Director Larisa Shepitko on the set of her second feature film, WINGS (1966) She was BOTD in 1938

German poster for THE ASCENT (1977) Directed and co-written by Larisa Shepitko - BOTD in 1938

Loretta Young in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" - BOTD

Soviet poster for Tamilla (1927). Poster art by Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg, 1928.

Nathalie Richard in "Irma Vep" - BOTD

Gwili Andre in a publicity shot for Roar Of The Dragon (1932).

BTD - Capucine - Walk On The Wild Side - 1962 - Italian release poster - art by Angelo Cesselon

Betty Compson and her record player. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1925.

Viridiana (1961) dir: Luis Buñuel

Loretta Young in "Man's Castle" - BOTD

The issue is that everyone thinks you "consume" media, like eating food, and so all the parts of it become part of what you make afterwards, so if you "consume" something problematic then now you're problematic too, even if you think you aren't.

Cats usually go down well on social media, so there’s this… youtu.be/np5z_yiuhKo

Much to my disappointment, at no point in MR. NICE GUY does Jackie Chan use his tv chef skills to beat up bad guys, not even a wok to some goon's face. If you can overlook that glaring flaw, this is a very fun flick featuring the stellar action choreography you'd expect. There's even a mall brawl!

Now watching MR. NICE GUY (1997), an Australia-set action comedy in which a tv chef inadvertently gets on the bad side of a germophobic drug kingpin Directed by Sammo Hung Starring Jackie Chan and Richard Norton - BOTD in 1950

Syd Barrett - BOTD in 1946

“I’ve long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a bug and a river, or a river and a voice shouting above it. There’s no sense or meaning in anything. It's nothing but a network of dependency under enormous fluctuating pressures.” -Béla Tarr #BOTD Sátántangó (1994)

Eartha Kitt, 1954

Lobby card for the lost silent drama THE DEVIL DANCER (1927) Starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong Directed by Fred Niblo - BOTD in 1874

Argentine poster for BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925) Directed by Fred Niblo - BOTD in 1874

Loretta Young in one of my favorite pre-Code flicks, MIDNIGHT MARY (1933) Young was BOTD in 1913

One of the best teachers I ever had. She taught us starry-eyed USC film students what directing really was all about. She left us with tremendous wisdom like: "No one gives a shit about you" and "Easy is hard and hard is easy"

I wish I had time to rewatch a Bela Tarr movie today. It only took a single frame in one of his films for it to dawn on the viewer that he was one of the rarefied few whose concept of cinema seemed to embody its greatest possibilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPC...

Nina Foch and a four-legged friend in a publicity still for CRY OF THE WEREWOLF (1944)

Piotr Szulkin's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY (1981) is a reminder that totalitarianism never changes, whether the fascists call themselves communists or capitalists. Change the Martians to tech oligarchs, TV to the internet/genAI, & this, like most great sf, is about today the world over.

In search of lost time

Béla Tarr visiting a store in Peru selling pirated DVDs and posing with the owner and bootlegs of his own work, one of the realest ones, RIP

RIP Béla Tarr one of the best to ever do it. In his later years, he would tell film students to just go out there and make films on their phones, and not worry about having to adhere to rules of film production and distribution that simply did not exist any more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2M...

Gustave Doré, born on this day in 1832, a pervasive influence on film culture including King Kong & Beauty and the Beast.

What are your favorite films celebrating a decade anniversary in 2026? 1926 - The General 1936 - Mr. Thank You 1946 - Northwest Hounded Police 1956 - A Star is Bored 1966 - Daisies 1976 - God Told Me To 1986 - Righting Wrongs 1996 - A Moment of Innocence 2006 - Still Life 2016 - The Nice Guys

Richard Norton in his days as a bodyguard for ABBA He was BOTD in 1950

A great fight between Sammo Hung and the late Richard Norton in TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LUCKY STARS (1985). The flip SH takes off of one of Norton's kicks is just amazing. Norton was BOTD in 1950. He was always a great adversary for the likes of Sammo and Cynthia Rothrock. youtu.be/R612RqQDrho?...

Buster Keaton and Florence Turner as son and mother in COLLEGE (1927) Turner was BOTD in 1885. In the early 1900s, she was the most popular American actress in movies. Since the names of performers typically didn't appear in the credits back then, she was known to the public as the "Vitagraph Girl"

Tuesday mood

Phyllis Haver - BOTD in 1899

Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart in CHICAGO (1927) Haver was BOTD in 1899

Italian poster for BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1966) Starring Mickey Hargitay - BOTD in 1926

Belgian poster for HERCULES AGAINST THE SONS OF THE SUN (1964) Starring Mark Forest as Hercules. He was BOTD in 1933.

The Turin Horse (2011) Directed by Bela Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky Written by Tarr and Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai - BOTD in 1954

Satantango (1994) Directed and co-written by Bela Tarr (RIP) In Tarr's films, simply walking often feels like an act of bravery.

I think the people involved in gunfights in movies should always be well-dressed. If you can afford a gun and bullets, you can afford a nice tie and hat.

Cheng Pei-pei in King Hu's wuxia masterpiece COME DRINK WITH ME (1966) She was BOTD in 1946

Geez, another beautiful poster from the ‘30s.

ＳＬＡＮＧ 黄犬群 [1998] Directed By: Kazuyoshi Ozawa Nothing like Japanese action films. Such a banging movie. This RIP is from my personal VHS tape.

I think the people involved in gunfights in movies should always be well-dressed. If you can afford a gun and bullets, you can afford a nice tie and hat.

Poster for the lost Bebe Daniels romantic comedy WILD, WILD SUSAN (1925) Directed by A. Edward Sutherland - BOTD in 1895

What are your favorite films celebrating a decade anniversary in 2026? 1926 - The General 1936 - Mr. Thank You 1946 - Northwest Hounded Police 1956 - A Star is Bored 1966 - Daisies 1976 - God Told Me To 1986 - Righting Wrongs 1996 - A Moment of Innocence 2006 - Still Life 2016 - The Nice Guys

Just as Keaton's THE GENERAL could've only been made by a man who adored trains, PORCO ROSSO could only have been created by a man with a limitless love for planes. The scene where the film's hero, still human at the time, watches a parade of pilots fly their planes into Heaven is truly transcendent

Robert Duvall in THE OUTFIT (1973) He was BOTD in 1931

The House is Black (1963) Written and directed by Forugh Farrokhzad