Little Fugitive (1953) Co-written, co-directed, and shot by Morris Engel - BOTD in 1918

Drama: Werckmeister Harmonies Action/adventure: PTU Horror: Trouble Every Day Comedy: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Romance: Before Midnight Oscar Winner: Spirited Away

Mary Pickford for Little Anne Rooney (1925). Also, midweek mood. #botd

Tyrone Power and Olympic figure skating champion turned actress Sonja Henie dancing in the Tex Avery cartoon HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941) Henie was BOTD in 1912

Silent Running (1972) Starring Bruce Dern Directed by Douglas Trumbull - BOTD in 1942

Ursula Andress at a party at the Savoy Hotel in London (1969)

Andre Bazin, film critic and cat lover

Catalog (1961) Hypnotic experimental computer graphics short that was a big influence on the special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey Music by Ornette Coleman (!) Directed by John Whitney Sr. - BOTD in 1917 youtu.be/TbV7loKp69s?...

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

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

Mary Pickford with a cat on his shoulder Pickford was BOTD in 1892

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)

Wednesday mood

Patricia Arquette and David Lynch on the set of LOST HIGHWAY (1997) Arquette was BOTD in 1968

This is the track I will be listening to as the nuclear apocalypse begins. youtu.be/9xeim-LMcqk?...

“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.” -Mary Pickford #BOTD

Swedish poster for the silent classic THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE (1918) Directed and co-written by Victor Sjostrom Starring Sjostrom and his wife Edith Erastoff - BOTD in 1887

Hsiao-Hsien Hou (with scenes from his film "Three Times") - BOTD

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

Sweet Jesus Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Tatyana Protsenko in the Soviet children's musical THE ADVENTURES OF BURATINO (1976) She was BOTD in 1968

Johnnie To's ELECTION (2005). The lives of To's gangsters are strikingly free of the pursuit of pleasure. What drives these dudes is humiliation --they live in constant fear of it and devote all their time and energy to humiliating their rivals before their rivals get a chance to humiliate them.

Claudia Cardinale sur une terrasse sur les toits de Rome, 1959 © Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images.

Little Fugitive (1953) Co-written, co-directed, and shot by Morris Engel - BOTD in 1918

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

Tatyana Protsenko in the Soviet children's musical THE ADVENTURES OF BURATINO (1976) She was BOTD in 1968

Mamdani’s New York 🫡

Happy National Banjo Day! "Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" by Uncle Dave Macon youtu.be/4bkLnWN9WSA?...

When I get a new follower.

Tyrone Power and Olympic figure skating champion turned actress Sonja Henie dancing in the Tex Avery cartoon HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941) Henie was BOTD in 1912

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Silent Running (1972) Starring Bruce Dern Directed by Douglas Trumbull - BOTD in 1942

Swedish poster for the silent classic THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE (1918) Directed and co-written by Victor Sjostrom Starring Sjostrom and his wife Edith Erastoff - BOTD in 1887

A movie couple that absolutely would have had a podcast: (How is this not the first one 😆)

Andre Bazin, film critic and cat lover

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

A Swedish poster featuring Lili Damita for Red Heels (1925). Artwork by Eric Rohman.

Mandatory viewing if even just for how a word-for-word text-to-screen highlights how gorgeously ugly, cruel, and apocalyptic so much of the Gospel really is. Brutal divinity and an unsettling tone of misery from birth to Crucifixion.

Patricia Arquette in "Lost Highway" - BOTD

Catalog (1961) Hypnotic experimental computer graphics short that was a big influence on the special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey Music by Ornette Coleman (!) Directed by John Whitney Sr. - BOTD in 1917 youtu.be/TbV7loKp69s?...

María Félix in "French Cancan" - BOTD

A movie couple that absolutely would have had a podcast.

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

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Wednesday mood

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