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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 4h

László Krasznahorkai has won
the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

Remembering Andrzej Wajda
March 6, 1926 – October 9, 2016

"When a film is created, it is created in a language which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

The Belgian singer and songwriter composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in Belgium and France initially, and later throughout the world...

Jacques Brel
April 8, 1929 – October 9, 1978

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth..."

Guillermo del Toro #botd

The Shape of Water | Winner of four Oscars — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

“I am just some guy who did whatever.
Always see me as me."

John Lennon #botd

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

Don McCullin #botd — One of the great postwar documentary photographers, an energetic and compassionate chronicler of our world.

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

"Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. I believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave..."

Yusef Lateef #botd

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

Mon Oncle, the second Monsieur Hulot movie and the first colour film directed by Jacques Tati #botd, a satire on mechanized living and the consumer society, won him the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

"A masterpiece..." — David Lynch

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 7h

Cinematographer Freddie Young #botd worked on more than 130 films. He was best known for his collaborations with David Lean. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times - for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter, all directed by Lean.

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

Born in Spain, she fled Europe to Mexico in 1941, where she developed her practice of juxtaposing surrealist techniques with imagery from chivalric romance, geographic explorations, feminist critique, mysticism, and tarot...

Remedios Varo
December 16, 1908 – October 8, 1963

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

"The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too..."

Anne-Marie Duff #botd

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

“I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing, and has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive...”

Matt Damon #botd

With director Paul Greengrass filming The Bourne Ultimatum

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

"I loved the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien."
Sigourney Weaver #botd

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

Claude Jade #botd had a distinguished career on stage and screen, and above all will be remembered for the three films she made with François Truffaut as Christine in Baisers volés, Domicile conjugal, and L'amour en fuite.

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

Cats opened on Broadway in October 1982 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The London production ran for 21 years, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 1d

Audrey Hepburn in the south of France
filming Two for the Road
📷 Terry O’Neill

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn in Sussex...

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

“Whether approaching a baroque concerto, a modern classic, a jazz standard or a large-scale project, Alison is exceptional not just for her technique and musicianship, but for her integrity, creativity and inspiring sense of purpose...” — Alain Lanceron

Alison Balsom #botd

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

"My teacher Leonard Rose was such a great cellist. I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries..."

Yo-Yo Ma #botd

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

"We live in a moment of history when change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing..."

R D Laing #botd

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d

More than 200 hikers are stranded by a blizzard on the Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest...

EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d

Featuring an unforgettable Bette Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business...

Bette Davis
April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d

He worked with many of the major singers of his day, but it was his recordings with Frank Sinatra, particularly on the revered Capitol albums, that cemented his legacy...

Nelson Riddle
June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d

Britt Ekland #botd and Patrick Lichfield
📷 Terry O'Neill

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 3d

Oh What a Lovely War, developed and directed by Joan Littlewood #botd with the Theatre Workshop, opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in March 1963. The radical political musical is one of the landmarks of post-war British theatre.

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