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Sunday, December 29, 2024
On this day in movie history - A Man Called Otto (2022):
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A Man Called Otto
directed by Marc Forster,
written by David Magee,
based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman,
was
released in the United States on December 29, 2022.
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Tom Hanks, Truman Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel
Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Juanita Jennings, Emonie Ellison, Peter Lawson
Jones, Laval Schley, Mike Birbiglia, David Magee, John Higgins.
On this day in movie history - Blue Valentine (2010):
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Blue Valentine
directed by Derek Cianfrance,
written by Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis,
was
released in the United States on December 29, 2010.
Music by Grizzly Bear.
Music by Grizzly Bear.
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Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams,
Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson, Jen Jones, Maryann
Plunkett, James Benatti, Barbara Troy, Carey Westbrook, Ben Shenkman, Eileen
Rosen, Enid Graham, Ashley Gurnari, Jack Parshutich, Samii Ryan, Mark Benginia,
Timothy Liveright, Tamara Torres, Robert Russell, Michelle Nagy, Felicia Reid, Melvin
Jurdem, Alan Malkin, Derik Belanger, Isabella Frogoletto, Madison Ledergerber, Jaimie
Jensen, Joseph Basile, Ian Bonner, Robert Eckard, Michael J. Kraycik, Corey
Sullivan.
Born on this day – Mary Tyler Moore:
Mary Tyler Moore
Actress
Producer
December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017
Born on this day – Mike Nussbaum:
Mike Nussbaum
Actor
December 29, 1923 – December 23, 2023
The Old Country (2021); Tom
of Your Life (2020); Nostalgic (2014); The Chicago Code (2011); Osso Bucco
(2008); Dirty Work (2006); The Game of Their Lives (2005); Off-Loop, on Stage (2004);
The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2002); Flying (2002); Sailorman (2000); In Our
Own Hands (2000); Cupid (1998); The Con (1998); Early Edition (1997); Men in
Black (1997); The X-Files (1997); The Commish (1992–1996); Shadow of a Doubt
(1995); Steal Big Steal Little (1995); Frasier (1995); Losing Isaiah (1995); Gypsy
(1993); Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (1993); Class of '96
(1993); Condition: Critical (1992); Overexposed (1992); The Water Engine (1992);
Gladiator (1992); Brooklyn Bridge (1991); Separate But Equal (1991); Desperate
Hours (1990); L.A. Law (1990); Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990); 227
(1990); Field of Dreams (1989); Things Change (1988); Fatal Confession: A
Father Dowling Mystery (1987); Fatal Attraction (1987); House of Games (1987); The
Equalizer (1987); Spenser: For Hire (1986); Vital Signs (1986); Towing (1978); Harry
and Tonto (1974); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1972); T.R. Baskin (1971); The
Monitors (1969).
Born on this day – Lily Ebert:
Lily Ebert
Writer
Holocaust survivor
December 29, 1923 – October 9, 2024
Credits:
Television:
Good Morning Britain (2021);
Sky Midnight News (2021); Sky World News (2021); The View (2022).
Book:
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Lily's Promise
How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
By Lily Ebert and Dov
Forman.
Hardcover.
Published 2021.
Published by Macmillan.
ISBN 13: 9781529073409
ISBN 10: 1529073405
ASIN: 1529073405
Description:
A heart-wrenching and
ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the power
of love to see us through the darkest of times.
When Holocaust survivor
Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote
on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson,
Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old
Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself
that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the
camp. Now was her chance.
In Lily’s Promise she
writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother
and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her
determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity
of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. From there
she and her sisters became slave labour in a munitions factory, and then faced
a death march that they barely survived.
Lily
lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in
Israel and then in London. It wasn’t easy; the pain of her past was always with
her, but this extraordinary woman found the strength to speak out in the hope
that such evil would never happen again.
Born on this day – Viveca Lindfors:
Viveca Lindfors
Actress
Writer
Director
December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995
Born on this day – Jo Van Fleet:
Jo Van Fleet
Actress
December 29, 1915 – June 10, 1996
Credits:
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Sunset Strip (1963); 80 Steps to Jonah (1969); Actor's Studio (1949–1950); Alcoa
Theatre (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1961); American Masters (2005);
Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1955); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1967); Bonanza (1970–1971); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Cinderella
(1965); Colorspace Vol. 1 (2010); Cool Hand Luke (1967); Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951);
Danger (1954–1955); East of Eden (1955); East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005);
Encounter (1956); Frontier Circus (1962); General Electric Theater (1959); Great
Performances (1971); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Hollywood Heaven:
Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968); I'll
Cry Tomorrow (1955); Inner Sanctum (1954); James Dean's Lost Slideshow (2013); Kraft
Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1955–1956); Kraft Theatre / The Philco
Television Playhouse (1952–1955); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour
(1954); Mannix (1970); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1955); Medical Center
(1971–1973); Mod Squad (1970); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Naked
City (1962); NBC Experiment in Television (1967); Play of the Week (1960–1961);
Police Woman (1977); Power (1980); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Route 66
(1963); Satan's School for Girls (1973); Seize the Day (1986); Star Tonight
(1955); Summer Playhouse (1964); Suspense (1954); The 14th Annual Tony Awards
(1960); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 69th Annual Academy Awards
(1997); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959–1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The
Family Rico (1972); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
(1971); The King and Four Queens (1956); The Mask (1954); The Rose Tattoo (1955);
The Tenant (1976); The Virginian (1966); The Wild Wild West (1969); This Angry
Age (1958); Thriller (1961); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wild River
(1960).
