Happy Birthday Fred Armisen, Jeff Bridges, Jay-Z, Jelly Roll, Southside Johnny and Marisa Tomei, R.I.P. Hannah Ardent, Tommy Bolin, Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa

Happy Birthday Jean-Luc Godard, Daryl Hannah, Julianne Moore, Ozzy Osbourne and Amanda Seyfried, R.I.P. Madeline Kahn and Scott Weiland

Happy Birthday Action Bronson, Joe Henry, Robby Hoffman, Lucy Liu, George Saunders, Vilgot Sjöman, Britany Spears and Penelope Spheeris, R.I.P. Desi Arnaz, Aaron Copland and Marty Feldman

Happy Birthday Riz Ahmed, Larry Charles, John Densmore, Zoë Kravitz, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe, Sarah Silverman and Sarah Snook, R.I.P. Alvin Ailey and James Baldwin

Happy Birthday Woody Allen, Billy Idol, Terrence Malick, Ridley Scott and Ben Stiller, R.I.P. Perry Henzell, Evel Knievel, Ernst Lubitsch, Shane MacGowan, Christine McVie, Tiny Tim, Paul Walker and Oscar Wilde

R.I.P. Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)

Happy Birthday Don Cheadle, Joel Coen, Diane Ladd and Garry Shandling, R.I.P. Cary Grant, George Harrison, Mario Monicelli and Natalie Wood

Happy Birthday Alfonso Cuarón, Joe Dante, Berry Gordy, Ed Harris, Agnieszka Holland, Armando Iannucci, Randy Newman and Jon Stewart, R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Rubin and Richard Wright

Happy Birthday Kathryn Bigelow, Richard Cheese, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Bill Nye and Alex Wagner, R.I.P. Harvey Milk, Eugene O’Neill and Ken Russell

Happy Birthday DJ Khaled, John McVie, Charles M. Schulz, John Stirratt, Julian Temple and Tina Turner, R.I.P. Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Hujar and Stephen Sondheim

Happy Birthday Tim Armstrong, Mark Lanegan and Gregg Turkington, R.I.P. Jack Albertson, Irene Cara, Nick Drake, Jean Grémillon, Karel Reisz and Upton Sinclair

R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

Happy Birthday Coralie Fargeat, Shirley Henderson, Emir Kusturica, Renate Reinsve and Ulrich Seidl, R.I.P. Ricky Jay, Freddie Mercury and Diego Rivera

Happy Birthday Vincent Cassel, Miley Cyrus, Bruce Hornsby and Alison Mosshart, R.I.P. Roald Dahl, Klaus Kinski, Louis Malle, Anita O’Day and Nicolas Roeg

Film of the Day - Brazil (1984 1/2) (1985) - Happy Birthday Terry Gilliam

Happy Birthday Jamie Lee Curtis, Terry Gilliam, Scarlett Johansson, Karen O, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Van Zandt, Jesse Welles and Tina Weymouth, R.I.P. Anthony Burgess, Michael Hutchence, Tommy Keene, John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Jack London

Album of the Day - Queen "A Night at the Opera" - Released 50 years ago today (11/21/1975)

Film of the Day - Train Dreams (2025) Watch on Netflix

Happy Birthday Björk, Ronny Chieng, Andrew Davis, Goldie Hawn, Thomas Mars, Harold Ramis, Brian Ritchie and Ira Sachs, R.I.P. David Cassidy and Gahan Wilson

Happy Birthday Joe Biden, Don Delillo, Joel McHale, Mike D, Andrea Riseborough and Joe Walsh, R.I.P. Robert Altman, Pete La Roca, Leo Tolstoy and Chris Whitley

Happy Birthday Adam Driver, Jodie Foster, Allison Janney, Barry Jenkins, Charlie Kaufman, Meg Ryan and Michael Wilbon, R.I.P. Mike Nichols and Alan J. Pakula

Happy Birthday Margaret Atwood, Julia Ducournau, Alan Moore, Graham Parker, Chloë Sevigny andOwen Wilson, R.I.P. Gia Carangi, James Coburn, Sharon Jones and Malcolm Young

Happy Birthday Martin Scorsese. Today would be a great day for Marty Film Festival!

