Nathan Francis

YouTube video by Apple TV Mr. Scorsese — First Look | Apple TV+

#MrScorsese - First look at the new five-part #MartinScorsese #documentary hitting #Apple on 17 October.

#Film #Filmmaking

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Poem of the week: Autumn by Vidyan Ravinthiran Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood

#Poem of the week: #Autumn by #VidyanRavinthiran

#Keats ’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood

#Poetry

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Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’ Twenty-five years after his award-winning book was published, the Australian author revisits True History of the Kelly Gang

📖 A great novel...

#PeterCarey on #NedKelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’

Twenty-five years after his award-winning book was published, the Australian author revisits #TrueHistoryOfTheKellyGang...

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Although the movie was a constant of my childhood, I much prefer the books, which are unsentimental - Baum doesn't give a flip about “home” - and where everything is real - none of this dream framework.

A major literary loss of World War I, Stadler didn’t even make it through 1914. He was 31. He is in all the anthologies, quite rightly.

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"The only constant is change."

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 11 August 2006, #RyanFleck's hard-hitting school drama "Half Nelson," starring #RyanGosling, #ShareekaEpps, and #AnthonyMackie, was given a limited 🇺🇸 release.

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"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

🦇 #OTD in #Film #History 11 August 1989, #TimBurton's blockbuster #DC #comicbook adaptation BATMAN, starring #MichaelKeaton, #KimBasinger, and show-stealer #JackNicholson, was released in the 🇬🇧 within the new "12" age category.

📀 #OTD in #Music #History 11 August 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw a Back To School Jam party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, #TheBronx. The event is held to be the birthplace of #HipHop culture.

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Reporter: Tell me, how did you find America?

#JohnLennon: Turned left at Greenland.

🎶 #OTD in #Film #History 11 August 1964, #RichardLester's #musical #comedy "A Hard Day's Night," the first feature starring #TheBeatles, premiered in New York.

Their groundbreaking invention later became the basis for modern #tech in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

📲 #OTD in #Tech #History 11 August 1942 - Hollywood star #HedyLamarr and composer #GeorgeAntheil received a patent for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system designed to help secure Allied radio-guided torpedoes.

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"There's no place like home."

🌈 #OTD in #Film #History 11 August 1939, classic Hollywood #fantasy THE WIZARD OF OZ, starring #JudyGarland and #MargaretHamilton, had early test screenings in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. It immediately cast its spell over audiences.

“I shall tell the truth."

🎞️#OTD in #Film #History 11 August 1937, #WilliamDieterle's Best Picture Oscar-winning biopic "The Life of Emile Zola," starring #PaulMuni, was released in 🇺🇸

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

⚾️ #OTD in #Baseball #History 11 August 1929, #NewYork #Yankees super slugger #BabeRuth became the first #MLB
player to hit 500 career home runs in a 6-5 loss to the Cleveland Indians at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

English saint to receive prestigious doctor designation from Pope John Henry Newman will be the first British Doctor of the Church for more than 1,000 years.

#CardinalNewman will also soon be officially recognized as a Doctor of the Church by the #Catholic Church...
BBC News - English saint to receive prestigious doctor designation from Pope - BBC News
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Among his many talents, #CardinalNewman was an exceptional writer.

In fact, #JamesJoyce, who knew a bit about #writing, declared that nobody "has written English that can be compared with Newman's cloistered silver veined prose."

A man worth reading: newmanreader.org

Cor ad cor loquitur (Heart speaks unto heart) [Motto]

Today, 11 August, is the C of E Feast Day of #CardinalJohnHenryNewman. #DOTD 11 Aug 1890.

#CardinalNewman is an important figure in the religious history of C19th England. He was canonised by the Catholic Church in 2019.

⛪️ #OTD in the #History of #Architecture 11 August 1093, the foundation stone for the Norman #DurhamCathedral was laid by Bishop William of St. Calais and Prior Turgot of Durham in Durham, England.

“Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.”

🎭 Remembering #comedy legend and Oscar-winning actor #RobinWilliams, who passed away #OTD 11 August 2014. #Film #Filmmaking

"People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster."

🎭 #PeterCushing, British actor, #DOTD 11 August 1994. #HammerHorror #DrWho #StarWars

“ #Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

🎨 #JacksonPollock, American abstract-expressionist, #DOTD 11 August 1956. #Art

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”

✒️ #EdithWharton, American Pulitzer prize-winning author, #DOTD 11 August 1937. #Literature

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✒️ Sir #WilliamWatson, English poet, #DOTD 11 August 1935. #Poetry #Literature

🎨 #LaviniaFontana, trailblazing Italian painter, #DOTD 11 August 1614. #Art #Painting

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep."

🎭 #HamnetShakespeare, only son of #WilliamShakespeare, #DOTD 11 August 1596, aged 11. (Buried - he may have died 9 - 11). #Theatre #Literature

"Blessed be You, O God, for having created me." [Last Words]

🕯️ #SaintClareOfAssisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (the Poor Clares), #DOTD 11 August 1253. Today is her Catholic #FeastDay.

👑⚔️ #Trajan, Roman Emperor (98-117 AD) #DOTD c. 11 August 117 AD. #AncientRome

"I am tired of being Ringo, when I know I was John." ["Steve Jobs" (2015)]

"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."

🖥 #SteveWozniak, #Woz, pioneering American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded #Apple Inc, is 75 today.

"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."

✒️ #AlexHaley, African American writer (Roots; co-authored The Autobiography of Malcolm X), was #BOTD 11 August 1921. #Literature

✒️ #DikBrowne, cartoonist (#HagarTheHorrible), was #BOTD 11 August 1917. #Art #Comics #Illustration