EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13hRemembering James Dean February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955 "In front of the camera, he had an instinct that was nearly uncanny. I don't recall ever working with anyone who had such a gift." William Mellor, cinematographer 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h"I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong." Marion Cotillard #botd 021
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h"It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth." Laura Esquivel #botd 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 13h"Fred Zinnemann, in From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners, really brought out of me an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality..." Deborah Kerr #botd 021
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 14hA field of canola crops in Australia's Oxton Park near the New South Wales town of Harden, 350 km south-west of Sydney. 012
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Together with Oldenburg, Ruscha and Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore the vernacular culture of mass-produced consumer goods and popular urban life..." — Christopher Knight Roy Lichtenstein October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997 040
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Robert Benton #botd, with his co-writer David Newman, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. In 1979, he wrote and directed the film Kramer vs. Kramer, winning Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"When you read his credits, you say that had to be six, seven or eight filmmakers that made this amazing contribution to American cinema. But in fact it all came from one incredibly talented visionary." — Steven Spielberg Stanley Kramer #botd 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and so on, up to the true image of that mysterious reality that no one will ever see...” Michelangelo Antonioni #botd 161
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stage and screen actress Greer Garson #botd received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, winning for her performance in the title role of the wartime drama Mrs. Miniver, a critical and commercial success. 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kris Kristofferson, the award-winning country singer, songwriter — notably credited for Me and Bobby McGee, and Help Me Make It Through the Night, among others, and actor (A Star Is Born), died at home surrounded by his family this day in 2024. 120
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kazan's masterwork On the Waterfront, released in 1954, with its streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg and score by Leonard Bernstein, won 8 Oscars including best picture, director and actor. Elia Kazan September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in..." Remembering Miles Davis 🙏 May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The first time I met David Lynch, I remember being struck by his energy. I’d spent ten years auditioning, dealing with rejection over and over again, and he was beaming with light, which relaxed me right away..." Naomi Watts #botd Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn in Mulholland Drive 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Brigitte Bardot #botd on a Passerelle, Saint Tropez, 1958 📷 Willy Rizzo 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Marcello spends hours discussing his role until he thoroughly understands it, extracting the most extraordinary nuances. When he has it inside him we can get what we're really after: a look at the inner reality of life...” — Fellini Marcello Mastroianni #botd 001
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Peter Finch #botd achieved widespread critical success on both stage and screen, and was acclaimed for his role as Howard Beale in Network, an outstanding performance that earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The outstanding neo-noir mystery thriller written and directed by David Lynch. arrived in cinemas forty years ago, September 1986. 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A 1904 Rolls-Royce, believed to be the world's oldest surviving model, will return to British roads for the first time in decades at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 1 November. 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026With an acclaimed acting career on screen and stage, she appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. "I like the ephemeral thing about theatre. Every performance is like a ghost — it's there, and then it's gone..." Maggie Smith December 28, 1934 – September 27, 2024 041
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Suffrage is only one step towards full emancipation; the feminine spirit is like the air in a balloon, ever pressing higher..." Sylvia Pankhurst May 5, 1882 – September 27, 1960 042
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"One of the giants of the jazz piano, Bud Powell #botd changed the way that virtually all post-swing pianists play their instruments. He remains one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time..." — Scott Yanow 000
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Arthur Penn #botd was one of the major figures of US television, stage and film in the 1960s and 1970s when the three disciplines actively encouraged innovation and challenging subject matter. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is widely considered a landmark film. 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important." — Rachel Carson Published September 27, 1962 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John #botd won enduring fame for her role as Sandy in Grease. She later became a leading advocate for cancer research and established an independent charity sponsoring global research into plant medicine. 022
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rhapsody in Blue — George Gershwin #botd first performed his composition for solo piano and jazz band as part of Paul Whiteman’s 'An Experiment in Modern Music' concert at New York’s Aeolian Hall in 1924. An American classic was born... 273
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time Little Gidding, Four Quartets T. S. Eliot #botd 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Remembering Françoise Sagan June 21, 1935 – September 24, 2004 "I had a strong desire to write. Instead of leaving for Chile with a band of gangsters, one stays in Paris and writes a novel. That seemed to me the great adventure..." 052
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The photographers Linda admired were those who got off-the-cuff moments, like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jacques Henri Lartigue, where what they’re doing is a form of reportage that moved into art..." — Paul McCartney Linda McCartney #botd 032
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026American trumpeter Fats Navarro #botd was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation. Following a series of studio sessions with leading figures including Bud Powell,and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Somewhere inside me, there’ll always be the person I am tonight...” Tender Is the Night (1934) F. Scott Fitzgerald #botd 082
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Between Miles and me there was a great love affair. Throughout our lives, we were never lost to each other. Whenever he could, he would leave messages for me in the places I travelled in Europe..." Juliette Gréco 🙏 February 7, 1927 – September 23, 2020 071
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Staff at a Barcelona restaurant were delighted when a mysterious last-minute booking turned out to be for the former US president Barack Obama along with singer Bruce Springsteen #botd and film director Steven Spielberg... 052
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Spanish singer and songwriter Julio Iglesias #botd, whose magnetic stage presence and expressive music made him one of the best-selling artists of all time, has sold hundreds of millions of albums in more than a dozen languages. 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026She brought passion and intelligence to every performance in critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable directors of her era... Romy Schneider #botd 050
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I was born with music inside me. It was a necessity, like food or water..." Ray Charles #botd 040
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Despite a relatively brief career — he died aged forty, John Coltrane #botd is among the most important figures in jazz. No one questions his almost religious commitment to jazz, nor doubts his significance in the history of the music... 031
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The French mime artist and actor was most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years. Marcel Marceau March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007 011
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Acting is the process of two entities merging, the actor and the role..." The American actor had a celebrated career on both stage and screen, and became known for his portrayal of stern but complex authority figures. George C. Scott October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999 011
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Alain-Fournier, author of Le Grand Meaulnes — now considered a French classic, died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27. 020
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Since 1994, Andrea Bocelli #botd has recorded multiple solo studio albums of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 90 million records worldwide. 010
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Actress, writer, model, and singer Anna Karina #botd was an early collaborator with French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband, performing in several of his films. 052
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut..." Stephen King #botd 071
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hydra promised the life Leonard Cohen #botd had craved: spare rooms, the empty page, eros after dark. Here and there, he caught glimpses of a beautiful Norwegian woman, Marianne Ihlen. The legacy of their romance was a lasting sense of the creative power of love... 051
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Author of more than fifty novels including The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and of course The War of the Worlds, his work has been central to both British and American science fiction... H G Wells #botd 051
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is one of 1,500 original copies of the seminal fantasy novel that were published #otd in 1937. Of those, only a few hundred are believed to still remain... 030
EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Considered one of the most influential cinematographers, he created visual tours de force through his unique use of light and interiors, winning Academy Awards for 'Cries and Whispers', and 'Fanny and Alexander'. Sven Nykvist December 3, 1922 – September 20, 2006 011
