🔥🎞 #KenRussell’s #TheDevils definitive #4KRestoration to launch ahead of major #BFI #retrospective #BFIDistribution and #WarnerBrosClockwork unveil a 30 October 2026 cinema release and a major #BFISouthbank retrospective celebrating Ken Russell’s work in summer 2027 www.bfi.org.uk/news/ken-rus...

Ken Russell’s The Devils definitive 4K restoration to launch ahead of major BFI retrospective

BFI Distribution and Warner Bros. Clockwork unveil a 30 October 2026 cinema release and a major BFI Southbank retrospective celebrating Ken Russell’s work in summer 2027.

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🎨 #CharlesHaroldDavis, American painter and academic, #DOTD 5 August 1933. #Art #Painting

Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? 🎶#OTD in #Music #History 5 August 1966, #TheBeatles released their 7th studio album "REVOLVER" on Parlophone and the single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine." ▶️ youtu.be/HuS5NuXRb5Y

#OTD in #History 5 August 1962, #NelsonMandela returns from miltary training outside the country, after 17 months on-the-run, and is arrested for leaving the country illegally and for incitement to strike, by CIA-aided security police. #Mandela will be sentenced to 5 years.

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 5 August 1953, #FredZinnemann's Best Picture Oscar-winning adaptation of #JamesJones' novel FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, starring #BurtLancaster, #DeborahKerr, #MontgomeryClift, and #FrankSinatra, was released in 🇺🇸

"I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject." (Wallace) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚔️ #OTD in #History 5 August 1305, #WilliamWallace was delivered into the hands of English soldiers at Robroyston, near Glasgow, by John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to English King Edward I.

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another." ✒️ #ToniMorrison, African American author (Nobel Prize in #Literature 2010), #DOTD 5 August 2019.

"You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody." [On The Waterfront] ✒ #BuddSchulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer, #DOTD 5 August 2009. #Film #Filmmaking #Literature

"An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego." 🎭 Great English actor Sir #AlecGuinness #DOTD 5 August 2000. #Acting #Film #Filmmaking

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." 🎭 Welsh #film and #theatre legend with the voice of voices, #RichardBurton #DOTD 5 August 1984. ▶️ youtu.be/2DLqN1RvfUc

"I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edgar-... ✒ #EdgarAlbertGuest, English-American journalist and poet, #DOTD 5 August 1959. #Poetry #Literature

"One caught glimpses of an art-form which, for all its rusticity and naiveté, had a mysterious beauty like some of Shakespeare’s songs." (Memorial Volume) 🎶 #GeorgeButterworth, British composer, was killed at the Battle of the Somme #OTD 5 August 1916. ▶️ youtu.be/AUsisFkLCxo

“All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.” ✒️ #FriedrichEngels, German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist, co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, #DOTD 5 August 1895. #Philosophy

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendel... ✒ #WendellBerry, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist, was #BOTD 5 August 1934. #Poetry #Literature

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind... " "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." 🌑 First man on the moon, #NeilArmstrong was #BOTD 5 August 1930. #Space #History

🎨 #GeorgeTooker, American painter, was #BOTD 5 August 1920. #Art #Painting

🎶 American composer and conductor #LeonardBernstein was #BOTD 25 August 1918. #ClassicalMusic #Mahler - Adagietto. Sehr langsam. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor, 1901-02. Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, 1973: ▶️ youtu.be/Bj6KLv7kv2Q?si…

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on." 🎬 #JohnHuston was #BOTD 5 August 1906. AFI Speech: ▶️ youtu.be/jnclaqZ7SeE #Film #Filmmaking

🎨 #IreneRicePereira, American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher, #BOTD 5 August 1902. #Art #Painting

"Either build functional houses and bridges or create pure art... Don't confuse one with the other. Because such art is not pure constructive art, but merely an imitation of the machine." ⚒ #NaumGabo, Constructivist Russian-American sculptor and theorist, was #BOTD 5 August 1890. #Art #Sculpture

⚒ #AnneAcheson, British-Irish sculptor, was #BOTD 5 August 1882. #Art #Sculpture

🎨 #TomThomson, Canadian painter, was #BOTD 5 August 1877. #Art #Painting

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." ✒️ #MaryRitterBeard, American historian, suffragist, and activist, was #BOTD 5 August 1876. #History

🎨 #LouisWain, English artist, was #BOTD 5 August 1860. #Art #Painting

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3... ✒️ #GuyDeMaupassant, French author, was #BOTD 5 August 1850. #Literature

🎨 #IlyaRepin, Ukrainian-born Russian painter and sculptor, was #BOTD 5 August 1844. #Art #Painting

Letters from a Cataclysm #BookReview by #LlewelynMorgan Orator: The Life of #Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic By #CatharineEdwards Hutchinson Heinemann 464pp £30 #AncientRome #Biography literaryreview.co.uk/letters-from...

Llewelyn Morgan - Letters from a Cataclysm

Llewelyn Morgan: Letters from a Cataclysm - Orator: The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic by Catharine Edwards

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Shhhh! They're quiet and shy... 🐾Today, 4 August, is #CloudedLeopardDay 🐾

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"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks." 💵 #OTD in #Film #History 4 August 1967, #ArthurPenn's masterpiece "Bonnie and Clyde", starring #WarrenBeatty and #FayeDunaway, premiered at the #Montreal International Film #Festival 🇨🇦

“A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.” 📷 #OTD in #Film #History 4 August 1954, #AlfredHitchcock's voyeuristic masterpiece "Rear Window," starring #JimmyStewart and #GraceKelly, premiered in New York.

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