From 1939, "Solid Old Man" with Django Reinhardt, Rex Stewart, Billy Taylor and Barney Bigard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHzI...

Remembering Fred Ebb on his birthday 🎂 📷 Janette Beckman, 2000 "A musician is supposed to improvise, but it's almost unheard-of for a lyricist. Yet Fred can improvise in rhyme and meter the way I can at the keyboard." - John Kander #GoGiants

Laura Dern in WILD AT HEART

Released in 1961, "Let Me In" by The Sensations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcd...

Released in 1965, "Linus and Lucy" by The Vince Guaraldi Trio. It helps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dURi...

Remembering Ida Kar on her birthday 🎂 📷 Self-portrait, c. 1960 "Kar brought an outsider's eye to bear on the world, her larger-than-life presence & extravagant dress sense setting her apart from her subjects, many of whom were bemused or bedazzled by her." - Sean O'Hagan

Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (1970) Scathing West German film in which a middle-class man with a seemingly satisfying life goes nuts one day in a shocking way Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler Starring Kurt Raab and Lilith Ungerer - BOTD in 1944

Bois Ton Café, Il Va Être Froid | Éric Rohmer | 1986.

Carmen McRae - BOTD

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (with scenes from his film "Bon Voyage") - BOTD

Remembering Vivienne Westwood on her birthday 🎂 📷 Bryan Adams, 2008 "She is the queen of punk, the fairy godmother of streetstyle, the dame who twirled knickerless at Buckingham Palace." - Jess Cartner-Morley

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands in Los Angeles, photographed by Sam Shaw in 1958.

Jalsaghar (The Music Room), Satyajit Ray (1958)

Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Werner Herzog (1979)

Irving Penn (American, 1917 - 2009) Isabella Rossellini Vogue, June 1997.

Hsiao-Hsien Hou (with scenes from his film "Millennium Mambo") - BOTD

Underlit spaces in the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien - BOTD in 1947 Dust in the Wind (1986) The Puppetmaster (1993) Flowers of Shanghai (1998) The Assassin (2015)

Remembering Adrian Boult on his birthday 🎂 📷 Don Smith, 1972 "There is an enormous amount of bluff in conducting. The first part of that bluff is that you must pretend to know all about your score." youtube.com/watch?v=ui9K...

Adrian Boult - BOTD

The Slits at the Music Machine, London (1977) Photo: Jill Furmanovsky / Rockarchive

#BOTD 1914 María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña: Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. www.theguardian.com/news/2002/ap...

María Félix in "French Cancan" - BOTD

María Félix was born on 8 April 1914.

Remembering Yip Harburg on his birthday 🎂 📷 Brownie Harris, 1978 "Yip was, after Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, one of the key figures in the transformation of the Broadway musical revues into the musical plays of the 40's and 50's and thereafter." - Gene Lees

Klaus Löwitsch in "World on a Wire" - BOTD

Patricia Arquette in "Lost Highway" - BOTD

Tenor Franco Corelli was born on 8 April 1921.

Mary Pickford, born 8 April 1892.

BTD - Mary Pickford - The Lord of Lightning, 1925 - Russian Poster

Soviet poster for LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1921) Starring Mary Pickford - BOTD in 1892 Poster designed by The Stenberg Brothers

Mary Pickford - BOTD

A young Stanley Kubrick (1946)

The 1910 Edison film A TRIP TO MARS imagines a landscape of giant trees and Yoda-eared goliaths that turn the hapless hero into a snowball with their frozen breath

I feel compelled to talk about Cecil B DeMille's THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY (1925), which is an insane movie based on an insane stage play. It's a time travel romance in which two modern couples are hurtled back to Elizabethan times via a train crash and that's the more normal part of the film.

Biz Markie #BOTD - "I'm Singin'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqj...

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1929 and died aged 49 in 1978, Jacques Romain Georges Brel.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Peter Perrett, 74 today.

Schlippenbach Trio (Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens) - "Feature 2" #Jazzsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-YU...

"We all try to imitate great musicians from another generation. You learn from it. Now I've developed my own language... improvisational stuff and someone who knows my music and hears me could say, 'This is Schlippenbach.'" Happy Birthday Alexander von Schlippenbach 7 April 1938

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Donita Sparks, 63 today.

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Ezra Koenig, 42 today.

Carmen McRae, American jazz singer, was born on Apr. 8, 1920 (d. 1994). #CarmenMcRae Carmen McRae with Sarah Vaughan - "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton) (1977) #Music #Jazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYPk...

Buster Keaton in Go West (1925)

Douglas Fairbanks being Douglas Fairbanks

"I have nothing in my mind except liberty and language." greekreporter.com/2026/02/09/d... ✒️ #DionysiosSolomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem, was #BOTD 8 April 1798. #Poetry #Literature

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." 🌹🎬 Canadian-American actor, producer, screenwriter, and co-founder of United Artists, #MaryPickford was #BOTD 8 April 1892. #Film

#BOTD 1892. Remembering silent film actress, producer, screenwriter, and co-studio founder (United Artists) Mary Pickford. (d.1979) #Filmsky

🎨 #AllenButlerTalcott, American landscape painter, was #BOTD 8 April 1867. #Art #Painting

🎨 Sir #FredericWilliamBurton, Irish painter, was #BOTD 8 April 1816. #Art #Painting

Happy 60th birthday, actress, producer, and director, Robin Wright. 🎂 #Filmsky