Michael Warburton
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social
Actor, Cinephile & Culturalist posting stuff I like, no pandering. @TheMonologist on Twitter/‘X’.
People used to queue to see a Movie.
The hash Hollywood has made of the Film business is nothing short of an industrial-scale crime.
The hash Hollywood has made of the Film business is nothing short of an industrial-scale crime.
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People used to queue to see a Movie.
The hash Hollywood has made of the Film business is nothing short of an industrial-scale crime.
The hash Hollywood has made of the Film business is nothing short of an industrial-scale crime.
15yr old Elizabeth Taylor with ‘Monty’, ‘Twinkle’ and ‘Spot’ in 1947.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
15yr old Elizabeth Taylor with ‘Monty’, ‘Twinkle’ and ‘Spot’ in 1947.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN meeting HELEN KELLER in 1919.
Keller - blind & deaf since infancy - was in Hollywood on a speaking tour whilst Chaplin was known for his support of the deaf stemming from his work with hearing-impaired individuals to improve his skills during the silent film era.
Keller - blind & deaf since infancy - was in Hollywood on a speaking tour whilst Chaplin was known for his support of the deaf stemming from his work with hearing-impaired individuals to improve his skills during the silent film era.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
CHARLIE CHAPLIN meeting HELEN KELLER in 1919.
Keller - blind & deaf since infancy - was in Hollywood on a speaking tour whilst Chaplin was known for his support of the deaf stemming from his work with hearing-impaired individuals to improve his skills during the silent film era.
Keller - blind & deaf since infancy - was in Hollywood on a speaking tour whilst Chaplin was known for his support of the deaf stemming from his work with hearing-impaired individuals to improve his skills during the silent film era.
63 Candles 🎂 today for DEMI MOORE
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
63 Candles 🎂 today for DEMI MOORE
Remembering one of the greatest novelists of all time - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY - born 204yrs ago today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Remembering one of the greatest novelists of all time - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY - born 204yrs ago today.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
Remembering the late great
KURT VONNEGUT
born 103yrs ago today.
KURT VONNEGUT
born 103yrs ago today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Remembering the late great
KURT VONNEGUT
born 103yrs ago today.
KURT VONNEGUT
born 103yrs ago today.
65 Candles 🎂 today for the always excellent STANLEY TUCCI
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
65 Candles 🎂 today for the always excellent STANLEY TUCCI
2yr old LEONARDO DiCAPRIO with his parents in 1976.
He’s 49yrs older today 🎂
He’s 49yrs older today 🎂
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
2yr old LEONARDO DiCAPRIO with his parents in 1976.
He’s 49yrs older today 🎂
He’s 49yrs older today 🎂
51 Candles 🎂 today for
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
51 Candles 🎂 today for
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today”
John Maxwell Edmonds (1916)
#LestWeForget
For your tomorrow, we gave our today”
John Maxwell Edmonds (1916)
#LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today”
John Maxwell Edmonds (1916)
#LestWeForget
For your tomorrow, we gave our today”
John Maxwell Edmonds (1916)
#LestWeForget
“Skid Row” - Modesto, California in 1937
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Skid Row” - Modesto, California in 1937
Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali backstage after the “Night Of The Hurricane” - Madison Square Garden, 1975.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali backstage after the “Night Of The Hurricane” - Madison Square Garden, 1975.
GARY OLDMAN’s 2nd (TV) Film was Mike Leigh’s
MEANTIME (1983)
“The sapping, debilitating & demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period.” - Michael Coveney
#timroth #alfredmolina #phildaniels #tv
MEANTIME (1983)
“The sapping, debilitating & demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period.” - Michael Coveney
#timroth #alfredmolina #phildaniels #tv
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
GARY OLDMAN’s 2nd (TV) Film was Mike Leigh’s
MEANTIME (1983)
“The sapping, debilitating & demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period.” - Michael Coveney
#timroth #alfredmolina #phildaniels #tv
MEANTIME (1983)
“The sapping, debilitating & demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period.” - Michael Coveney
#timroth #alfredmolina #phildaniels #tv
Remembering the great
ENNIO MORRICONE
Born 97yrs ago today.
ENNIO MORRICONE
Born 97yrs ago today.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Remembering the great
ENNIO MORRICONE
Born 97yrs ago today.
ENNIO MORRICONE
Born 97yrs ago today.
Remembering the Clapham-born, 4-time Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning CLAUDE RAINS — who was born 136yrs ago today.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Remembering the Clapham-born, 4-time Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning CLAUDE RAINS — who was born 136yrs ago today.
4yrs ago today the Oscar-winning PETER JACKSON sold his visual effects company — Weta Digital — for $1.6bn.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
4yrs ago today the Oscar-winning PETER JACKSON sold his visual effects company — Weta Digital — for $1.6bn.
85yrs ago today - until his death in 1966 - WALT DISNEY became a secret informer for the L.A. office of the FBI (reporting on so called “subversives”).
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
85yrs ago today - until his death in 1966 - WALT DISNEY became a secret informer for the L.A. office of the FBI (reporting on so called “subversives”).
Cloris Leachman and Gene Wilder - both sadly late of this parish - on the set of
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
#film #movie #cinema #moviestills #behindthescenes #melbrooks
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
#film #movie #cinema #moviestills #behindthescenes #melbrooks
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Cloris Leachman and Gene Wilder - both sadly late of this parish - on the set of
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
#film #movie #cinema #moviestills #behindthescenes #melbrooks
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
#film #movie #cinema #moviestills #behindthescenes #melbrooks
Remembering ENNIO MORRICONE -
‘The Maestro’ -
born 97yrs ago today.
‘The Maestro’ -
born 97yrs ago today.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Remembering ENNIO MORRICONE -
‘The Maestro’ -
born 97yrs ago today.
‘The Maestro’ -
born 97yrs ago today.
Remembering the great ROY SCHEIDER - born 93yrs ago today.
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Remembering the great ROY SCHEIDER - born 93yrs ago today.
Interiors
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Interiors
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
Arctic Explorer, Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Cohn in 1947.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Arctic Explorer, Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Cohn in 1947.
Remembering the late great YVES MONTAND - who left us 34yrs ago today.
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Remembering the late great YVES MONTAND - who left us 34yrs ago today.