Michelangelo Antonioni in an interview with Jean-Luc Godard about The Red Desert. «My intention was to restore the beauty of this world, in which even factories can be extraordinarily beautiful.»

Marcello with cast and crew on the set of Fellini's 8½ (1963) 🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

1964, Los Angeles. Before she was The Queen of Bass, Carol Kaye was a session guitarist. Then she figured there were a lot of guitarists & not as many bass players, & she was red hot on the bass as well...

Chronique d’un été is a documentary made in 1961 by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, widely regarded as one of the founding works of cinéma vérité. A group of young people roam the streets of Paris and ask passers-by a single, almost disarming question — Êtes-vous heureux? (Are you happy?)

This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw

80 years ago today, Italians voted republic over monarchy in an institutional referendum. It was also the first vote by universal suffrage with women voting for the first time. So there is no work here today as the country celebrates Festa della Republica!

Drama sunset tonight

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“Marilyn had an incredible charisma that was so rare, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it... I loved working with her and a lot of people say that is clear in our scenes together. I absolutely adored her and we got on wonderfully.” Jack Lemmon remembering Marilyn Monroe, #BOTD.

Marilyn Monroe as Clara Bow by Richard Avedon for Life, 1958.

On May 27 Italian MPs were invited to gather in Parliament and focus on seat number 14, the one regularly occupied by Giacomo Matteotti, the Italian socialist MP assassinated by fascists in 1924. Most of of Georgia Meloni's ruling party MPs decided they had better things to do. Read more here:

They’re burning wood to power data centres in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

Talking about “remigration” implies you are merely repeating or correcting a minor error which already happened. Resuming what was before. A simple policy change which a new PM could implement at the press of a button. But opponents need to be clear about what it actually means:

if george orwell would’ve included shit like this in 1984, his editors would’ve told him to tone it the fuck down

La Pointe Courte, the first feature film directed by Agnès Varda in 1955. «There’s a mystery to La Pointe Courte that I’ve never been able explain: whatever drove me to make a film? I knew nothing about the cinema»

Are Farage and Reform getting the prominence they deserve? It seems that really minor Green misdemeanours (and false claims) are getting a lot of prominence, while lack of prominence given to the horrifically corrupt and racist goings on elsewhere is allowing us to career back into the #1930s.

Billie Holiday and Mel Tormé - and, unfortunately, I don't know the gentleman on the left - at a small jazz club in San Francisco.

Another English institution effectively captured by the far right. No place for democratic parties like the SNP and Plaid Cymru (too divisive) but a platform for a convicted figure of the far right in a debate on an Islamophobic topic, broadcast by GB News.

Bar’s open! @desdelboy.bsky.social

The health department’s top official, appointed by Wes Streeting, was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities.

Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda & Jacques Demy in Paris, 1965

Agnes Varda - BOTD in 1928

Well, that's this weekend's look sorted.

About Time! “A federal judge Friday ordered that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and that officials halt its plan to close the venue for two years.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

When u send real estate guys instead of diplomats to negotiate treaties what you don’t get is a sensible and realistic agreement but rather beachfront hotel and golf course investment opportunities for the regimes inside players.

#filmnoir #filmsky Without a doubt, the best photo of the day.

Keir Starmer’s Government Allows UK’s Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI

Henry Clarke Chapeau Gilbert Orcel, Paris Vogue français 1956

Marlene Dietrich and Vittorio De Sica "Montecarlo" (1956)

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The beauty of a blue window in a seaside town.💙🌿🌺

RIP Steve Barrow. 🙏 Prior to the magnificent Blood and Fire label, Steve worked for Trojan. In the late 80s he dug deep into their archive and compiled dozens of LPs that contained many rare reggae and rocksteady gems. Here's just 9 of those incredible LPs... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #musicsky

“In 2025 in the US, data centre protests have successfully stalled over $100bn worth of projects”: reporter and author @karenhao.bsky.social tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about how a coalition of resistance is growing to oppose the new AI ascendancy www.thenerve.news/p/interview-...

Sissy Spacek in Badlands, Terrence Malick (1973)

Dorothea Lange Café near Pinole, California, 1956

Another Vincent Price Sears collaboration was a series of movie making kits. These included make-up, movie signs, clapboard, invitations, tickets, directions, dressing room stars, title cards and a script

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“A man who limits his interests limits his life.” -Vincent Price #BOTD

A Smirnoff ad starring Vincent Price & a friend, from 1955; great shot by Bert Stern!

Your #5OClockInspiration ...

From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-sn...

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice has demanded an apology from Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate for Makerfield, after the Guardian reported he promoted Covid and anti-vax conspiracy theories. "The remarks are an insult to the more than 230,000 people killed by Covid-19 in the UK."

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

He Who Pays the Piper: The BBC, Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak and a Failure of Journalism @adambienkov.bsky.social pointing out how the BBC consistently fails to enlighten the license payer over the financial interests of its interviewees bylinetimes.com/2026/05/27/h...

Tony Blair, a lobbyist with close ties to the Trump administration and fossil fuel industries, says the UK should drill more oil and get closer to the Trump administration