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#andreamartin,#catherinohara PSA FOR PMS Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara produced this short film for David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival in 1985.

#bettermidler Angst on a Shoestring aka WHY BOTHER? Bette Midler produced this short film for David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival in 1985. The night of taping the show was her 40th birthday. The program aired over Thanksgiving weekend in Saturday Night Live's time slot.

@playon80 One of those instances where the singer and the song mesh so perfectly.

#nataliecole I've got love on my mind...

#nataliecole One of the BEST concerts I've ever seen. This woman was pure professional from start to finish. Her voice was never better, she looked healthy & fit & glamorous and the songs she sang are timeless classic. Do yourself a favor & watch😀 youtube.com/watch?v=ilEKWO…

@DannyDrinksWine Pauline Kael is a fine critic but her conception of religious ecstasy is colored by her sexuality.Bernini's statue The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa shows a religious transfiguration where the ecstasy is divine not erotic. Kael tends 2 lead w/her erotic nature.Look at her book titles.

"Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' (1928) is one of the greatest of all movies. (...) No other film has so subtly linked eroticism with religious persecution. Falconetti’s Joan may be the finest performance ever recorded on film." --- Pauline Kael

Fritz Lang on how he worked with his actors: "You have to work with an actor as you would work with yourself. You have to explain to him how you see the character that he has to put on the screen. You cannot use him. Maybe he’s right, and you have to think it over. Maybe he is wrong. There’s something which you should get from an actor, something which is under his skin, something which he himself maybe doesn’t know exactly. I never did tell an actor how to play a role. I don’t want to have twenty-five little Fritz Langs running around." (Fritz Lang, AFI, 1973) Clip from: Clash by Night (1952) Director: Fritz Lang

Remembering the legendary English filmmaker, David Lean, on his 118th birthday! David Lean on the timelessness of "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) & the reaction it got from the audience when the restored version was released in 1989: "Everyone worried about re-releasing ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’ (1962) They said the audiences have changed. They talk and shout at the screen; they’re impatient; they wouldn’t sit still for it. Not at all. You could hear a pin drop. London, New York, Washington, Los Angeles. Everywhere. It was a subtle piece of work, depicting Lawrence and his character. It’s less than 1% of the film in terms of footage, but it’s the cumulative effect of nuances, and if you dig out too many you’ve lost a whole hunk of his character. I think audiences had almost forgotten the power of pictures. They’ve gotten smaller and smaller. And suddenly you see this old film, wonderfully photographed; tremendous detail; you almost feel you could take a hair off the actor’s collar. There’s a mesmeric effect from the picture on the screen." ("The Phenomenal Persistence of David Lean : At 81, the director fields several honors and awaits the start of his next project--Conrad’s ‘Nostromo’", Charles Champlin, LA Times, 1989)

Remembering James Caan on his 86th birthday!

Remembering the great American actor, Sterling Hayden, on his 110th birthday! In André De Toth's 'Crime Wave' (1953), Sterling Hayden's character- Sims has the habit of chewing on toothpicks and at one point explains that he does this because although he loves cigarettes, his doctor says he can't have them. In real life, Sterling Hayden, actually had a pack-a-day smoking habit, but André De Toth wouldn't allow him to smoke on screen in order to get an extra level grumpiness and hostility from Hayden's performance.

On this day, 57 years ago, Burt Kennedy's "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969) was released in the USA. James Garner was initially warned that comedy westerns won't make any money, but he went ahead and made "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969) with a shoestring budget of $750,000. It was considered a "bomb" as it didn't do much business in the first week of its release. United Artists wanted to shelve it. But James Garner said to them, “You put up $10,000 and l will put up $10,000, and we'll run it in one theater.” The result was impressive. it ran on Wilshire Boulevard for one month. The movie gained audience through "word of mouth" within the end of the week. Then they re-released it and the movie did well everywhere. It was the 20th most popular movie in the US box office in 1969.

@DannyDrinksWine Nolan's MALCK choice apperas 2b very controversial & I must say I agree. I think a fair case can B made 4 his 1st 2 films, Badlands & Days of Heaven. Blending his poetic approach w/strong visuals but still retaining a strong spine of a story...the human connection.

Christopher Nolan’s 30 favourite films of all time: 1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) 2) 12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet) 3) Alien (1979, Scott) 4) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Milestone) 5) Bad Timing (1980, Roeg) 6) The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo) 7) Blade Runner (1982, Scott) 8) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978, Spielberg) 9) First Man (2018, Chazelle) 10) For All Mankind (1989, Reinert) 11) Foreign Correspondent (1940, Hitchcock) 12) Greed (1924, Stroheim) 13) The Hit (1984, Frears) 14) Koyaanisqatsi (1983, Reggio) 15) Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean) 16) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Oshima) 17) Metropolis (1927, Lang) 18) Mr. Arkadin – (1955, Welles) 19) The Right Stuff (1983, Kaufman) 20) Saving Private Ryan (1988, Spielberg) 21) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977,Gilbert) 22) Ryan’s Daughter (1970, Lean) 23) Star Wars (1977, Lucas) 24) Street of Crocodiles (1986, The Brothers Quay) 25) Sunrise (1927, Murnau) 26) Superman: The Movie (1978, Donner) 27) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Lang) 28) The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1988) 29) Topkapi (1964, Dassin) 30) The Tree of Life (2011, Malick) ("Christopher Nolan’s 30 favourite movies of all time", Jack Whatley, Far out Magazine, 2024)

@DannyDrinksWine I provided a couple of replies back to this post & wondered if I weren't being a tad vehement but after reading some of these OTHER replies! YIKES. Guess folk take their TOP FILMS OF ALL TIME list pretty darn seriously! LOL

@DannyDrinksWine Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent IS a Hitch film I love but NOT of all time or of Hitch' TOP 5. I love 2001, consider it a masterpiece, I GUESS that would make my list! LOL. But Saving Private Ryan? HELL NO! Superman? Fave of ALL TIME? I mean really! But 2 each his own.

@DannyDrinksWine Well I GUESS he's gotta a "couple" of lighter movies in there! LOL. Pretty solemn stuff mostly though. Obviously many of these movies are "important" movies. It's tough cuz my TRUE favorite movies R the ones I watch over & over again. So they don't tend 2B grim. To each his own.

1975 Retro Commercial: — New Glade Solid Air Freshener

Final Official Public Appearance of Diana, Princess of Wales ✨ 3 June 1997, at the Royal Albert Hall Watching Swan Lake, dressed in elegance and grace The world didn’t know… it was the last time she stood before them ❤️ The night the world saw her one last time.. !

Opening title sequence for Midnight Cowboy (1969) Everybody's Talkin' sung by Harry Nilsson

#sophialoren,#bettedmidler,#mamboitaliano MAMA MIA!

This is what Harlem looked like in the 1930s Real footage from nearly 100 years ago