Anita Pallenberg: The soul of the '60s.

Featuring never-before-seen footage Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg is an intimate portrait of rock's most famous muse. In UK cinemas from 17 May. anita.film

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#Cannes2024 May 14 as a world premiere:  #Napoléon by #AbelGance (1st period), in a version resulting from a colossal restoration by the #Cinémathèquefrançaise , with the support of the CNC.
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Official Festival de Cannes #poster #art .

It is a scene from #Kurosawa 's 'Rhapsody In August.'

The #film #festival runs from 14th to the 25th of May 2024.

#Cannes #Cannes 2024 #Cannes 77

Letter about #Byron 's lost memoirs discovered in Cambridge.

#Byron 200 #LordByron #Literature #Poetry
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“Come, come, no weakness. Let's be a man to the last.'

Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/lord-byr…]

200th Anniversary ✒️ #LordByron [George Gordon #Byron ], British romantic poet, #DOTD 19 April 1824, aged 36. #Poetry #Literature #Byron 200

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

✒️ #DaphneDuMaurier , English novelist and playwright, #DOTD 19 April 1989. #Literature

'He paints with such accuracy and cunning that the eye is deceived and truly believes it is the real thing it sees, not a #painting .' (G.P. Guarienti)

🎨 Italian painter and etcher #Canaletto passed away #OTD 19 April 1768. #Art #Art s

📺 #OTD in #Animation and #TV #History 19 April 1987, #TheSimpsons first appeared in the short 'Good Night' as a segment on #TheTraceyUllmanShow . After recurring appearances, they debuted on their own show on 17 December 1989.

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📀 #OnThisDay in #Music #History 19 April 1971, #TheDoors released their sixth studio album LA WOMAN on Elektra Records. Frontman #JimMorrison would pass away three months later in Paris.

'Riders On The Storm': ▶️youtu.be/iv8GW1GaoIc

'Come up and see me sometime.'

🌹 #OTD in #Film #History 19 April 1927, #MaeWest was found guilty of obscenity in the NY stage play 'Sex'. She was fined $500 and sentenced to 10 days in prison. It was publicity money couldn't buy, and her Hollywood career was soon launched.

'Everything is becoming #sciencefiction . From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.'

✒ #JGBallard , English #scifi novelist, short story writer, and essayist, passed away #OTD 19 April 2009. #Literature

⚒️ #ClementMeadmore , Australian sculptor, #DOTD 19 April 2005. #Art #Sculpture

'To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.'

Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/henry-ne…]

✒️ #HenryJohnNewbolt , English poet and author (Studies Green & Gray), #DOTD 19 April 1938. #Poetry #Literature

“Deserve your dream.”

Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/octavio-…]

✒️ #OctavioPaz , Mexican diplomat and writer, #DOTD 19 April 1998. #Poetry

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

✒️ #DaphneDuMaurier , English novelist and playwright, #DOTD 19 April 1989. #Literature

'It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.'

✒️ #CharlesSandersPierce , American scientist and philosopher, #DOTD 19 April 1914.

✒️ #JohnAddingtonSymonds , British historian, poet, and writer, #DOTD 19 April 1893.

Poem: mypoeticside.com/poets/john-add…]

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

✒️ #CharlesDarwin , English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, #DOTD 19 April 1882.

'The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.'

✒️ #BenjaminDisraeli , 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80), and writer, #DOTD 19 April 1881. #Politics #Literature

“Come, come, no weakness. Let's be a man to the last.'

Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/lord-byr…]

200th Anniversary ✒️ #LordByron [George Gordon #Byron ], British romantic poet, #DOTD 19 April 1824, aged 36. #Poetry #Literature #Byron 200