Elaine May stands on a box next to a movie camera set atop a skyscraper

A very Happy Birthday to Elaine May - Directing A New Leaf in 1971

Good question. Similar in Toronto. My kids' public school is easily the most handsome building in my neighbourhood. Beautiful masonry, grand pillars etc. Built in 1914.

Let’s get reacquainted with bulls and schisms etc.

Nathalie Baye in a scene from Day for Night (1973, Truffaut). The line she speaks: “i’d drop a guy for a film. I’d never drop a film for a guy!”

RIP / Repose en paix, Nathalie Baye, here in Day For Night (1973, Truffaut)

The Wages of Fear (1953) poster art.
Premiered #OTD.

Poster for the WW2 movie Devil’s Brigade starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson

#botd the great William Holden. We all know his classic movies. Check out this obscure, fun, weirdly timely movie about a joint American-Canadian commando unit in WW2: The Devil’s Brigade (dir. Andrew McLaglen, screenplay William Roberts).

Remembering Peter Ustinov on his birthday #botd

Mike Myers as Goldmember (2002)

His blinking, insecure Laughton is one of the most amazing impersonations I've ever seen. It's more like a full physical transformation. And SO funny.

Here’s hoping for more of the films some day, but in the meantime, a reminder that the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O’Brian are a wildly entertaining read.

Interesting. I can see many of these ideas percolating in Ma Nuit Chez Maud as well

Lothaire Bluteau in "Jesus of Montreal" - BOTD

Delbert Mann’s MARTY premiered at the Sutton Theatre in New York City on April 11, 1955. Best Picture and Best Actor Oscar winner.

Obvious example but I still remember the effect Catcher in the Rye had on me in high school. Is Holden Caulfield a misunderstood poet? A judgmental prick? I don't know but I'm happy to spend a lifetime mulling it over.

hypnosis intro to Lars Von Trier's Europa YouTube video by Mario Fernández

Max von Sydow #botd #filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5D...

Bürgermeister meisterburger from Santa Claus is Comin to Town (1970)

This one?

36 years ago today...

#TwinPeaks premiered.

Nathalie Baye avec Isabelle Huppert | Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | 1980.

"Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [of us all], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."

Ingmar Bergman speaking about filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, born 4 April 1932.

Rewatched it last night for about the tenth time. Still finding new details, fresh evidence of its greatness.

Smiley in a contemplative mood

His greatest role?

Alec Guinness as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979

I can't think of another actor whose best performance is harder to choose.

Mike Morgan and Alec Guinness in a scene from The Horse's Mouth (1958, dir. Ronald Neame, screenplay, Alec Guinness)

Alec Guinness #botd -- a range so wide and seemingly effortless ... how many times did he disappear into a role and make it unforgettable?

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

I saw it at the Paradise a few months ago and I was BLOWN AWAY.

I'm laughing because your joke is scrutable (sorry).

Joan Micklin Silver deserves to be remembered alongside any of the greatest directors who came out of the 70s, all the more so because she had to make her way through a film world that was (even more than now) a boys’ club.

Georgian Bay
Doris McCarthy
1968

"I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement."
~ François Truffaut