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

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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

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)

Belgian poster for the 1954 noir BLACK TUESDAY Starring Edward G. Robinson Cinematography by Stanley Cortez Directed by Hugo Fregonese - BOTD in 1908

Wednesday mood

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

Well-deserving of its rep as one of the best action films of all time. A martial arts comedy with an endless capacity to surprise and delight, like a Buster Keaton silent comedy classic if BK was a bad ass martial artist. One of movie's set pieces even takes place on and around an old-timey train

Raquel Torres in an MGM portrait, c 1930.

Gene Tierney at her parents’ house, circa 1940

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Laura Dern in WILD AT HEART

Cat Soup (2001) Directed by Tatsuo Sato

Images from films shot by cinematographer Walt Lloyd - BOTD in 1950 To Sleep with Anger (1990) Pump Up the Volume (1990) Kafka (1991) Short Cuts (1993)

Billie Holiday rocking a fur coat She was BOTD in 1915

Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, and a gorilla in a publicity still for the pre-Code comedy SO THIS IS AFRICA (1933) Wheeler was BOTD in 1895

Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando on the set of THE GODFATHER (1972) Coppola was BOTD in 1939

Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) Starring Jackie Chan - BOTD in 1954 Directed by Stanley Tong - BOTD in 1960

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) Written and directed by Aki Kaurismaki

Marie Windsor in The Narrow Margin by Richard Fleischer (1952)

Veronica Lake

Japanese poster for THE CONVERSATION (1974) Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola - BOTD in 1939

Images from films shot by cinematographer Bill Butler - BOTD in 1921 Deathmaster (1972) Jaws (1975) Demon Seed (1977) Child's Play (1988)

Czech poster for ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) Directed by Alan J. Pakula - BOTD in 1928