@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
Passionate about #Art and #Culture. UK Interested in #Arts #Comedy #Film #History #Literature #Philosophy #Tech
"Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders."
🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 13 December 2001, #RonHoward's Best Picture Oscar-winning biopic of John Nash, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, starring #RussellCrowe, premiered in LA.
"I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."
🛸 #OTD in #Film #History 13 Dec 1996, #TimBurton's #scifi comedy "Mars Attacks!", starring #JackNicholson, #DannyDeVito, #LukeHaas, and #TomJones, hit 🇺🇸
"You had me at hello."
🏈 #OTD in #Film #History 13 Dec 1996, #CameronCrowe's sports agent romantic comedy JERRY MAGUIRE, starring #TomCruise, #ReneeZellweger, and #CubaGoodingJr, opened in the 🇺🇸
#OTD in #Film #History 13 December 1989, Bruce Beresford's Best Picture Oscar-winning film DRIVING MISS DAISY, starring #MorganFreeman and #JessicaTandy, was released in 🇺🇸
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Mr. Green: Who would wanna kill the cook?
Miss Scarlet: Dinner wasn't that bad.
🏠 #OTD in #Film #History 13 Dec 1985, #JohnathanLynn's adaptation of the murder mystery board game CLUE, starring #TimCurry, #ChristopherLLoyd, #MadelineKahn, and #MichaelMcKean, was released in 🇺🇸
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
🎨 #GrandmaMoses, American painter who began painting in earnest aged 78, passed away #OTD 13 December 1961, aged 101. #Art #Painting
"Every work of #art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated."
🎨 Russian artist #WassilyKandinsky passed away #OTD 13 December 1944. #Painting
🎨 #TheoVanRysselberghe, Belgian painter (Pointillism), #DOTD 13 December 1926. #Art #Painting
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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
🎨 #WillemVanDeVelde the Elder, Dutch painter, #DOTD 13 December 1693. #Art #Painting
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Poems: allpoetry.com/Phineas-Flet...
✒️ #PhineasFletcher, English poet, #DOTD 13 December 1650. #Poetry #Literature
⚒️ #Donatello, Italian Renaissance Florentine sculptor, #DOTD 13 December 1466. #Art #Sculpture
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“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
✒️ #Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon], Sephardic Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and physician (Mishneh Torah), #DOTD 13 Dec 1204. #Philosophy
"That's what's great about the #arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work."
🎭 #JamieFoxx is 58 today. #Acting #Film #Filmmaking
"My favourite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."
🎭 Superb American actor #SteveBuscemi is 68 today. #Acting #Film #Filmmaking
"That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it."
🎭 Wishing #DickVanDyke a very happy 100th birthday! #Film #TV
"Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license."
🎭 Remembering the great #ChristopherPlummer, #BOTD 13 December 1929. #Acting #Film #Filmmaking
🎨 #AntoniTapies, Spanish painter, sculptor and theorist (Dau al Set), was #BOTD 13 December 1923. #Art
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GABRIEL: How about cleanin' up de whole mess of 'em and sta'tin' all over ag'in wid some new kind of animal?
GOD: An' admit I'm licked?
✒ American playwright #MarcConnelly, author of "Green Pastures," was #BOTD 13 December 1890. #Theatre #Literature
🎨 #EmilyCarr, Canadian painter, was #BOTD 13 December 1871. #Art #Painting
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🎨 #FranzVonLenbach, German painter, was #BOTD 13 December 1836. #Art #Painting
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"People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Heinrich-Heine
✒ German poet, author, and critic #HeinrichHeine was #BOTD 13 December 1797. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
✒️ #WilliamDrummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet, was #BOTD 13 December 1585. #Poetry #Literature
🎞 January 2026: #DavidLynch: The Dreamer Season at #BFI Southbank #London
#Film #Event
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
🔪 #WakeUpDeadMan: A #KnivesOut Mystery is now playing on #Netflix in the 🇬🇧
www.netflix.com/gb/title/814...
"Doc may not be a "Do-Gooder" but he's done good."
🛳 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Dec 2014, #PaulThomasAnderson's adaptation of #ThomasPynchon's INHERENT VICE, starring #JoaquinPhoenix, #KatherineWaterston, and #JoshBrolin, had a limited 🇺🇸 release.
"What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes."
📺 #OTD in #Film #History 12 December 1988, #BarryLevinson's Best Picture Oscar-winning RAIN MAN, starring #TomCruise and #DustinHoffman, premiered in New York.
🪩 #OTD in #Film #History 12 December 1977, #JohnBadham's disco drama SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, starring #JohnTravolta, premiered in New York.
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"My father taught me many things here - he taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
🫒 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Dec 1974, #FrancisFordCoppola's THE GODFATHER PART II, starring #AlPacino and #RobertDeNiro, premiered in New York.
"Tell them to break out their hymnbooks and start singing "Nearer My God To Thee"!"
🛳️ #OTD in #Film #History 12 Dec 1972, "The Poseidon Adventure", directed by #RonaldNeame, starring #GeneHackman, #ErnestBorgnine, and #ShelleyWinters, premiered in NY.
