Stephen Stills' BD gives us the song of the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lem...

BOTD Ray Milland! MCCT5: 5)Circle of Danger (Tourneur) 4)Big Clock (Farrow) 3)Lost Weekend (Wilder) 2)Dial M for Murder (Hitch) 1)Ministry of Fear (Lang) [+ 2 excellent turns on Columbo] More: Collider: collider.com/ray-milland-... Film Lifestyle: filmlifestyle.com/best-ray-mil...

BOTD George Martin (100!!!) Stakes strongest claim to "5th Beatle" - no small thing More: From us on Get Back: midcenturycinema.org/2021/12/04/n... @hlinehan.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... @glennkenny.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016...

HBD Thelma Schoonmaker!!! Scorsese editor & key collaborator. Interviews/overviews: @lillcrawf.co.uk: lwlies.com/interviews/t... @haleighfoutch.bsky.social: collider.com/thelma-schoo... @filmfest.bsky.social: povmagazine.com/cutting-to-t...

Great read via Laurence Maslon re new to us Sammy Davis Jr landmark B'way production [D: Arthur Penn] incl "a moment which had never happened in the American cinema, television or on the stage”; "Davis — usually the coolest cat in the room — admitted he was petrified" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/t...

1/2/63: Fellini's 8 1/2 w/Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale More @jonwiener.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/cris... @szacharek.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... Rog: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea... @pamhutch.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ma...

HBD Todd Haynes!! MCCT5 5)Velvet Goldmine 4)Carol 3)Far From Heaven 2)I'm Not There (w/astonishing Cate Blanchett) 1)VU 🙏🙏 More: @jhoffman.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20... @marlownyc.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv... @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social: ew.com/movies/todd-...

Ethan Hawke w/ @marksalisbury.bsky.social: Re Philip Seymour Hoffman: "when we finally worked together, I realised how much he had learned from all these different parts" [I decided] "I’ve got to expand my envelope" "I started seeking out... things that pushed me” www.screendaily.com/features/eth...

Panahi/Kiarostami slate begins *tomorrow* @ifccenter.bsky.social: www.ifccenter.com/series/panah... Godfrey Cheshire overview for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/pan... Bonus - from us 10 Iranian Films: midcenturycinema.org/2025/07/09/n... + Look for us on Accident in Cineaste

BOTD Basil Dearden! MCCT5 5)Assassination Bureau 4)League of Gentlemen 3)Man who Haunted Himself 2)Victim 1)All Night Long More: @peutetre.bsky.social: criterioncast.com/column/a-jou... @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: www.cineaste.com/summer2011/b... Barrett/BFI: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

MCCT7 New Years Eve Movies: Boogie Nights (Anderson) Fireworks Wednesday (Farhadi) Godfather 2 (Coppola) The Inquisitor (Miller) Phantom Carriage (Sjöström) Radio Days (Allen) When Harry Sally Met Sally (Reiner)

Best of MCC 2025: 5)1975: midcenturycinema.org/2025/05/04/5... 4)Just an Accident: www.cineaste.com 3)Chinatown Podcast w/Ron Brownstein podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... 2)Night Moves feature: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... 1)Mohammad Rasoulof interview: www.bostonreview.net/articles/wal...

HBD Anthony Hopkins!! MCCT5: 5)Nixon 4)2 Popes 3)Silence of Lambs 2)Before Devil Knows 1)Remains of Day More: @matt-thrift.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthon... @marksalisbury.bsky.social: www.screendaily.com/features/i-u... @michaelschulman.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

12/31/44 Ministry of Fear W: Fritz Lang/N: Graham Greene w/Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds + Dan Duryea, Alan Napier More: @glennkenny.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @davekehr.bsky.social: chicagoreader.com/film-tv/mini... @zeroforconduct.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

MCCT7 New Years Eve Movies: Boogie Nights (Anderson) Fireworks Wednesday (Farhadi) Godfather 2 (Coppola) The Inquisitor (Miller) Phantom Carriage (Sjöström) Radio Days (Allen) When Harry Sally Met Sally (Reiner)

Best of MCC 2025: 5)1975: midcenturycinema.org/2025/05/04/5... 4)Just an Accident: www.cineaste.com 3)Chinatown Podcast w/Ron Brownstein podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... 2)Night Moves feature: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... 1)Mohammad Rasoulof interview: www.bostonreview.net/articles/wal...

12/30/59: Our Man in Havana D [BOTD] Carol Reed/W Graham Greene/DP Oswald Morris w/Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara + Ives/Kovacs/Coward/ Richardson On location in the moment More @vicpratt.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/tim... @deepfocusreview.bsky.social: www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/...

