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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould.

George Segal and Elliott Gould in a scene from Robert Altman’s California Split (1974)

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky #musicsky Wanting to stop Axis powers from jamming Allied torpedo guidance systems in 1942, actor Hedy Lamarr and film music composer George Antheil patented frequency hopping #OTD — leading to current day wireless technology.

Portrait photograph of George Antheil and portrait photograph of Hedy Lamar
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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Derrick Chua @derrick-chua.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Terrific start to 2026 Toronto Fringe with four shows yesterday including one that I really loved - CAMP by Ben Kopp & Margot Greve. It’s like a Family Channel Summer Camp Musical, with a talented cast of actual teens. Sold out yesterday so book tix asap! fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/...

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On this day in 1981, Terry Fox died. His funeral was broadcast nationwide and memorial services were held in hundreds of communities. Flags across the country were lowered to half-mast. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/QqZiNNK

Black-and-white front page of The Globe and Mail, dated Monday, June 29, 1981. The main headline reads Terry Fox’s courage hailed as inspiration to the nation. A large photo at left shows two people at a press conference, and a large portrait at right shows Terry Fox wearing his Order of Canada medal. Smaller columns and headlines fill the lower half of the page.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

One of the best films by one of the best directors, Howard Hawks #BOTD. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, dir. Hawks, written by Hawks and Jules Furthman). It has everything: adventure, romance, comedy, and a heart wrenching, haunting look at death.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Swimmer is another great John Cheever story www.newyorker.com/magazine/196... And the movie adaptation by Frank & Eleanor Perry (1968) is suitably strange and haunting

Janice Rule and Burt Lancaster talking poolside in swimsuits in a scene from The Swimmer (1968)

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Katrin Cartlidge in "Naked" - BOTD

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Jean-Luc Godard meets Lemmy Caution in Alphaville - French premiere this day in 1965, Italian poster, art by Averardo Ciriello

Anna Karina clutches Eddie Constantine's shoulder as he trains his gun on us, in the background colorful silhouettes of dancing figures

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy Birthday Lars von Trier #botd #filmsky “You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa.”

A scene from Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)

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Vicenç @metforall.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Bon dia!! #BOTD Bertrand Tavernier.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A very Happy Birthday to Elaine May - Directing A New Leaf in 1971

Elaine May stands on a box next to a movie camera set atop a skyscraper

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

RIP / Repose en paix, Nathalie Baye, here in Day For Night (1973, Truffaut)

Nathalie Baye in a scene from Day for Night (1973, Truffaut). The line she speaks: “i’d drop a guy for a film. I’d never drop a film for a guy!”

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Tico Romao 🍁 @tico-romao.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Wages of Fear (1953) poster art. Premiered #OTD.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#botd the great William Holden. We all know his classic movies. Check out this obscure, fun, weirdly timely movie about a joint American-Canadian commando unit in WW2: The Devil’s Brigade (dir. Andrew McLaglen, screenplay William Roberts).

Poster for the WW2 movie Devil’s Brigade starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Remembering Peter Ustinov on his birthday #botd

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Lothaire Bluteau in "Jesus of Montreal" - BOTD

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Delbert Mann’s MARTY premiered at the Sutton Theatre in New York City on April 11, 1955. Best Picture and Best Actor Oscar winner.

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

36 years ago today... #TwinPeaks premiered.

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Kazuyoshi Kawasaki @kawasaki1972.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Nathalie Baye avec Isabelle Huppert | Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | 1980.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [of us all], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream." Ingmar Bergman speaking about filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, born 4 April 1932.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

His greatest role? Alec Guinness as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Alec Guinness #botd -- a range so wide and seemingly effortless ... how many times did he disappear into a role and make it unforgettable?

