LJB
@finljb.bsky.social
Londoner living in the North.
Classic/Silent Cinema, Film Noir, Film, Indie Music, Gigs, Festivals, Bookaholic, History, Art, Architecture...and other stuff of interest.
Classic/Silent Cinema, Film Noir, Film, Indie Music, Gigs, Festivals, Bookaholic, History, Art, Architecture...and other stuff of interest.
Very sad news. 😥
Gene Hackman, 95, and pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, found dead at home with their dog
Gene Hackman, 95, and pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, found dead at home with their dog
The Oscar-winning star of The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman and The Poseidon Adventure has died, along with his classical musician wife, according to a Santa Fe sheriff
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. In a…
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February 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Very sad news. 😥
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David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while…
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January 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
The Ending of Wolf Hall Explained and What Happened to Cromwell’s Son www.damian-lewis.com/2024/12/15/5...
The Ending of Wolf Hall Explained and What Happened to Cromwell’s Son
– The Fate of Henry’s Court – by Ben Dowell | The Times | December 15, 2024 The curtain — or rather the axe — came down on Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell on BBC1 on Sunday ni…
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December 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
The Ending of Wolf Hall Explained and What Happened to Cromwell’s Son www.damian-lewis.com/2024/12/15/5...
BBC News - Dorothy's ruby slippers sell for $28m at auction
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Dorothy's ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz movie sell for $28m
The shoes, worn by Judy Garland in the classic 1939 movie, went for $25m more than the auctioneer's estimate.
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December 8, 2024 at 8:52 AM
BBC News - Dorothy's ruby slippers sell for $28m at auction
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The findings will be revealed on Tuesday at 9pm in Channel 5's Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery.
You can read my piece on it in @thetimes.com now
Princes in the Tower: significant find adds to murder theory
www.thetimes.com/article/0a66...
#history
You can read my piece on it in @thetimes.com now
Princes in the Tower: significant find adds to murder theory
www.thetimes.com/article/0a66...
#history
Princes in the Tower: significant find adds to murder theory
A newly discovered will links a gold chain belonging to Edward V to one of his alleged killers
www.thetimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
The findings will be revealed on Tuesday at 9pm in Channel 5's Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery.
You can read my piece on it in @thetimes.com now
Princes in the Tower: significant find adds to murder theory
www.thetimes.com/article/0a66...
#history
You can read my piece on it in @thetimes.com now
Princes in the Tower: significant find adds to murder theory
www.thetimes.com/article/0a66...
#history
Channel 5 9pm tonight! 3rd Dec
BBC News - New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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December 3, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Channel 5 9pm tonight! 3rd Dec
BBC News - New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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1/2. The rushes for Josef von Sternberg's unfinished film of I, CLAUDIUS (1937) get an airing on BBC Four on Thursday in the documentary THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, 1965). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 AM
1/2. The rushes for Josef von Sternberg's unfinished film of I, CLAUDIUS (1937) get an airing on BBC Four on Thursday in the documentary THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, 1965). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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2/2. It feels as if you're watching what should have been the defining performance of Charles Laughton's career. There are great turns from Merle Oberon as Messalina, Flora Robson as Livia and Emlyn Williams as Caligula, too.
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 AM
2/2. It feels as if you're watching what should have been the defining performance of Charles Laughton's career. There are great turns from Merle Oberon as Messalina, Flora Robson as Livia and Emlyn Williams as Caligula, too.
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The world got its first glimpse on Friday of the newly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The Gothic medieval masterpiece is scheduled to reopen on Dec. 8, five years after a devastating fire shut it down. nyti.ms/41fB1zb
November 29, 2024 at 6:39 PM
The world got its first glimpse on Friday of the newly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The Gothic medieval masterpiece is scheduled to reopen on Dec. 8, five years after a devastating fire shut it down. nyti.ms/41fB1zb
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Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque
Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque
Historic England to recognise home where Hollywood legend said he spent ‘happiest days’ of his childhood
The humble West Country beginnings of one of Hollywood’s most glittering stars is being commemorated with the unveiling of a Historic England…
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November 22, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque
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On a horribly delayed train journey but just had a heartening conversation with a Powell and Pressburger aficionado who works in a local bookshop. We both agree that The Glass Pearls is a magnificent book. www.waterstones.com/book/the-gla...
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions) by Emeric Pressburger, Anthony Quinn | Waterstones
Buy The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions) by Emeric Pressburger, Anthony Quinn from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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November 20, 2024 at 8:39 AM
On a horribly delayed train journey but just had a heartening conversation with a Powell and Pressburger aficionado who works in a local bookshop. We both agree that The Glass Pearls is a magnificent book. www.waterstones.com/book/the-gla...
View from inside the original Leeds General Infirmary entrance. ❤️
November 19, 2024 at 2:34 PM
View from inside the original Leeds General Infirmary entrance. ❤️
White Cloth Hall, Crown Street, Leeds. A recent visit this month. ❤️
November 19, 2024 at 2:28 PM
White Cloth Hall, Crown Street, Leeds. A recent visit this month. ❤️
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The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
‘Makes my heart beat faster’: why I Know Where I’m Going! is my feelgood movie
In the first of a new series in which writers explain their favourite mood-lifting watch, an ode to a charming 40s romance
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November 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
“My films are basically silent films… The dialogue just adds some weight.”
Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood
Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood
The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs
They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of…
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November 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
“My films are basically silent films… The dialogue just adds some weight.”
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Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies aged 39 after falling from building
Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies aged 39 after falling from building
St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre says dancer was taking painkillers for an injury and fell from fifth floor
The acclaimed Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov has died aged 39.
Shklyarov died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on…
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November 18, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies aged 39 after falling from building
BBC News - Watch given to Titanic hero sells for £1.5m
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November 18, 2024 at 12:59 AM
BBC News - Watch given to Titanic hero sells for £1.5m
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Technology used to recreate Richard III’s voice with Yorkshire accent
Technology used to recreate Richard III’s voice with Yorkshire accent
A digital avatar of the king’s head, complete with ‘meticulously researched’ voice, is on display at York Theatre Royal
Technology has been used to recreate the voice of the medieval king Richard III, complete with a distinctive Yorkshire accent.
A…
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November 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Technology used to recreate Richard III’s voice with Yorkshire accent