Join us as we celebrate the careers of award-winning actress Barbara Hershey and songwriter Paul Williams with special tributes at next month’s #TCMFF!
Plus, Bruce Goldstein will receive the Robert Osborne Award.
Exciting updates here: tcm.com/festival
Janet Faye Collins.
#ResistanceRoots
#WomensHistoryMonth
Janet Faye Collins was born on this day in 1917 in New Orleans. Collins was a ballerina, choreographer and teacher who broke the color barrier in classical ballet. In 1951, she became the first Black prima ballerina to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. /1
It’s almost funny how the only history it’s not okay to get rid of is the lionization of shit eating racists. Almost, but not quite.
rare to hear someone admit their cowardice so openly like that.
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
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25k in two hours.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
I’m ecstatic to announce that Eleanor & Frank Perry’s brilliant & controversial film “Last Summer” has been beautifully restored to its 1969 theatrical cut. Premiere screening Sunday 3/29 at the American Cinematheque’s Areo Theatre. Q&A with stars Barbara Hershey & Bruce Davison!
"[...]I am never really happy except when I am working. Of course I think all of us, unless we have something to do, grow a bit mad."
—Jean Harlow
(quote via a *must read* by Harlow Heaven: harlowheaven.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/a...)
Jean Harlow
📸 by: Strauss Peyton
The king has cancer. I love you, Bruce Campbell.
www.slashfilm.com/2114203/bruc...
Yep, that's right. DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and VHS tapes are cool again. 😎📼📀
Marketplace correspondent Nova Safo recently checked out Los Angeles’ popular video rental store Vidiots to see what the fuss is all about: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
What do you think of ATTRACTION (1969) ? My review is at the link below.
youtu.be/pK4SjYIWDkg
#tintobrass #italiandirector #eroticfilm
A photo of Neil Sedaka tapping his cap
NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Sedaka, million-selling singer and songwriter of 'Breaking Up Is Hard to Do' and dozens of other hits, dies at 86.
Now, *that* was a career.
Goodbye to Neil Sedaka.
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
When you realize that Warner Brothers said "Delete that shit" and the BBC chose to keep it...baby this is why I'm not debating nothing about modern racism. Full grown adults made a lot of choices
Evening viewing recommendation? Before it leaves the Criterion Channel, watch William Richert's WINTER KILLS (1979).
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS deserves to be on Criterion. But while you’re at it, Netflix, a team-up with Lionsgate to do a 4K release of the KNIVES OUT trilogy wouldn’t suck either.
Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker
Pic of the day
#photography
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
Modern actors spending months getting shredded for a film when their classic film counterparts just tighted their belts as much as possible, inhaled, and refused to take another breath while the camera was on.
You're right! Hadn't noticed that before, but they're missing a lot of great flicks not doing much animation
Some good deals here. Quite a few Blu-ray lots:
ebay.us/m/NuYSVy
Bud💔
I need to finally watch that. Seems exactly my thing
Born on this day: forever bombshell Mamie Van Doren!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89jbRwm/