Mike Morgan and Alec Guinness in a scene from The Horse's Mouth (1958, dir. Ronald Neame, screenplay, Alec Guinness)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup (1933)

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Georgian Bay Doris McCarthy 1968

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement." ~ François Truffaut

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thinking of the great David Lean on his birthday. He’s a conundrum. I love his movies, unreservedly. Yet some filmmakers I admire, like Truffaut, had no time for him, finding the films fusty and marked by a kind of God’s-eye view. He’s not entirely wrong. But I love Lean anyway. #botd #filmsky

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Joan Crawford's best films feel like beautiful fever dreams. #botd

Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth in a scene from Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)

Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in a scene from Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thinking of Akira Kurosawa today #botd

A man stands on a red dirt road cut through golden fields of wheat in a scene from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Vive les films de Rohmer!

Poster for ma nuit chez maud a film by Eric Rohmer

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

HBD Spike Lee!!! MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing More: @amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil... @roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen... Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

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Where to begin with Spike Lee

A beginner’s path through the films of pioneer and provocateur Spike Lee.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Happy Birthday Michael Redgrave, here in The Browning Version (1951, dir. Anthony Asquith, written by Terrence Rattigan) #botd #filmsky Sometimes a small act of kindness can go a long way.

A boy watches as his teacher opens a book he's just given him. Brian Smith and Michael Redgrave in a scene from The Browning Version(1951, Asquith)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Celebrity dinner party. You can invite two people.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thrilled that OBAA and Sinners were both well recognized at the Oscars. But this was the movie of the year for me, full of life, ideas, and humanity: The Secret Agent, written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

A bearded man stands behind an older woman in a doorway, they both have a slight smile on their faces - Armando (Wagner Moura) and Dona Sebastiana (Tania Maria) in a scene from The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho)

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16/03/2026

the boys!

Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson posing together with their Oscars

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TAG Revista @tagrevista.com · 13/03/2026

A grande estrela! Tânia Maria, atriz de 'O Agente Secreto', estampa a capa do volume 23 da Elle Brasil, dedicada ao cinema. 📸: Wallace Domingues

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Every film Bertrand Tavernier and Philippe Noiret made together is astounding. One of cinema's great director-actor partnerships, up there with Scorsese/De Niro and Bergman/Ullman. #filmsky

a poster for the movie l'Horloger de St Paul (Bertrand Tavernier) with the image of the face of a clock superimposed over Philippe Noiret

A poster for the film Que La Fete Commence (Bertrand Tavernier) featuring Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, and Jean-Pierre Marielle all in 18th century dress

Poster for the film La Vie et Rien D'autre (Bertrand Tavernier) a portrait of the muddy face of Philippe Noiret in character as a WWI officer

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Among the very few films that approach perfection, Gregory La Cava's "My Man Godfrey" (1936) is surely one. #botd #filmsky

A close up portrait of a smiling Gregory La Cava, film director of the Hollywood Golden Age

A black and white photo, Carole Lombard and William Powell seated together in a scene from the Gregory La Cava film, My Man Godfrey (1936)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Remembering the great Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda #botd #filmsky Wish we had his POV today: thrilling movies that grappled with memory, myth, and moral responsibility.

portrait of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda

a woman holds her hand across the mouth of a man in a scene from Andrzej Wajda's Kanal (1957)

Robespierre in 18th century wig has his makeup applied in Andrzej Wajda's Danton (1983)

A man and a woman in the ruins of a church in a scene from Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Carole Lombard presenting Clark Gable with a ham with his picture on it, at the wrap party for No Man Of Her Own (1932).

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

On this day in 1954, Catherine O'Hara was born in Toronto. A Canadian comedy icon, she received two Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, the Order of Canada and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. She died on Jan. 30, 2026.

Catherine O'Hara standing indoors in front of a patterned metallic wall with round lights. She is shown from the waist up, wearing a long-sleeved red textured top. Her shoulder-length blonde hair is parted near the center, and she is smiling slightly while facing the camera. The background features repeating rectangular metal tiles with warm reflections and two visible round light fixtures on the right side.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You won’t find a warmer, funnier, or more insightful chronicler of life inside the golden age of Hollywood. David Niven #botd #filmsky

Book cover for David Niven’s memoirs, The Moons a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses

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