Born on this day – George Marshall:
George Marshall
Actor
Writer
Producer
Director
December 29, 1891 – February 17,
1975
Credits:
Police Woman (1975); The
Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974); Hec Ramsey (1972); Cade's County (1972); Daniel
Boone (1964–1970); Here's Lucy (1969); Hook, Line and Sinker (1969); The Wicked
Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968); Eight on the Lam (1967); Tarzan (1966); Boy,
Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); Valentine's
Day (1964–1965); Advance to the Rear (1964); Dark Purpose (1964); Papa's
Delicate Condition (1963); How the West Was Won (1962); The Happy Thieves
(1961); Cry for Happy (1961); The Gazebo (1959); It Started with a Kiss (1959);
The Mating Game (1959); Imitation General (1958); The Sheepman (1958); The Sad
Sack (1957); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); Beyond Mombasa (1956); Pillars
of the Sky (1956); Cavalcade of America (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse
(1955); The Second Greatest Sex (1955); Destry (1954); Duel in the Jungle
(1954); Red Garters (1954); Money from Home (1953); Houdini (1953); Scared
Stiff (1953); Off Limits (1952); The Savage (1952); A Millionaire for Christy
(1951); Ace of Clubs (1951); Never a Dull Moment (1950); Fancy Pants (1950); My
Friend Irma (1949); Lust for Gold (1949); Tap Roots (1948); Hazard (1948); Variety
Girl (1947); The Perils of Pauline (1947); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); The Blue
Dahlia (1946); Hold That Blonde! (1945); Incendiary Blonde (1945); Murder, He
Says (1945); And the Angels Sing (1944); True to Life (1943); Riding High
(1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); The Forest Rangers (1942); Valley of the
Sun (1942); Texas (1941); Pot o' Gold (1941); When the Daltons Rode (1940); The
Ghost Breakers (1940); Destry Rides Again (1939); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
(1939); Hold That Co-ed (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Goldwyn Follies
(1938); Love Under Fire (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Can This Be
Dixie? (1936); The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936); A Message to Garcia (1936); Show
Them No Mercy! (1935); In Old Kentucky (1935); Music Is Magic (1935); $10 Raise
(1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); She Learned
About Sailors (1934); Wild Gold (1934); Ever Since Eve (1934); Call It Luck
(1934); The Big Fibber (1933); Husbands' Reunion (1933); Sweet Cookie (1933); Caliente
Love (1933); Easy on the Eyes (1933); Olsen's Big Moment (1933); Towed in a
Hole (1932); Their First Mistake (1932); The Soilers (1932); A Firehouse
Honeymoon (1932); Alum and Eve (1932); Pack Up Your Troubles (1932); The Old
Bull (1932); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932); Big
Dame Hunting (1932); He Loved Her Not (1931); Hey Diddle Diddle (1930); Uncle's
Visit (1929); Puckered Success (1929); Tomato Omelette (1929); Watch My Smoke (1929);
No Children (1929); Circus Time (1929); No Vacation (1929); Camping Out (1928);
No Sale Smitty (1928); No Picnic (1928); Gentlemen Prefer Scotch (1927); Girls
(1927); From a Cabby's Seat (1926); A Parisian Knight (1925); The Sky Jumper
(1925); The Big Game Hunter (1925); A Spanish Romeo (1925); The Burglar (1924);
Paul Jones, Jr. (1924); The Race (1924); The Hunt (1924); The Fight (1924); The
Back Trail (1924); Men in the Raw (1923); Where Is This West? (1923); Don
Quickshot of the Rio Grande (1923); The Haunted Valley (1923); West Is West (1922);
Smiles Are Trumps (1922); The Jolt (1921); The Lady from Longacre (1921); After
Your Own Heart (1921); A Ridin' Romeo (1921); Hands Off! (1921); Why Trust Your
Husband (1921); Prairie Trails (1920); Ruth of the Rockies (1920); Charlot,
Charlot! (1919); The Adventures of Ruth (1919); The Gun Runners (1919); The
Husband Hunter (1918); The Fast Mail (1918); Beating the Limited (1918); When
Paris Green Saw Red (1918); Naked Fists (1918); The Midnight Flyer (1918); Quick
Triggers (1918); The Man from Montana (1917); The Ninth Day (1917); Squaring It
(1917); Right of Way Casey (1917); Meet My Wife (1917); Double Suspicion (1917);
Swede Hearts (1917); The Honor of Men (1917); Casey's Border Raid (1917); Bill
Brennan's Claim (1917); The Desert Ghost (1917); The Raid (1917); Roped In (1917);
Border Wolves (1917); They Were Four (1917); The Comeback (1917); Won by Grit (1917);
The Devil's Own (1916); A Woman's Eyes (1916); Love's Lariat (1916); The
Committee on Credentials (1916); The Code of the Mounted (1916); Across the Rio
Grande (1916); The Waiters' Ball (1916); And the Best Man Won (1915).
Recommended reading - Street with No Name (2021)
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Street with No Name
A History of the Classic American Film Noir
By Andrew Dickos.
Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Published 2021.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0813152194
ISBN-13: 978-0813152196
Description:
"The best book available on the genre of movies set in
the dark, wet streets of the urban US." – Choice.
"A concrete, concise study of noir against an
impressive historical vista that brings to light the complex relation between
alienation and obsession that makes up these films." – Rain Taxi Review.
"Dickos provides a sharp critical and psychological
evaluation of a genre that continues to mutate long after many pronounced it
dead." – Shepherd Express.
Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film
noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French
cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir
in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development
expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the
film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters
of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings,
these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes
predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human
weakness and fate.
Unlike other studies of the noir, Street with No Name
follows its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain
noir directors with those features in their films that helped define the scope
of the genre. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz
Lang, Otto Preminger, and Robert Siodmak. He also charts the genre's influence
on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois
Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard.
Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political,
and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name
demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent
mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on reading:
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life.
Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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