EdwardMO

Born in Spain, she fled Europe to Mexico in 1941, where she developed her practice of juxtaposing surrealist techniques with imagery from chivalric romance, geographic explorations, feminist critique, mysticism, and tarot...

Remedios Varo
December 16, 1908 – October 8, 1963

"The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too..."

Anne-Marie Duff #botd

“I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing, and has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive...”

Matt Damon #botd

With director Paul Greengrass filming The Bourne Ultimatum

"I loved the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien."
Sigourney Weaver #botd

Claude Jade #botd had a distinguished career on stage and screen, and above all will be remembered for the three films she made with François Truffaut as Christine in Baisers volés, Domicile conjugal, and L'amour en fuite.

Cats opened on Broadway in October 1982 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The London production ran for 21 years, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.

Audrey Hepburn in the south of France
filming Two for the Road
📷 Terry O’Neill

Autumn in Sussex...

“Whether approaching a baroque concerto, a modern classic, a jazz standard or a large-scale project, Alison is exceptional not just for her technique and musicianship, but for her integrity, creativity and inspiring sense of purpose...” — Alain Lanceron

Alison Balsom #botd

"My teacher Leonard Rose was such a great cellist. I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries..."

Yo-Yo Ma #botd

"We live in a moment of history when change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing..."

R D Laing #botd

More than 200 hikers are stranded by a blizzard on the Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest...

Featuring an unforgettable Bette Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business...

Bette Davis
April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989

He worked with many of the major singers of his day, but it was his recordings with Frank Sinatra, particularly on the revered Capitol albums, that cemented his legacy...

Nelson Riddle
June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985

Britt Ekland #botd and Patrick Lichfield
📷 Terry O'Neill

Oh What a Lovely War, developed and directed by Joan Littlewood #botd with the Theatre Workshop, opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in March 1963. The radical political musical is one of the landmarks of post-war British theatre.

Carole Lombard #botd
📷 George Hurrell

"Light creates ambience and feel of a place,
as well as the expression of a structure..."

Le Corbusier #botd

The Jazz Singer opened on October 6, 1927. The first feature-length film with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era.

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark was fierce in her love of photography. It extended to the people she worked with: her staff, her subjects, her students, and the other photographers in her life...

Meera Sodha’s recipe for spinach and feta galette
with lemon and pine nut salsa...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

"When I was filming Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am."

Kate Winslet #botd

"When a truth is not given complete freedom,
freedom is not complete."

Václav Havel #botd

Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated their cinématographe to scientists in 1895, and six weeks later to the general public. Audiences were stunned by the realism...

Louis Lumière #botd

October 5, 1962 — Premiere of ‘Dr. No’ at the London Pavilion, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, directed by Terence Young with Sean Connery as 007.

Antelope Canyon in the American Southwest, just east of Page, Arizona. The narrow, undulating spaces between rock formations allow for vivid patterns when sunlight filters through the striated stone...

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got..."

Janis Joplin
January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970

"New Yorkers are very cool. They don’t start screaming. They’re like, 'Hey, how are you doing? I like your work. You’re looking good'..."

Susan Sarandon #botd

“Terence Conran #botd was instrumental in the re-designing of post-war Britain and his legacy is huge. Revered by generations of designers from Mary Quant and David Mellor to Thomas Heatherwick and Jony Ive..." — Tim Marlow

Alvin Toffler #botd, known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, was regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists...