This Day in Buster… March 14, 1921
"Hard Luck" is released. One of Buster Keaton’s darkest short comedies, he spends most of it trying to end it all.
#oldhollywood#silentfilm#damfino
Era nell’aria. La cover di Tony Pitony e Ditonellapiaga è un vero capolavoro di musica, di canto, di performance. Incredibile la capacità dei giovani di leggere la musica del passato. #Sanremo2026
in 1995 Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola helped restore and re-released "I Am Cuba" by brilliant Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov. Castro and Che Guevara also advised on the film. Scorsese considers it a masterpiece of cinema, and this famous continuous shot shows why:
No longer do we see the standard of playwriting provided by Shakespeare, nor do we see a level of acting such as Laurence Olivier's performance of "Now is the winter of our discontent''
(famous opening line from Shakespeare's play, Richard III, spoken by the villainous Duke of Gloucester and (later) Richard III). Actors today rarely have the vocabulary, let alone the ability to perform entire scenes so seamlessly. Compare this one scene to the modern entertainment industry, and you'd have to be blind to think that we've moved forward instead of backwards. 🎭⏳️
Brian De Palma is back. Period. End of story. You don’t need to know more. You just need to know that at 85 years old, one of the greatest directors to ever live is giving us another film. I have goosebumps writing that. I’m so ready for more Brian De Palma. Week-making news.
Seeing the Pink Panther main theme performed live is unreal. Henry Mancini conducting, Plas Johnson on sax like the original recording, and the Terry Gibbs Band locking in behind him.
Film music history happening in real time.