HBD Patti Smith!!! Picking up Bob's Nobel: youtu.be/941PHEJHCwU More @janetmaslin.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/b... @jaygabler.com: www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021... w/David Remnick: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... @willhermes.bsky.social: newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/p/patti-smit...

BOTD Carol Reed!!! MCCT5 5)Man in Havana 4)Night Train/Munich 3)Man Between 2)Odd Man Out 1)3rd Man From Us MB: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... OMO: midcenturycinema.org/2015/04/19/n... More @lrb.co.uk: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2... @jessicakiang.bsky.social: theplaylist.net/6-essential-...

BOTD Mary Tyler Moore!!! Our T10 MTM show: midcenturycinema.org/node/203 In Ordinary People - @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... More @nellminow.bsky.social: rogerebert.com/reviews/being-mary-tyler-moore-movie-review-2023 Yohana Desta: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

12/29/95: Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking w/Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky More: @janetmaslin.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/1995/12/29/m... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dead...

BOTD Jon Voight. Impressive 10 yr run 1969-1978 incl Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger) Catch-22 (Nichols) Revolutionary (Williams) Deliverance (Boorman) Odessa File (Neame) Coming Home (Ashby) Really fine feature from 1979 gives a sense of what once was, alas: www.nytimes.com/1979/04/29/a...

12/29/40: Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich (US) w/Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid More: Monte Hellman: www.criterion.com/current/post... @gemko.bsky.social: letterboxd.com/gemko/film/n... Philip Kemp: www.criterion.com/current/post...

BOTD Mary Tyler Moore!!! Our T10 MTM show: midcenturycinema.org/node/203 In Ordinary People - @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... More @nellminow.bsky.social: rogerebert.com/reviews/being-mary-tyler-moore-movie-review-2023 Yohana Desta: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

12/28/68: Jules Dassin's Up Tight w/Ruby Dee (also co-W), St Jacques, Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne M: Booker T FBI w/informants on the set Rosenbaum: "a genuine revelation" More @carolineavenue.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/upt... @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

That '70s Movie Podcast Returns w/Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, w/outstanding Culp & Wood & Gould & Cannon podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Culp is the coolest cat - but note that it's Cannon's character that evolves, & forces the confrontation Pic: B, C & T process A's challenge ⬇️

Outstanding Panahi & Kiarostami slate coming to @ifccenter.bsky.social in January: www.ifccenter.com/series/panah...

12/28/68: Jules Dassin's Up Tight w/Ruby Dee (also co-W), St Jacques, Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne M: Booker T FBI w/informants on the set Rosenbaum: "a genuine revelation" More @carolineavenue.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/upt... @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

12/27/67: Bob w/John Wesley Harding More Ralph Gleason (2/68): www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... @mgallucci.bsky.social: ultimateclassicrock.com/bob-dylan-jo... w/Joan B on St. Augustine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWc2... Sharp take via @seanfennessey.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2017/11/27/m...

BOTD Gérard Depardieu MCCT5 5)Welcome to NY (Ferrara) 4)Vincent, François, Paul... (Sautet) 3)American Uncle (Resnais) 2)Bellamy (Chabrol) 1)Police (Pialat) +D Quartier Latin More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @wendyide.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ju...

BOTD Michel Piccoli!! MCCT5: 5)101 Nights (Varda) 4)Le Doulos (Melville) 3)Contempt (Godard) 2)Max & The Junkmen (Suatet) 1)Belle Noiseuse (Rivette) Not. Too. Shabby. More Us: midcenturycinema.org/2020/05/20/n... Caspar Salmon: mubi.com/en/notebook/... Craig Williams: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/michel...

BOTD Sydney Greenstreet!!! 10 films 1941-44 incl Mask of Dimitrios, Conspirators (Negulesco) Passage to Marseille, Casablanca (Curtiz) Across Pacific, Maltese Falcon (Huston) More @cladriteradio.bsky.social: cladriteradio.com/remembering-... @keithroysdon.bsky.social: crimereads.com/peter-lorre-...

BOTD Marlene Dietrich!! MCCT5: 5)Stage Fright (Hitch) 4)Foreign Affair (Wilder) 3)Blue Angel (J vS) 2)Witness/Prosecution (Wilder) 1)Touch of Evil (Welles) [NB: Heroic antifascist] More: @tanjilrashid.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/the-... @suchmayer.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/my-...

12/26: Banner Day in Bergman-land!!! Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ebert: rogerebert.com/reviews/grea... Wild Strawberries (1957) @mymackie.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/archives/la-... The Magician (1958) Olivier Assayas: www.criterion.com/current/post...

