Movies for the Day, Saturday, April 29, 2017

Today's movies celebrate jazz, a publishing magnate, and birds.




Black and Tan (1929) is a short musical
film starring jazz great Duke Ellington,
born this date in 1899.  Only two days are
left in Jazz and Blues Appreciation Month.
This movie is on the National Film Register.





Black and Tan






Considered one of the greatest movies
ever, Citizen Kane (1941) is the story of
a publishing tycoon, based in part on real
life publisher William Randolph Hearst, born
this date, April 29, in 1863.  This story about
journalism, power and money won an Oscar
for Screenplay (Orson Welles and Herman J.
Mankiewicz).  Welles also starred.  It features
an American Film Institute Great Quote,
"Rosebud."  The movie is on the National Film
Registry.

Citizen Kane




Today is Go Birding Day.  Kes (1969) is
a British film about a boy and a falcon (and
larger themes).





Kes