John Washburn ❌👑

@johnwashburn

Writer, Director, and freelance creative. Nicholl/AFF etc. Irrationally excited by mood boards and color palettes. Arsenal FC. Will comment on politics. He/his.

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John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· 28d

Soderbergh's new picture, The Christophers, is just A+ in every respect. Ian McKellen and Michaela Cole are both just so masterful. James Corden and Jessica Gunning are extremely satisfying as the old artist's grifting children. The whole movie is a warm bath of cranky wonderfulness. #filmsky

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jul 6

Norway! As an Arsenal supporter I'm against Man City so Haaland is a notorious figure. But I'm half-Norwegian, and Odegaard is hero in my house, so of course I'm supporting... Haaland is a beast. Whipped one in off a header and then megged a defender for a gorgeous low right corner. Brutal.

Haaland with Odegard and teammates after beating Brazil 2-1

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jun 29

Russian nesting garbage bins

A Cybertruck with a big metal container in the bed

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jun 15

Huh. Interesting points, now do America.

Nyt editorial excerpt reads:
“We lay out these facts with no pleasure. Iran has been and remains a force for ill. It represses its own people, especially political dissidents, women, L.G.B.T.Q. people and religious minorities. It is a world leader in torture and executions, and it has financed terrorism in its region and far beyond. Iran's leaders have impoverished a country where per capita income was above the global average as recently as the 1970s.”

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jun 12

google home page with "How do I short" in the search box. First predictive search answer is "how to short spacex"

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· May 19

Feels

Screenshot of 6:15am alarm with the label “fuck my life and then fuck it again”

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Apr 29

At least he’s self-aware, I guess

Cybertruck with a sticker that reads “Baby in Car”

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Apr 25

Lynne Ramsey’s Die My Love is a masterpiece. Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson turn in A+ performances. Seamus McGarvey’s photography captures frame after frame of dreamy beauty in 35mm. On mubi or Amazon etc

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Apr 25

Hello, late bloomers.

A page from a quote of the day thing that reads:

Saturday, April 25
A great future doesn't require a great past.
William Chapman

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Apr 18

Buckle up! It’s about to get real…

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Apr 2

Super stoked this is finally out! A spot I wrote/directed for a collab between Crown Royal and Realtree starring Rob Rausch (The Traitors, Love Island) just dropped...

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 31

The Economist commiting a journalism

Phone alert:

The Economist
20m ago
Donald Trump is threatening to send troops to Iran. It's not clear he knows what they should do

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 31

"With pleasure" isn't even in the shooting script at all. #nerdAlert

screenshot of a portion of the shooting script from Star Wars where Tarkin say to "set your course for Alderaan"

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 28

No Kings NYC

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 23

I was shooting a commercial in Nairobi and we wanted a scene with monkeys, so we went to City Park. We bought some bags of peanuts to lure the monkeys from vendors who sell them for that purpose. A monkey leaped in the air and ripped a bag out of my hands. Kind of intense and grim, tbh.

Monkeys trying to shake down film crew for peanuts

Talent playing a travel influencer making a 'selfie' with a monkey on a car

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 20

Tired doggo

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Mar 10

Theatre

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Feb 3

Apologies to everyone nominated for a Spirit Award this year... #filmsky

Screenshot of "voting successfully completed" message for the Film Independent Spirit Awards

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jan 14

Ouch

In a New Year's Day video published before his first time on air as anchor, Dokoupil railed against "legacy media" for taking "into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American" and putting "too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough
on you," closely mirroring many critiques that Weiss herself has made over the years. Dokoupil, who shares a four-floor townhouse in one of Brooklyn's most exclusive enclaves with his wife-MS NOW anchor Katy Tur-was educated at a $53,000-a-year prep school, attended
George Washington University and Columbia University, where he did not complete a PhD.
The Daily Beast has reached out to CBS for comment.

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Jan 13

According to the cube rule, it's a taco... cuberule.com

Chart showing the Cube Rule of Food:
1. toast (flat, single layer)
2. sandwich (parallel layers)
3. taco (three connected sides
4. sushi (four sides, two sides open)
5. Soup/Salad (five sides, top open)
6. Calzone (all six sides closed)

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Dec 9

Location scouting in Georgia yesterday

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Nov 27

Exactly. And that reminds me of the time someone put up this Henry Cartier-Bresson photo up on a Flickr critique group without mentioning his name, wherein it was ripped to shreds for dumb "technical" reasons, such as the bicyclist not being in focus or something.

Famous photo by Cartier-Bresson of a geometrical staircase leading down to a street with a bicyclist racing by

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Nov 27

The fella behind "Friendsgiving is gay." His username is a big bowl of "what the actual fuck???" And what does "ball knower" mean?

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Nov 21

We're making a movie! Still early days, but after a couple years of rolling a tiny pebble into a chunky snowball, it’s time to say it out loud… It's dark comedy crime drama: Fargo v Uncut Gems with the moral rot of Breaking Bad More at seamuslynchfilm.com #filmsky #scriptsky

Poster art for The Sad and Tawdry Story of Seamus Lynch depicting a man wearing glasses suspended upside down in the ocean.

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Oct 27

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Oct 20

WTAF?

predictive text for a search for "is it illegal"reads:
• is it illegal to hit a girl
• is it illegal to drive barefoot
• is it illegal to burn money
• is it illegal to collect rainwater

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Sep 14

Heartbreaking and brilliant. Josh O’Connor is magnetic, Paul Mescal delivers #TheHistoryOfSound #filmsky

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Sep 11

Well, this doesn't exactly suck... My darkly comedic crime drama, "The Sad and Tawdry Story of Seamus Lynch," goes two rounds in Austin. Congrats to the other second rounders and big ups to those who advanced past that. Onward! #scriptsky

Laurel reads:
Script Competition
Second Rounder
Austin Flim Festival
2025

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Aug 27

So, I’m inferring that George Will didn’t need a college degree. Other than his PhD from Princeton, or his master’s from Oxford, not to mention his bachelor’s from Trinity. But he surely sent his kids to trade schools…. What’s that?

WaPo editorial by notable egalitarian George F. Will:

Too many college students
The "everyone must go to college" mindset has been a disservice to millions of young people.

John Washburn ❌👑@johnwashburn· Aug 20

Here's Sollazzo in the Luca Brasi assassination scene. The visual cues are basically the same. (Shot by Gordon Willis, you know the director)