Showing posts with label 1995. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1995. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995):
Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
Anthology by Raymond
Chandler.
Edited by Frank MacShane.
Published 1995.
ISBN-10: 1883011078
ISBN-13: 978-1883011079
Contents:
Pulp Stories:
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish
Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King
in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting.
Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note
on the texts. Notes.
Description:
In Raymond Chandler’s
hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption,
set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring
sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out
of the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the
crime novel and American writing.
Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great
creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The
Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s
investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest
reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians,
lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black
Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble
Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other
Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s
greatest mystery writer.
The
Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works
of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring
authoritative texts.
Friday, July 11, 2025
On this day in music history - Music by Ry Cooder, by Ry Cooder (1995):
Music by Ry Cooder
Album by Ry Cooder,
released July 11, 1995.
Track list:
Paris,
Texas; Theme From Southern Comfort; Theme From Alamo Bay; Across The Borderline;
Highway 23; Bomber Bash; Greenhouse; Nice Bike; I Like Your Eyes; Main Theme; See
You In Hell, Blind Boy; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Swamp Walk; Angola; Viola Lee Blues;
The Long Riders; Archie’s Funeral (Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand); Jesse James;
King Of The Street; Sunny’s Tune; No Quiero; Cruising With Rafe; Klan Meeting; I
Can’t Walk This Time/The Prestige; East St. Louis; Goose and Lucky; Goyakla Is
Coming; Canoes Upstream; Cancion Mixteca; Maria; Bound For Canaan (Sieber and
Davis); Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary); Train To Florida; Houston In Two
Seconds.
Friday, June 27, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
On this day in movie history - Apollo 13 (1995):
Apollo 13
directed by Ron Howard,
written by William Broyles Jr.
and Al Reinert,
based on the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey
Kluger,
released June 22, 1995.
Music by James Horner.
Cast:
Tom
Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary
Kate Schellhardt, Emily Ann Lloyd, Miko Hughes, Max Elliott Slade, Jean Speegle
Howard, Tracy Reiner, David Andrews, Michele Little, Chris Ellis, Joe Spano,
Xander Berkeley.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
On this day in movie history - American Cinema (1995–1996):
American Cinema
13-episode documentary
series that ran from June 7, 1995 – August 22, 1996.
Episode
titles: The Hollywood Style; The Studio System; The Star; The Western; Romantic
Comedy; The Combat Film; Film Noir; Film in the Television Age; The Film School
Generation; The Edge of Hollywood; Film Language; Writing and Thinking about
Film; Classic Hollywood Style Today.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
On this day in music history: Takin' a Stand, by Deborah Coleman (1995):
Takin’ a Stand
Album by Deborah Coleman,released June 1, 1995.
Track list:
Evil Gal’s Daughter; Missin’ You; Don’t Talk
About Love; Takin’ A Stand; I Believe; Moanin’ The Blues; I Cry; What Should I
Do; Can’t Leave The Blues; Them Changes; Changes Revisited.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Recommended reading - Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995):
Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
Edited by Bill Pronzini
& Jack Adrian.
Published by Oxford
University Press.
Published 1995.
First Edition.
ISBN-10: 0195084993
ISBN-13: 978-0195084993
Description:
Compellingly
and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime
Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included
are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of
this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during
the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1930s,
to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally
leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy.
Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and
mayhem: from Hammett’s 1925 tour de force “The Scorched Face,” to Ed Gorman’s
1992 “The Long Silence After,” Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better
known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew
Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Containing many notable rarities, Hard-Boiled
celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American Literature and
film, but how we see our heroes and ourselves.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
On this day in movie history - Dead Man (1995):
Dead Man
directed and written by Jim
Jarmusch,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 27,
1995.
Music by Neil Young.
Johnny Depp, Mili Avital,
Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John
Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark
Bringelson, John North, Peter Schrum, Mike Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle
Thrush, Gibby Haynes, Richard Boes, George Duckworth, Thomas Bettles, Alfred
Molina, Daniel Chas Stacy, Todd Pfeiffer, Leonard Bowechop, Cecil Cheeka, Michael
McCarty, Steve Buscemi, John C. Carlucci.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
On this day in movie history - Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995):
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
directed
by Joyce Chopra,
written by Derek Marlowe, Dennis
Turner and Les Carter,
inspired by the autobiography
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan,
was released in the
United States on May 8, 1995.
Music by Patrick Williams.
Monday, May 5, 2025
On this day in movie history - Anne Frank Remembered (1995):
Anne Frank Remembered
directed and written by Jon Blair,
based on the diary of
Anne Frank,
was released in the United States on May 5, 1995.
Music by Carl Davis.
Narrated by Kenneth
Branagh.
Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos,
Kenneth Branagh, Janny Brandes-Brilslijper, Glenn Close, Rose De Liema, Sal De
Liema, Buddy Elias, Bloeme Evers, Alice Frank, Anne Frank, Helene Frank, Margot
Frank, Otto Frank, Robert Frank, Miep Gies, Kitty Gokkel-Egyedi, Hanneli Goslar,
Abraham Holländer, Charlotte Kaletta, Juultje Ketellapper, Nelson Mandela, Frieda
Menco, Laureen Nussbaum, Peter Pepper, Werner Peter Pfeffer, Hannah Pick-Goslar,
Joely Richardson, Rosa Stern, Rie Swillens, Rachel Van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Henk
van Beersekamp, Martha van den Berg, Lucie van Dijk, Jacqueline van Maarsen, Elisabeth
van Wijk-Voskuijl, Hans Wijnberg, Edith Frank, Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor
Kugler, Fritz Pfeffer, Auguste van Pels, Herman van Pels, Peter van Pels.
Monday, April 28, 2025
On this day in movie history - The Underneath (1995):
The Underneath
directed by Steven
Soderbergh,
written by Sam Lowry and Daniel
Fuchs,
based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy,
was released in the
United States on April 28, 1995.
Music by Cliff Martinez.
Peter Gallagher, Alison
Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese, Joe Don Baker, Paul Dooley, Shelley
Duvall, Elisabeth Shue, Anjanette Comer, Dennis Hill, Harry Goaz, Mark Feltch, Jules
Sharp, Kenneth D. Harris, Cliff Haby, Tonie Perensky, Randall Brady, Richard
Linklater, Helen Cates, Kevin Crutchfield, Brad Leland, John Martin, C.K.
McFarland, Rick Perkins, Paul Wright, David Jensen, Jordy Hultberg, Steve
Shearer, Fred Ellis, Joe Chrest, David L. Carter, Cowboy Mouth (band), Mike
Enright, Mark Hanson, Matthew Hurley, Mike Malone, Christopher K. Philippo, Ryan
Wickerham.
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