Sylvia Beach #botd — Founder of the influential Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company in 1919, publisher of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses, eulogised by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast...
Miles Davis, René Urtreger and Barney Wilen #botd, during the soundtrack recording for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud at Le Poste Parisien Studio, December 4-5, 1957.
Nicolas Roeg.
A genius of the cinema.
I was reading a lot of Jorge Luis Borges when I stumbled across Performance, and this began my passion for his elliptical editing approach to filmmaking.
He manipulated time and space to great emotional effect time after time.
The Paris Surrealists — Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton #botd, Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel and Man Ray.
📷 Anna Riwkin-Brick
@EdwardHMO Ten films to know me
1. The Graduate
2. Blow Up
3. La Strada
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Jules et Jim
6. Dr Strangelove
7. Walkabout
8. Belly of an Architect
9. Annie Hall
10. Cabaret
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
Muriel Spark
Anthony Burgess
D.H.Lawrence
Mikhail Bulgakov
Evelyn Waugh
André Gide
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky
Virginia Woolf
Saul Bellow