RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. I interviewed and was star struck by him twice. Once was on stage at the Museum of the Moving Image after a screening of the paranoid spy comedy AGE OF ASSASSINS, and once was for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the all-time great postwar actors. And, not for nothing, one of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful too.

The climactic sequence of 'The Sword of Doom' - with Nakadai as its whirling center - is one of the finest pieces of cinema I have ever seen. May he rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...

. . . Gielgud on Rains (cc @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social):

"Napoleon" sells out Film Forum in screenings a century in the making. https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/who-waits-in-line-for-a-100-year-old-5-hour-silent-movie-new-yorkers-of-course

Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, and Vincent Price at “Lux Radio Theatre” to reprise their roles in “Laura” in 1945 and reunited again nearly 40 years later, in 1983. ❤️

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

I adore THE UNINVITED. One of my favorite bits of trivia about it was that it received a lot of critical praise for not revealing the ghost. The reason was because they didn't have the budget to do any special effects to actually show the ghost.

This one was invented by a writer

Happy birthday to the foolishly overlooked Joel McCrea who put “dishy” in the dictionary and starred in two of the very finest romantic comedies: The Palm Beach Story in which he loves Claudette Colbert while fending off Mary Astor, and The More The Merrier where he (rightly) adores Jean Arthur.

Jeremy Brett, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1933, in Berkswell, England

You are caught by a glance, but only for a moment. Girl with a pearl earring, c. 1665, by Johannes Vermeer of Delft. Born on this day in 1632.

May she rest in peace.

This is a wonderful thread.

Audrey Hepburn in MY FAIR LADY (1964) costumes by Cecil Beaton.

Good morning #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

Today is Angela Lansbury’s 100th birthday. 📸 Yousuf Karsh (1946)

Today is P. G. Wodehouse’s birthday. “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

Diane Keaton (1946–2025)

RIP

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

One of the finest scenes in one of the BBC's greatest dramas.

I, Claudius - Poison Is Queen (11th October 1976). Augustus' death scene is an extraordinary television moment.

"I shall never forget the weekend Laura died” Otto Preminger’s LAURA, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews was released in NYC, New York #OnThisDay in 1944. With Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson.

Happy Birthday Brian Blessed, born this day in 1936.

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John Huston’s consequential crime picture and directorial debut, THE MALTESE FALCON, premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1941. A remake, “The stuff that dreams are made of" and an immediate success.

Today is Julie Andrews’s 90th birthday.

Happy Deborah Kerr's and Michael Powell's birthdays!

Paul Newman photographed by John R. Hamilton at Warner Bros Studios in Burbank, 1958

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Claudia Cardinale with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Cartouche (1962) 🖤

"“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a...remnant of a brief slice of time when musicians could afford to spend weeks slathering overdubs onto a single track...when bands raced to push the limits of song structure and recording technology" www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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The first episode of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” was broadcast on NBC on September 22, 1964. David Mccallum, Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll starred.

If you've not seen THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER or THE HOT ROCK, no time like the present

Robert Redford used his immense fame to shape the entire landscape of independent cinema. He was a true titan.

This is as good a time as any to say that I remain pissed off that Robert Redford wasn't nominated for ALL IS LOST (2013). What the hell, Oscar voters.

May he rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

John Cazale was born 90 years ago today.

Those aren’t reviews. Those are opinions, and they have their place and uses, but they do not substitute for deeply informed and engaging critical writing, which is a skill that takes time, practice, and experience to develop.

Good day to all those who celebrate Robert Mitchum's birthday! Here he is with the glorious Gloria Grahame in MACAO (1952), an oddball sorta-noir with a lot of snappy lines. Nick: Ah, the lady of the loaded dice. Margie: You're up early for a loser. Nick: Can't make a dishonest dollar lying in bed.