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Wishing #JAWS Production Designer Joe Alves a very happy 90th birthday!! To celebrate, we have a new article about Joe's amazing career - link in the comments.

Happy 46th birthday to one of the greatest films of all time. The Empire Strikes Back turns 46 today.

here's how jimmy stewart can still win an oscar for its a wonderful life

@TheCinesthetic youtu.be/6WzSdfKS1w4?si…

I was winding down with a really great COLUMBO last night only to be hit with this reveal when it cut to credits

Smokey and the Bandit turns 49 today. If it weren’t for a space saga from a galaxy far, far away, it would’ve been '77’s biggest hit. Burt Reynolds starred, but Jackie Gleason flat-out steals the movie. Now, gimme a diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper, ’cause I’m in a goddamn hurry.

Elizabeth Montgomery and Agnes Moorehead from Bewitched. The casting for the roles for this show was perfection!

The American Battle Monuments Commission announced the launch of its new Flower Program. The program allows customers to send floral arrangements in honor of fallen service members buried, or named on the Walls of the Missing, at ABMC sites worldwide. This new customer-centric service offers both web-based and phone ordering for floral deliveries to commemorate service members honored at each of ABMC’s 26 overseas cemeteries and three U.S. memorials. As part of this service, ABMC staff will place floral arrangements and offer customers the option to receive a graveside photo showing the arrangement in place. To donate or place an order, please visit: abmcflowerprogram.com

A rare on set interview with the legendary Robert Shaw! #Jaws

Fellow BUSTER KEATON fans will enjoy Jim Jarmusch telling the story of how if it hadn’t been for JAMES MASON — born 117yrs ago today — buying Keaton’s old house in the 1980’s almost every film Buster made would’ve been lost to us forever. Incredible.

The day the IBM PC was released, I was at this Somerville, New Jersey Computerland. There was no way a poor kid like me could own one. But I knew if I could hang out enough I could learn it. After a few weeks Tom the manager said “Roemmele you want get paid for this?”. I said yes and went about setting up and training 100s of executives at Central New Jersey corporations for almost a decade. I worked my own hours and this lifted me out of poverty. I got my first Apple II and Macintosh here as well as my first LaserWriter and Apple Camera. I would go to the local florist and pick up red roses for the IBM PC display. They spent a lot, but IBM demanded real roses and “fined” any sales company that did not have one with the display. One day in my first year the owner came in and said “who is this kid?” Tom said, “Oh that is Brian, he sold more computers and software than all our outside sale combined and he is not in sales”. The owner came over and said shook my hand and said, “let me take you out for dinner, you and your girlfriend”. He was kind and generous to me and offered me key consulting gigs around the state. So seeing this commercial pop up in my VHS AI training knocked me over. Tom did not have to bet on me and even guess a stuttering geek could do this work, but he did. Nothing but gratitude for this start…

Who else is excited for this?!

1895 & 1896 L’ ARROSEUR ARROSÉ One of the ten café films, a comedic scenario called 'L’Arroseur arrosé' (The Sprinkler Sprinkled). It starred the Lumière gardener François Clerc, along with the Lumière lab boy apprentice Benoît Duval. They re-filmed it the next year. Take a look. 1895 on the left and 1896 on the right.

The mighty George Lucas is 82 years old today. He's the man who helped ignite my love of movies and taught me everything I know about mens fashion!

Every single day!

This is a book covering the film, Sunset Boulevard (1950), that starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden.

These photos of an engineer working on Bruce the shark from #JAWS is from the private collection of one of our followers who happened to be in Martha's Vineyard during production in 1974.

My dad took me to see Capricorn One when I was only 6, and three things burned into my brain: Jerry Goldsmith’s score, James Brolin eating a raw snake, and Elliot Gould in this manic, scramble to stop a car without brakes. Rewatched years later and appreciated the rest.

@ATRightMovies War and Peace by Sergey Bondarchuk. 7hrs 2ms Sensational. I also did the 8 Harry Potters back to back in one sitting last New Years Day, without interruption. What a day.

52 years ago today, 'Oscar' the Tiger shark arrived on Martha's Vineyard and was prepped to film the dock scene in #JAWS. Here is make-up artist Del Armstrong working to keep ‘Oscar’ looking fresh.