'Babette's Feast' (Danish: Babettes Gæstebud) (1987) 💙 Directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay was written by Gabriel Axel, based on the (1958) story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).

Leonard McCombe (British/American, 1923–2015) what a fabulous picture.

The French Connection (1971) Directed by William Friedkin starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. Based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso.

#horror #filmsky #moviesky Bram Stoker #BOTD visited the ruins of 7th-century Whitby Abbey on the North Yorkshire Coast in 1890. It was the inspiration for the setting of his novel, Dracula, published in 1897.

A brilliant Podcast and discussion with Clare Mulley about a remarkable woman, Elzbieta Zawacka aka Agent Zo; a Polish resistance fighter during WW11. @claremulley.bsky.social #WW11 pca.st/episode/5884...

"After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers." ~ Martha Gellhorn (1908-1988) 'The Face of War' (1959).

Rainbow through the archway. This morning on Glastonbury Tor.

French photographer Jean-Michel Berts Tour Eiffel, 2005 #JeanMichelBerts #Photography

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. Hannah Arendt, (1906~1975)

Cars and humanoid robots - the future seems to have got stuck somewhere around 1955.

"Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia." 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Dave Gosling©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society

'Standing Strong' St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor against a textured sky this morning.

'Amor Mundi': "What is most difficult, writes Arendt, is to love the world as it is. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection, but the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.” ~ Hannah Arendt ~ (1906~1975)

"We come and go but the land is always here. The people who love it understand this." Maori Elder

"There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you..." Horace Giddens, (Herbert Marshall)

“we can turn the world around”

And the people have the power To redeem the work of fools From the meek the graces shower It's decreed the people rule People have the power People have the power People have the power People have the power youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?...

'Industrial Landscape', 1934, Oil Painting. Franz Sedlacek, Born: 21st January, (1891) Breslau, Poland. Died: circa (1945) Toruń, Poland.

A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

Sharing again because it’s so beautiful 🤩 In 2020, photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins comforting each other while looking over the Melbourne skyline.

k.d. lang by Jill Furmanovsky archival inkjet print, March 1992

A Movie you've seen more than seven times with a GIF

"I’ve had tea with the queen,” she says. “Not recently, obviously. Although I might be soon!”. Une grande canadienne.

#filmsky #moviesky #NoirvemberChallenge 1. Favorite film noir opening scene: The slow evil creepy meandering toward the diner in, The Killers, 1946

Drop something RED...

"In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones." ~ Sufi proverb; epigraph to Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale' (1985) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

"Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand; And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Midsummer Night's Dream, (Act 3, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday

"Milan, Italy is ranked as the most walkable city in the world." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photos by Walter Pasquali©️ | Architecture & Design

#BOTD 1926 Fulvio Roiter: Italian photographer. "Expert in black and white photography, he also used a personal technique in the colour of travel reportages that exalted places and unpublished details of the scene. " admiraphotography.com/photographer...

NEW EPISODE - The German Democratic Republic The Rise and Fall of a #ColdWar State with @historyned.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode428/ #eastgermany #GDR #DDR #berlinwall

In modern Irish folklore studies, she is sometimes known as The Hag of Beara, while in Scotland she is known as Beira, Queen of Winter.

Increased extreme events are predicted with current human induced climate change , but hey there’s a rural-based political party in Australia that does not like the idea of net zero🤷🏻‍♀️ QLD -beautiful one day, tornado the next 🌪️

"What we've got here is...failure to communicate." "Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men." (The Captain)

Rays of light shine over Antalya Photography: Mehmet Izdes

The wave-haunted ship Plymouth Sound

Isa Marcelli Solitude

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.” Hannah Arendt; (1906~1975) From her final interview with the French author Roger Errera on French national television (1973).

Fire in the sky this morning. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor looking out over the Somerset levels.

Morning all. Photographer Shirley Baker, Playing in puddles, Manchester, 1966.

Fall’s dormancy begins in preparation for Winters hibernation 📷🕊️ ….

Franz Kafka #goodmorning #souvenir #coffeehouse #prague

Morning folks! Have a great Wednesday 🌞

Touches of gold, harbor of words. Commit again to silent adventure. #5amwritersclub #booksky 🍂📝

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Sunset 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Sun

From the archive - Deep Cover Cold War Spies: How Russia’s Illegal Agents Penetrated the West

Autumn Gold. Photo taken this morning in Glastonbury.