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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 4h

"That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets."

🎞 #OTD in #Film 15 October 1959, #AlfredHitchcock's espionage classic NORTH BY NORTHWEST, starring #CaryGrant, #EvaMarieSaint, and #JamesMason, had its London premiere.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 6h

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#WildlifePhotographerOfTheYear awards – in pictures

The #Wildlife #Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the #NaturalHistoryMuseum in #London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding #photography

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 10h

#BelaLugosi Biopic From ‘Ed Wood’ Writers in the Works at Universal

#Film

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"Thanks for finding my daughter's killers, Sean. If only you'd been a little faster."

🌊 #OTD in #Film #History 15 October 2003, #ClintEastwood's hard-hitting crime drama "Mystic River," starring Oscar winner #SeanPenn, #KevinBacon, and Oscar winner #TimRobbins, opened in 🇺🇸

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

Richard: You better call me later on, by sundown.

Larry: "By sundown"? What are you, Gary Cooper?

25th Anniversary 📺 #OTD in #TV #History 15 October 2000, #LarryDavid's fantastic sitcom series #CurbYourEnthusiasm debuted on HBO.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner."

🧼 #OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1999, #DavidFincher's bruising screen adaptation of #ChuckPalahniuk's novel FIGHT CLUB, starring #EdNorton and #BradPitt, hit 🇺🇸 cinemas.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"JOIN US!"

🪦 #OnThisDay in #Film #History 15 October 1981, #SamRaimi's cult #horror classic THE EVIL DEAD, starring #BruceCampbell, had its premiere at the Redford Theatre, Detroit, Michigan.

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"I might as well be reaching for the moon."

🎞️#OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1954, #BillyWilder's classic romantic comedy SABRINA, starring #AudreyHepburn, #HumphreyBogart, and #WilliamHolden, opened in the 🇺🇸

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

“A Bible for photographers.” (Robert Capa)

📸 #OTD in the #History of #Photography 15 October 1952, photographer #HenriCartierBresson's highly influential photography book "The Decisive Moment" was first published in the 🇺🇸 and 🇫🇷

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"We think too much and feel too little."

85th Anniversary 🌍#OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1940, #CharlieChaplin's superb satirical attack on fascism "The Great Dictator" opened in New York.

#Chaplin's magnificent final speech: ▶️ youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?si…

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"There is a man cut in two by the window"

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Art and #Literature 15 October 1924, #AndreBreton published his influential "Surrealist Manifesto" through Éditions du Sagittaire in Paris. His definition of #surrealism is below...

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 15 October 1922, #TSEliot's classic poem THE WASTE LAND was first published in the first issue of 'The Criterion Quarterly Review' in the 🇬🇧

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"I am no man, I am dynamite."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Philosophy 15 October 1888, #FriedrichNietzsche begins to write his autobiography ECCE HOMO: How One Becomes What One Is, on what is his 44th birthday. "How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 15 October 1816, while in Milan, #LordByron read the love poems shared between the poet #PietroBembo and #LucreziaBorgia, and declared them to be "the prettiest love letters in the world."

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

⚔️ #OTD in #History 15 October 1815, after nine weeks at sea onboard the HMS Northumberland, #Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St Helena to begin his final exile. He would endure for six years.

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

🩰 #OTD in #Dance #History 15 October 1581, the Ballet Comique de la Reine was held in the large hall of the Hôtel de la Bourbon. The elaborate court spectacle is held to have been the first #ballet. It was commissioned by Catherine de' Medici, King Henry III of France's mother.

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

✒ #SarahKofman, French philosopher and academic, #DOTD 15 October 1994. #Philosophy

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

“He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.”

🎶 #ColePorter, American composer and lyricist ("Anything Goes"; "Night And Day"; "I've Got You Under My Skin"), #DOTD 15 October 1964.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

🎨 #JanPoortenaar, Dutch artist, #DOTD 15 October 1958. #Art #Painting

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion."

🦋 #MataHari, Dutch dancer, was executed in France for being a German spy #OTD 15 October 1917. #Dance

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

Let music make less terrible
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/letiti...

✒️ #LetitiaElizabethLandon, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1838. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

🎨 Sir #NathanielDanceHolland, English painter, #DOTD 15 October 1811. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...

✒ #RobertHerrick, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1674. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

✒️ Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, known as #Faizi, poet and scholar of late medieval India, #DOTD 15 October 1595. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 13h

"When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top."

🎬 #ToddSolondz, American filmmaker and playwright, is 66 today. #Film #Theatre #Filmmaking