The Arctophile
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Wandering the footpaths of Kent and Sussex. "Say little and say it gently." Footpaths, trees, films, books, vegan. #TreeOfTheDay #NowWatching #BOTD #NowPlaying etc...
#BOTD 1914 Anita Colby: American actress, known for Mary of Scotland (1936), Brute Force (1947) and Cover Girl (1944). Hired by David O. Selznick in the 1940s to school his contract actresses in matters of beauty, poise and publicity. Credited as "America's first supermodel".
#BOTD 1905 Rita Page: English actress, known for Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937), Vigil in the Night (1940) Let's Love and Laugh (1931) and Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941).
#BOTD 1913 Robert Wesley Addy:American actor of stage and film. Many of his roles came in Robert Aldrich's films: Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), The Garment Jungle (1957), Ten Seconds to Hell (1959), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
#BOTD 1892 Lang Jingshan: pioneering photographer and one of the first Chinese photojournalists. He has been called "indisputably the most prominent figure in the history of Chinese art photography", and the "Father of Asian Photography". taikangartmuseum.com/tai-kang-col...
"I regret to report that War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, who made such a great contribution to the morale of our foot soldier, was killed in the battle of Le Shima, April 18 (1945)." Journalist Ernie Pyle, born 3 August 1900.
#NowWatching The Chase (D:Arthur Ripley, 1946) "One of the most unearthly and abstract of classic noirs, the film seems to exist on a plane of understanding only reached in the moment before waking up in a cold sweat in the dead of night."
#BOTD 1904 María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (Dolores del Río): Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood. www.invisible-women.co.uk/post/spotlig...
Spotlight: Dolores del Río
In this spotlight we delve deeper into the life and legacy of one of cinema's most mesmerising stars: Dolores del Río
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#BOTD 1918 Diana King: English actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1967), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982),The Scarf (1959), Ace of Wands (1970) and Schizo (1976).
#BOTD 1926 Meg Randall: American film actress. Active in motion pictures, radio, and television between 1946 and 1961, changing her name from Gene Roberts to Meg Randall in mid-1948. Criss Cross (1949), Abandoned (1949) and Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951).
#BOTD 1918 Zhou Xiaohong (Zhou Xuan): Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's Seven Great Singing Stars. Nicknamed the "Golden Voice", she was the best known of the seven, and had a concurrent movie career until 1954. www.sixthtone.com/news/1006639
#BOTD 1910 Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro: German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. Regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/pol...
#NowWatching Black Sunday (D: John Frankenheimer, 1977) "A truly marvellous final act tacked onto Frankenheimer’s dullest film." As always, Bruce Dern gives his all.
#BOTD 1901 Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet: French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favour of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.
David Warner in Volker Schlöndorff's "Man on Horseback", also known as "Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell" (based on the Heinrich von Kleist novel) - BOTD
#NowWatching Affair in Trinidad (D:Vincent Sherman,1952) "In the first place,this tepid fiction ... becomes as apparent and monotonous as a phonograph record on which the needle is stuck before it has traveled half the distance of the hour and forty minutes that it runs... " Bosley Crowther NY Times
#BOTD 1902 Jacques-André Boiffard: French photographer, born in Épernon in Eure-et-Loir. He was a medical student in Paris until 1924 when he met André Breton through Pierre Naville, a Surrealist writer, and childhood friend. www.moma.org/artists/2442...
#BOTD 1881 Gus McNaughton. Actor and writer, known for Hitchcock's Murder! (1930) and as one of a pair of commercial travellers in The 39 Steps (1935) "The new Bodyline rubber panty corset. On sale today. McCutcheon Brothers..."
Pistol Opera 2001 ピストルオペラ Directed by Seijun Suzuki An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition. The 'sequel' to Branded to Kill, replacing the male antihero with a female assassin #filmsky #japan #SuzukiSeijun #鈴木清順 📽️
Derwwod Andrews (Generation X), guitar, Rat Scabies (The Damned), drums & Soo Catwoman vocals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80s...
Soo Catwoman - Backstabbers
YouTube video by Spit Records
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