Happy Birthday Jeff Buckley, Kimya Dawson, Danny DeVito, Rachel McAdams, Lorne Michaels, Stephen Root, RuPaul, Martin Scorsese and Wang Bing, R.I.P. Ruth Brown, Ruth Gruber and Auguste Rodin

Happy Birthday Lisa Bonet, Pete Davidson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Diana Krall and Martha Plimpton, R.I.P. Clark Gable, William Goldman, Edie Sedgwick and Alan Watts

R.I.P. Todd Snider (1966-2025)

Happy Birthday Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Georgia O’Keeffe, François Ozon, Sam Waterson and Shailene Woodley, R.I.P. Mose Allison, Jean Gabin and Margaret Mead

Album of the Day - Sonic Youth "Washing Machine" (1995) - Sonic Youth officially broke up on this day 14 years ago.

Film of the Day - Nouvelle Vague (Stream it on Netflix)

Happy Birthday Vanessa Bayer, Brendan Benson, Charles III, Veronica Lake, Reverend Run, Chelsea Wolfe and Zhang Yimou, R.I.P. Tony Richardson and Sonic Youth

Film of the Day - Bring Her Back (2025) - Happy Birthday Danny and Michael Philippou

Happy Birthday Nikolai Fraiture, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Cass McCombs and Steve Zahn, R.I.P. Vittorio De Sica, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Leon Russell

Album of the Day - Neil Young "Tonight's the Night" (1975) - Happy Birthday Neil!

Happy Birthday Ryan Gosling, Kathleen Hanna, Anne Hathaway, Booker T. Jones, Céline Sciamma and Neil Young, R.I.P. William Holden, Stan Lee and Mitch Mitchell

Film of the Day - One Battle After Another - Happy Birthday Leo

Happy Birthday Jon Batiste, René Clair, Marshall Crenshaw, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mutt Lange, Demi Moore, Andy Partridge, Stanley Tucci and Kurt Vonnegut

Album of the Day - Patti Smith "Horses" (11/10/1975) - 50 years old today!

Happy Birthday Richard Burton, Terence Davies Walton Goggins, Tracy Morgan and Kiernan Shipka, R.I.P. Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Jack Palance, Elio Petri, Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Toussaint

Happy Birthday Fernando Meirelles, Ryan Murphy, Mark Speer and Corin Tucker, R.I.P. Art Carney, Gal Costa, Lou Donaldson, Stieg Larsson, Miriam Makeba and Dylan Thomas

Happy Birthday Laura Jane Grace, Rickie Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Bonnie Raitt, Gordon Ramsay, SZA and Alfre Woodard, R.I.P. Country Dick, Heavy D, Michael O’Donoghue, Norman Rockwell and Alex Trebek

Happy Birthday Lorde, Joni Mitchell, Chris Murphy, Lawrence O’Donnell and Toro y Moi, R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, Steve McQueen and Dean Stockwell

Happy Birthday Sally Field, Ethan Hawke, Mike Nichols, Adolphe Sax, June Squibb, Emma Stone, Bowen Yang and Edward Yang

Happy Birthday Bryan Adams, Ryan Adams, Art Garfunkel, Jonny Greenwood, Angelo Moore, Gram Parsons, Sam Rockwell and Tilda Swinton, R.I.P. Jill Clayburgh, Mimi Parker and Link Wray

Happy Birthday Chris Difford, Kathy Griffin, Ralph Macchio and Matthew McConaughey, R.I.P. Michael Crichton, Fred “Sonic” Smith and Jacques Tati

R.I.P. Diane Ladd (1935-2025)

Happy Birthday Adam Ant, Courtney Barnett, Bethany Cosentino, Scott Galloway, Hal Hartley and Monica Vitti, R.I.P. Jean Eustache and Quincy Jones

Happy Birthday Jon M. Chu, Burt Lancaster, K.D. Lang, Jordan Love and Luchino Visconti, R.I.P. Pier Paolo Pasolini, James Thurber and Theo Van Gogh

Happy Birthday Toni Collette, Tim Cook, Calvin Johnson, Anthony Kiedis, Lyle Lovett and Felix Van Groeningen, R.I.P. Adrienne Shelly

Happy Birthday John Candy, Adam Horovitz, Peter Jackson, Johnny Marr and Larry Mullen Jr., R.I.P. Marcel Carné, Sean Connery, Federico Fellini, Harry Houdini, MF Doom and River Phoenix

Happy Birthday Joe Berlinger, Louis Malle, Grace Slick and Henry Winkler, R.I.P. Juan Antonio Bardem, Julien Duvivier, Samuel Fuller and Jam Master Jay