#NowWatching Fargo - Season 2 (Program Creator: Noah Hawley, 2014)

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1405 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday

The photo features actress Tippi Hedren and actress Veronica Cartwright.

#BOTD 1949 Happy Birthday to...
Veronica Cartwright: English actress based in Los Angeles, California. She appeared in science fiction and horror films, and has three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1404 Fingers crossed for Monday.

A colourful collage with a young brown haired woman with a bouffant and another smaller blonde woman drawn over in Andy Warhol screening style, with advertising slogans and a can of Libby’s creamed rice, these are against old floral wallpaper, surrounded by drawings of a starscape, leopard print and shapes that look like internal organs

Chore of Enchantment
Collage made from Wills Cigarettes & PG Tips collector’s cards, 1960s wallpaper, Vogue & Parade & Women’s Realm magazines, watercolour, acrylic marker & felt tip

#NowWatching The Perfume of the Lady in Black (D:Francesco Barilli, 1974)
"Filled with vibrant production design and vivid hues of blue, pink, and purple that perfectly outline the spectacular hallucinatory descent into madness atmos, unravels deliberately... culminating in a banger of an ending..."

#BOTD 1891
Françoise Rosay: French opera singer, diseuse,and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years. She became a legendary figure in French cinema appearing in over 100 movies in her career. Known for La Kermesse héroïque (1935), Nobody's Children (1951) and The Halfway House (1944).

#NowWatching The Love of Jeanne Ney (D:Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1927)
"...an epic drama which spans two countries and embodies the turbulence and uncertainties of the time. Playing with a number of cinematic styles...a work which consistently defies expectations and creates truly fascinating sequences."

The Temperature of Us #312 YouTube video by Cathy Sample 3

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Have a fantastic time Catherine! It's over 40 years since I've been to Florence and can't remember any trees. I do remember it being very beautiful though.

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1403 One of the oaks on Tunbridge Wells Common getting ready for spring.

Thanks Mike, that's much appreciated.

#NowWatching Plot of Fear (D: Paolo Cavara,1976)
"This one is so convoluted it will make your head spin - a tale involving a sex crazed import/export group, murder, tigers, prostitutes, sleazy cartoons.....and there's even time for a diamond smuggling ring."

I couldn't reply on my phone, getting "Forbidden" message, just seeing if it's the same on my laptop.

#BOTD 1863
Mary Bessie Brough: English actress in theatre, silent films and early talkies.
Brough appeared in more than 66 movies, where she was best known for her comic characters often seen as fearsome cockney women and sometimes aristocratic occasionally sympathetic and sometimes monstrous.

#WyrdWednesday #LewisCarroll From Carroll's collection of poems 'Phantasmagoria' 1919 featuring the illustrations of A.B Frost.

COMING NEXT WEEK!!

#FilmNoir watch parties resume on Wed, April 22, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, with THE TURNING POINT (1952), as a formidable trio take on – and maybe take down – the mob. @tommykrasker.bsky.social will be hosting. Join us.

Link: archive.org/details/the-...

Use hashtag #TheNoirCollective

I've been waiting a week for my copy in the post.

#BOTD 1903
Hugh Ernest Leo Williams (John Williams): English stage, film and television actor. Remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, and Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954) He appeared in two other Hitchcock films: The Paradine Case (1947) and To Catch a Thief (1955).

#BOTD 1888
Florence Bates: American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940).

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1402

#BOTD 1927
Dany Robin: French actress of the 1950s and '60s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s.
She would last appear on film in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Topaz (1969), an American production.

#BOTD 1907
Phyllis Esther Kohnstamm, known as Phyllis Konstam: English film Actress. Appeared in 12 films between 1928 and 1964, including four directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Blackmail, The Skin Game, Murder! and The Foreign Correspondent)

I think we're at peak bluebell now. Now waiting to hear my fitst cuckoo.

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1401 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday

#NowWatching Novocaine (D:Dan Berk,2025)
"...this is an amped-up, cartoonish blitzkrieg of ultraviolence and a bit of an endurance test if deep-fried fingers and snapped bones give you the ick.This gory action comedy has just one joke, and like poor battered Nathan it starts to run out of juice."

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1400 Fingers crossed for Monday.

Imogen Cunningham, born 12 April 1883.

#NowWatching The Happiest Days of Your Life (Directed by Frank Launder, 1950)

#BOTD 1930
Patricia Dainton: British actress who appeared in a number of films and television roles between 1947 and 1961. Leads in B-grade noirish crime features include Tread Softly (1952), Operation Diplomat (1953), No Road Back (1957), Witness in the Dark (1959) and The Third Alibi (1961).