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Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance catch their first glimpse of America-- and the American way of immigration-- in his 1917 political comedy THE IMMIGRANT.

Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin brawl in MABEL'S BUSY DAY (1914). Normand directed this frenetic comedy and clearly has a ball mixing it up with the boys.

drawing a man on a cycle, leaning forward, furiously pedalling away from a headless ghost on another bike. The ghost bike has a skull headlight

Lyonel Feininger
‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider),
“Das Narrenrad”, 1898

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Ninón Sevilla in "Aventurera" - BOTD

May at the piano, working on an arrangement.

Remembering Billy May on his birthday 🎂
📷 Gilles Petard, 1955

"Humor has always infused his writing, though his ballad writing is always beautiful & sensitive. This bright laughter is perhaps the reason he has not been given the credit that is his due."
- Gene Lees

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Carl Stalling, BOTD in 1891 (d. 1972).
One of the most innovative and influential film composers that most people have never heard of - because most of his music was written for the cartoon shorts of Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from the 1920s to 1950s.
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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

“I had played in theatres for about twenty years before sound came in. We improvised all the time for comedies and newsreels. I really was used to composing for films before I started writing for cartoons”

-Carl Stalling #BOTD

1929 Walt Disney Animation Staff. Stalling is seated at the piano

Vida de Oharu [西鶴一代女 (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)]
DoP: Yoshimi Hirano

image of 50s era london street it is raining

four faces wearing white jackets or sweaters lit from below by candles

two sullen-looking boys behind bars hanging out very 50s very british

picture from of above a group of people watching a movie, some glows in the beam of light from the projector.

The Long Day Closes (1992) dir. Terence Davies

Distant Voices, Still Lives - Terence Davies
1988

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Children (1976)

The Long Day Closes (1992)

The Neon Bible (1995)

Sunset Song (2015)

Windows in the films of Terence Davies - BOTD in 1945

Children (1976)
The Long Day Closes (1992)
The Neon Bible (1995)
Sunset Song (2015)

Honoring the life and work of the legendary composer Ennio Morricone, who was born on this day in 1928.

#Filmsky

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Danger: Diabolik (1968)

The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Images from films with scores by Ennio Morricone - BOTD in 1928

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Morricone hides behind an elaborate door; we can only see his body, with a score in his hand. In place of his face, his trademark eyeglasses.

Remembering Ennio Morricone on his birthday 🎂
📷 Guido Harari, 1998

"Morricone’s music is anything but a backdrop. It’s sometimes a conspirator, sometimes a lampoon, with tunes that are as vividly in the foreground as any of the actors’ faces."
- Jon Pareles

@jonpareles.bsky.social

#BOTD 1885
Esther Dale: American actress of the stage and screen. Had the title role on Broadway of Carrie Nation in 1933, which also starred James Stewart. Her first film was Crime Without Passion (1934), followed by many roles in movies and television. Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Roy Scheider in "Sorceror" - BOTD

The two in sunglasses at night, with the neon lights of Las Vegas behind them.

Remembering Roy Scheider on his birthday 🎂
With Sonia Braga on location for Frank D. Gilroy's Money Plays
📷 Joan Adlen, Las Vegas, 1997

So much cool!

Roy Scheider was born on 10 November 1932.

• Krylya (Wings) (Alas) (1966) de Larisa Shepitko.

Krylya (Wings), Larisa Shepitko (1966)

YouTube video by mirandalambertVEVO Miranda Lambert - Kerosene (Official HD Video)

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Miranda Lambert, 42 today.

YouTube video by Release - Topic Good To Go

The Andrew Cyrille #BOTD Trio - "Good To Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCuC... #Jazzsky

"You have to find your voice; you have to find something to say; you shouldn't be somebody who copies somebody else; you should be able to play something that represents you, something that you have to say."

Happy Birthday Andrew Cyrille
born November 10, 1939

YouTube video by AFlockOfSeagullsVEVO A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (Official Music Video)

#MMLifers Happy birthday to Frank Maudsley, 66 today.

YouTube video by westcoastpaeb Paul Bley - Alrac (solo piano) LIVE video 1973

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1932 and died aged 83 in 2016, Hyman Paul Bley.

"Music is language. It's conversation. If it's language and conversation, it should not be repetitive..repetitive..repetitive..repetitive. You got it the first time I said that word. We're talking about language, and aspiring to be ideas."

Happy Birthday Paul Bley
born November 10, 1932

Split diopter in THE ASCENT (Shepitko, 1977)

The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)

Soviet posters for “The Ascent” (1977)
#TCMParty #TCMImports #TheAscent #Voskhozhdenie #LarisShepitko