favorite summer movie, Dad took my Mum to see this when they were courting. 2) Blimp: what it is to be British. 3) Doinel: Truffaut's heartbreaking cinematic life story. 4) Bowie: loving the alien. Pick yours here: thecriterioncloset.com#closet

Criterion covers for a Jacques Tati classic, a Powell & Pressburger masterpiece, a fantastic Antoine Doinel collection, and Nic Roeg's trippy film of The Man Who Fell To Earth.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Design a tattoo: turn bad scar into good. I have a couple of dog scars. My parents' dog chomped my upper lip when I was trying to retreive a popsicle stick. Another from my dog, Flash, who motorbiked his legs when I tickled his tummy and left a happy scar on my forearm. I'll drink to your leg.

Quint and Matt Hooper compare scars and fishing stories below decks on the Orca somewhere off Amity Island, circa 1975.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Marvelous film. The 1972 UK television version was deeply traumatizing for me as a boy.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I, too, spoke with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

The Prince of Darkness manifests in John Carpenter's 1987 film.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fab to see folk flocking to this slice of history. A friend and I wrote another version of the tapestry’s story, from Harold’s point of view: in which a dying king with a loaded agenda baits two rival warlords for control of Dark Ages England ⚔️🐴🪶👑 www.msn.com/en-us/news/w... www.1066screenplay.com

'Tapisserie Mathilde' –– the 70 meter (230 ft) embroidery depicting William the First's 11th Century invasion of England –– in its ancestral home of Bayeaux, Normandy.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And here it is, cropped for 2.39:1 and turned into a repeating gif 🤌💋

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Whoa, we predicted this month ago, back when he was posting AI images of the monument looking like an Olympic swimming pool

Bluesky post from May 2026 modifying White House doctored image of The Reflecting Pool, transforming idealized swimming pool color to an algae-infested lagoon.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Andy, this is a low-res scan, but I thought you might like to see a snap I took on Omaha Beach, November 2000.

My footsteps in the sand looking West, where I walked with my parents on the coast of Colleville-sur-Mer, Normany, November 2000.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Remembering June 6, 1944, with my old Spielberg Film Society review from 1998. tinyurl.com/n2tr9tv2 🪖🎖️☮️

Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller holds the line on a bridge in the bombed-out ruins of Ramelle, a fictional Normandy village in Spielberg's film "Saving Private Ryan." Header image for my August 1998 Spielberg Film Society review hosted at Flashfilms.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I vote for Adam Scott as Richard Feynman. static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp...

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

John, your passion for the accordion still shines through.

Accordion master of yesteryear, identity unknown.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

First picture I took with my first iPhone. She was about a year and a half old. She’s now almost 14.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When my Dad died, he left his pride and joy open-air backyard swimming pool open to the UK elements. For a few years it sat stagnant, no chlorination or cleaning, and it went from crystal-clear shimmering sapphire blue to a black pit. Who knows what lurked within. I'm guessing that'll happen here.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Also handy for eerie visualizations of ancient historical events!

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The flags that waved behind the tall chain-link fences of Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Clacton beckoned me as a lad while visiting my grandparents in the 1970s. But never did I venture into their perimeter. Brrrr.

All hail the golden glory of 1970s Butlin’s Holiday Camp!

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

They will never pry my 1983 ticket stubs from my cold, dead hands! 🤓

Two grubby scraps of paper that I’ve saved since I purchased them in the summer of 1983.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This little phrase stuck in my mind all day, so I cartooned it.

Celebrating the comment by NASA's Artemis II chief training officer Jacki Mahaffey uttered at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in response to Wiseman-Glover-Koch-Hansen's lunar observations.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Beware surrendering to the lover of crusts for, after the first bite, thou will forever be beholden to the sacred covenant of sacrificing their eternal crispy crunch.

Lucy works her grift, focusing her golden gaze upon the weak-willed human consuming a delicious pizza.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very moved by Artemis II launch today, which obliterated the negativity that's surrounded this admin's attitude to space science. Astounded to discover NASA's tracking app that allows us to image the progress of Wiseman-Glover-Koch-Hansen in real-time. Go, science! 🚀❤️🌚 www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Well, that was eye-popping 🤓

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Happy CE3K day, to all who celebrate the U.K. premiere of Spielberg's film at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, 48 years ago today. #WeAreNotAlone #Odeon #Spielberg

A rainy night at the royal premiere of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" at the Odeon Leicester Square on March 13, 1978, and images of the cinema's cavernous interior, inset with bendy Puck, the badge my dad bought for me, and the little boy whose mind was blown in this exact same theatre a couple of weeks later.

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lauri, that would be "chaos-driven content" unleashed by Disciples of The Old Ones, or those who drink the Blood of Kali.

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