EdwardMO

"My love for the theater has always been a priority. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise..."

Philip Seymour Hoffman
July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014

"The key words in the script are: 'Don dances in the wet street'. On-screen, these six words become four minutes of song and dance that define Gene Kelly and the whole genre of original Hollywood musicals..." — Jeanine Basinger

Gene Kelly
August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996

The American jazz saxophonist, influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz #botd helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".

Sonny Stitt #botd, American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom, known for his warm tone, was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his era, recording over 100 albums...

Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image...”

Elaine de Kooning
March 12, 1918 – February 1, 1989

Buster Keaton did all his own stunts. Perhaps the most celebrated was when the facade of a house falls around him in 'Steamboat Bill, Jr'. The stunt relied on precise mathematics and nerves of steel...

Buster Keaton
October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966

"Unknown as an artist during her lifetime, wildly prolific and with an attitude all her own, Vivian Maier #botd left more than 150,000 photographs, some printed by herself, many processed as negatives, and yet more still undeveloped..." — Adrian Searle

“If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted…” — S. J. Perelman #botd

📷 Groucho Marx, S. J. Perelman and Kenneth Tynan

It Happened One Night
dir. Frank Capra
Clark Gable #botd, Claudette Colbert

Swept the board at the 7th Academy Awards, accomplishing the rare feat of winning all five major categories — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Kate Hudson relaxing on set
while filming Almost Famous...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

Stepping out of the cable car in the Vallée Blanche,
near Chamonix in France, the scenery is epic...

Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for the triumphant stage hit Guys and Dolls which opened on Broadway in 1950, and was later filmed by Joseph Mankiewicz starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons #botd, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine...

"Something Mailer did better than writing novels was to apply the techniques of fiction to a non-fiction subject. The first book to use this strategy was The Armies of the Night..." — James Campbell

Norman Mailer #botd

Probably no story since The 400 Blows excited François Truffaut as much as Day for Night. It’s a film about film-making from a celebrated film lover; it’s hard to see how the subject could have failed to energize him.

Jack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for On the Road – the 37 metre (121ft) long roll of paper on which he typed his defining Beat novel in a three-week burst – will go under the hammer at Christie’s in March, with a sale estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m (US$2.5m to US$4m).

An iguana clings to a tree branch
at Wakodahatchee wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida

The source of the bestselling jazz album of all time, 1959’s Kind of Blue, trumpeter Miles Davis is a towering figure in the history of jazz, and May 26 marks 100 years since he was born...

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull died at the age of 78 this day in 2025. She passed away peacefully in London, in the company of her loving family...

Photographed in Paris, 1964.

A detailed account of John Barry’s film work, with fully-illustrated essays on over forty scores, providing fresh insights into his remarkable legacy that includes five Oscars...

John Barry
November 3, 1933 – January 30, 2011

"I give myself to my parts as to a lover..."
Vanessa Redgrave #botd

Julia • Blow-Up • Howards End

Born and raised in Sydney, Shirley Hazzard #botd lived in Hong Kong, New York, Naples and Capri, and her writing — cosmopolitan, questing — reflects her life...

"This fascinating biography has sent me back to Hazzard’s writing, which is so good..." — Rachel Cooke

"I had been a student at the Pasadena Playhouse, where I had been awarded the least-likely-to-succeed prize, along with my pal Dustin Hoffman, which was a big reason we set off for New York..."

Gene Hackman #botd

Delbert Mann #botd made his directorial debut with Marty. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Delbert Mann won Best Director, Ernest Borgnine Best Actor, Paddy Chayefsky Best Adapted Screenplay, and Marty was the first film to be awarded the Palme d'Or.

"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group,
and I hope we've passed the audition.” — John Lennon

On this day in 1969, the Beatles played a 42-minute set on the roof of their Apple Corps offices in London’s Savile Row, their last public performance...

Bruce Springsteen has released an anti-ICE song dedicated to Minneapolis. Singer says song is in response to ‘state terror’ visiting city, painting image of unrest due to ‘King Trump’s private army’...

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More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

Jacques Rivette
March 1, 1928 – January 29, 2016

"His appetite for cinema was voracious and his insight was unparalleled. It was as though he had privileged access to cinematographic truth...”

— Jean-Luc Godard

Katharine Ross #botd

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Graduate • Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here