Before group chats, there was this: #MulhollandDrive

I have some concerns with the choice of picture for this story from BBC News

"Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone ..."

VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, 1961) A bawdy banquet for beleaguered beggars spirals out of control in this darkly disturbing drama from the Spanish / Mexican surrealist. It’s a wildly anarchic film, shot through with absurdist humour and themes touching on violation / sexual assault. (1/3) #FilmSky

Happy 86th Birthday to Julie Christie

Another undiscovered pleasure ground.

What movie defines the 80s for you? 📽️

Tomorrow! Premiere Tuesday 14th April, 3:55pm. JOHN HUSTON: ADVENTURES OF A FREE SOUL (2021) A documentary directed by #MarieBrunetDebaines exploring the life & career of the legendary filmmaker. #TPTVsubtitles

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

To be sure, one might have doubted, after the wayward and impatient existence she had led, whether she merited a haven of peace at last.

Before he was Skipper, with a young Marilyn Monroe

Gil Rigoulet, Notting Hill, England, 1978

happy anniversary of when almost nothing happened

Marilyn's New York Weekend at MoMI themarilynreport.com/2026/04/09/m... #MarilynMonroe

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Remembering Hywel Bennett, born this day in 1944.

'Now you ain't nothin' but an old tomcat Runnin' around my house ...'

#MarilynMonroe #BFI #NPG

Aran Islands, west of Ireland, 1890s/1900s, photo by Jane Shackleton, pioneering Irish photographer (1843-1909).

Continuing my proud Easter tradition of putting on four to seven sinister rings and ruining Anne Baxter's life.

Censored at last!

So near, yet so far away...

Humphrey Bogart in THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)

My March reading. Highlights: Hard Streets, This Dark Night #BookSky 📚

In March 1959, when SOME LIKE IT HOT opened in NYC, moviegoers had choices!

Arkwright's Mills, c.1795-6, painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-97 (Derby Museum and Art Gallery).

Happy 96th birthday actor and director John Astin. 🎂

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Blue Velvet was, for me, the best film of the Eighties -- a surreal, voyeuristic and subversive masterpiece of cinema that has lost none of its power to startle, and still ensnares the audience into complicity with its masochistic weirdness.

March 29, 1959 : "Some Like It Hot", directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, premieres at the Lowe’s Capital Theatre, NYC.

Monumental Cat, Rome (1959), by Elliott Erwitt

John Waters at No Kings!

Queen's Road, Hastings #BlueSkyArtShow #Background

A somehow slightly grubby Annunciation from Caravaggio, for Lady Day.