Felix Nussbaum
Self-portrait with Jewish Identity Card, Belgium 1943

Felix Nussbaum, born in Germany in 1904, murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, aged 39.
Within one year, Nussbaum's parents, grandparents,siblings, fiancée were murdered in concentration death camps.

Shoot the Piano Player 1960
French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life.

Charles Aznavour #BOTD

I love Bernard Sumner’s guitar playing. The bands he is in always have so much else going on, with fantastic musicians doing amazing things, that it’s easy to miss just how cool his guitar playing can be. Not the flashiest, but who gives a f**k about that? It sounds great, end of

Good morning from Baltimore, Maryland.

Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen & Art Garfunkel kissing each other during the filming of 'Carnal Knowledge', 1970.

(📸- Mary Ellen Mark)

#OTD Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) had its US release. A reworking of the legend of Billy the Kid, with his killing framed through Garrett's mournful recollection. The death of Sheriff Cullen Baker is one of the most poignant moments in the western genre.

The FA CUP FINAL between
Man CITY v Man UNITED KO 3pm free on BBC1 on Sat 25th

I personally want CITY to win , so then we will play another game at Wembley in the Community Shield
and ALSO I don't want UNITED winning any more FA CUPS so they catch us up

Fun, the political pundits complaining that the GE coincides with their booked holidays, their possible absence jeopordising our understanding of the campaign. We'll manage, don't worry, the same as we muddled through the management consultants' strike of 2019.

Scatman Crothers
May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986

Scatman Crothers, who played caretaker Dick Halloran, playing piano on the Overlook set, with a pipe shaped like a pistol
The Shining 1980

#OTD In 1969, If ... wins the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Oscars ignored Lindsay Anderson's radical satire about an insurrection at a British boys school, but in light of current events it feels more relevant than ever. Good early showcase for Malcolm McDowell

May 23 1972 was the premiere of The Other.
Robert Mulligan's film set on a 1930s family farm starts out nostalgic and charming, and only slowly does the horror build up. The story of the boy Niles who still sees his dead twin Holland has a doozy of a twist. Uta Hagen is great.

''The Sugarland Express' (1974) was the biggest bite I had ever taken out of the cinematic pie up to that point in my career, and I wasn't prepared for it. But I learned how to do it— sort of on-the-job training.'

--- Steven Spielberg

If Trump is acquitted, he's innocent.
If Trump is convicted, the case was rigged and political.
If Trump wins the election, it is legitimate.
If Trump loses, it was rigged and need not be accepted.
Forty percent of my fellow citizens are four-year-old brats in full tantrum.

#OTD In 1984, Paris Texas wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
While the Oscars were cooing over Amadeus, Cannes fell for Wim Wenders' road trip movie with recluse Harry Dean Stanton roaming the Southwest to find the lovely Nastassja Kinski. A fascinating movie.

'I do think 'Jeanne Dielman' (1975) is a feminist film because I give space to things which were never, almost never, shown in that way, like the daily gestures of a woman. They are the lowest in the hierarchy of film images.”

--- Chantal Akerman

'You can’t quite boil Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver’s power down to 1 or 2 sentences. It is probably the most novelistic, complex character study for my money in the history of cinema. It’s only in novels where you find a character treated like that.'

--- Quentin Tarantino

'What's good about 'The Taking of Pelham 123' (1974) example of the form is that the performances are allowed enough leeway so that we care about the people not the plot mechanics. What could have been formula trash turns out to be fairly classy trash, after all'

--- Roger Ebert

'I made 'Shoot the Piano Player' (1960) completely without reflection. When people first saw it, they said, 'Why did you make a film about such a disgusting lowlife?' but I never posed this question to myself.'

--- François Truffaut

Klaus Kinski's intense argument with the production manager, Walter Saxer during the filming of Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo' (1982)

'I want a dream when I go to a film. I see Fellini's '8½' (1963) & it makes me dream for a month afterward; or Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) or Kubrick's 'Lolita' (1962). There’s an abstract thing in there that just thrills my soul.'

--- David Lynch