BOTD Richard Widmark!! MCCT5: 5)Road House (Negulesco) 4)Madigan (Siegel) 3)Panic in the Streets (Kazan) 2)Pickup/South Street (Fuller) 1)Night/The City (Dassin) More: Kehr: nytimes.com/2008/03/26/a... w/Ebert in '68: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/i... Kent Jones: www.filmcomment.com/article/hidd...

BOTD Elisha Cook Jr!! MCCT5: 5)Stranger on 3rd Floor (Ingster) 4)Maltese Falcon (Huston) 3)The Killing (Kubrick) 2)Phantom Lady (Siodmak - drumming as sex: youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...) 1)Big Sleep (Hawks - key sequence) More via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social: www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/31/1...

12/26/73: The Exorcist D William Friedkin/DP Owen Roizman w/Burstyn, von Sydow, Blair, Cobb More: @manohladargis.bsky.social / @jasonzinoman.bsky.social / Piepenburg: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Friedkin: thequietus.com/culture/film... James Baldwin: scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/the-e...

That '70s Movie Podcast Returns w/Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, w/outstanding Culp & Wood & Gould & Cannon podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Culp is the coolest cat - but note that it's Cannon's character that evolves, & forces the confrontation Pic: B, C & T process A's challenge ⬇️

12/26: Banner Day in Bergman-land!!! Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ebert: rogerebert.com/reviews/grea... Wild Strawberries (1957) @mymackie.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/archives/la-... The Magician (1958) Olivier Assayas: www.criterion.com/current/post...

MCCT10 Xmas Movies: 10)All that Heaven Allows (Sirk) 9)Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Eustache) 8)Mr Arkadin (Welles) 7)Metropolitan (Stillman) 6)Blast of Silence (Baron) 5)Carol (Haynes) 4)My Night at Maud's (Rohmer) 3)Fanny & Alexander (Bergman) 2)Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick) 1)Christmas Tale (Desplechin)

BOTD Humphrey Bogart!!!! 5)Key Largo 4a/4b)Have/Have Not; Big Sleep 3)Casablanca 2)Lonely Place 1)Maltese Falcon More: @jonathancoe.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/film... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/humphr... @sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=196597

12/25/75: Robert Aldrich's Hustle w/Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Eddie Albert, Eileen Brennan, Ben Johnson ++ @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: "Ruthlessly downbeat in the way major studio pictures were only allowed to be back in the ’70s": medium.com/boston-reel/...

HBD Sissy Spacek!! MCCT5 #70s: 5)Carrie 4)Ginger in the Morning 3)Prime Cut 2)Badlands 1)3 Women NB: SNL S2/E15 👍👍 More: @davidlfear.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv... @joereid.bsky.social: decider.com/2019/01/16/s... w/Ethan Hawke: www.interviewmagazine.com/film/sissy-s...

BOTD Rod Serling!!! Twilight Zone, + W: Requiem for a Heavyweight, 7 Days in May, Planet of the Apes Bravely right on the big issues: rodserling.com/rod-serling-... Would have been mortified by the current insane clown posse More via @joshuahweiss.bsky.social: www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ro...

12/25/77: John Cassavetes' Opening Night w/Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Blondell, Stewart Brilliant, Essential More: @redroomrantings.bsky.social: vaguevisages.com/2016/05/12/o... @thegaychingy.bsky.social: melmagazine.com/en-us/story/... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

MCCT10 Xmas Movies: 10)All that Heaven Allows (Sirk) 9)Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Eustache) 8)Mr Arkadin (Welles) 7)Metropolitan (Stillman) 6)Blast of Silence (Baron) 5)Carol (Haynes) 4)My Night at Maud's (Rohmer) 3)Fanny & Alexander (Bergman) 2)Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick) 1)Christmas Tale (Desplechin)

BOTD Humphrey Bogart!!!! 5)Key Largo 4a/4b)Have/Have Not; Big Sleep 3)Casablanca 2)Lonely Place 1)Maltese Falcon More: @jonathancoe.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/film... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/humphr... @sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=196597

That '70s Movie Podcast Returns, as we discuss Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, w/outstanding Culp & Wood & Gould & Cannon A movie so entertaining it's easy to miss how good it is - it achieves Cassavetes-levels of intensity: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... My favorite shot ⬇️

12/24/47: Welles' spectacular The Lady From Shanghai w/OW, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane From Us, via New Oxford Handbook of Am Film Hist: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More: @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo... @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lad...

BOTD Michael Curtiz!! MCCT5 5)Young Man w/Horn 4)Breaking Point 3)Mildred Pierce 2)Passage/Marseille 1)Casablanca @thetallcinephile.bsky.social bio: www.kentuckypress.com/978081317391... More Vacca: www.indiewire.com/news/general... @sensesofcinema.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/great-d...