On this day in television history: Six Feet Under (2001):

Six Feet Under

created by Alan Ball,

was first aired in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ran for five seasons.

The final episode aired on August 21, 2005.

Cast:

Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Rachel Griffiths, Jeremy Sisto, James Cromwell, Justina Machado, Richard Jenkins, Joanna Cassidy, Giancarlo Rodriguez, Tim Maculan, Eric Balfour, Robert Foxworth, Ed O'Ross, Marina Black, David Norona, Gary Hershberger, Ed Begley, Jr., Illeana Douglas, Dina Waters, Patricia Clarkson, Lili Taylor, Melissa Marsala, Aysia Polk, John Paul Pitoc, Kellie Waymire, Nicki Micheaux, Julie White, Kathy Bates, Peter Macdissi, Ben Foster, Brenna Tosh, Rainn Wilson, Justin Theroux, Idalis DeLeón, Catherine O'Hara, Sprague Grayden, Peter Facinelli, Mena Suvari, Michael Weston, Tina Holmes, Matt Malloy, Julie Dretzin, Jeff Yagher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Messina, Kendré Berry, C. J. Sanders, Anne Ramsay.

On this day in movie history - Easy Money (2000):

Easy Money

French title: Argent content,

directed by Philippe Dussol,

was released in France on May 31, 2001.
18-minute short movie, filmed in color and black and white.
Written by Philippe Dussol and Mathias Pothier.

Cast:

Anne Charrier, Fred Dussol, Philippe Dussol.

Recommended reading - Kubrick: The Definitive Edition, by Michel Ciment (2001):

Kubrick: The Definitive Edition

By Michel Ciment.

Published by Faber & Faber.

Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 0571199860

ISBN-13: 978-0571199860

Description:

"Michel Ciment's Kubrick: The Definitive Edition remains the best work on the great director. Through it we get a glimpse into a working method that was unique in the cinema. It is a fascinating blend of interviews and analysis." – Joel Coen.

"This final edition of Michel Ciment's definitive book is an invaluable resource." – Martin Scorsese.

If Stanley Kubrick had made only 2001: A Space Odyssey or Dr. Strangelove, his cinematic legacy would have been assured. But from his first feature film, Fear and Desire, to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick created an accomplished body of work unique in its scope, diversity, and artistry, and by turns both lauded and controversial.

In this fully revised and definitive edition of his now classic study, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick’s thirteen films --- including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket --- alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay. Rounding out this unique work are a short biography of Kubrick; rare interviews that were held with the usually reticent director, as well as with cast and crew members, including Malcolm McDowell, Shelley Duvall, and Jack Nicholson; and a detailed filmography and bibliography.

Meshed with masterful integrity, the book’s text and illustrations pay homage to one of the most visionary, original, and demanding filmmakers of our time.

On this day in music history:

Livin’ on Love by Deborah Coleman (2001)

Strength & Serenity - Flute & Piano by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2020)

Livin’ on Love

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released May 22, 2001.

Track list: Livin’ On Love; You’re With Me; Light Of Day; Memory Lane; Crazy; Bending Like A Willow Tree; Happy When You’re Unhappy; Don’t Talk In My Sleep; Heaven’s Got The Blues; Torn In Two; Deserted Highway.

Strength & Serenity - Flute & Piano

Album by Greg Maroney and Sherry Finzer,

released May 22, 2020.

Track list: Sleeping Fields; Plum Trees; Softly Rise; Gossamer Dream; Greeting the Spirit; Diaphanous Dawn; Golden Serenity; Ever Elusive; Distant Glow.

On this day in television history - Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 miniseries & books):

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

a two-part TV miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm,

written by Kirk Ellis,

based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller,

was released in the United States on May 20, 2001.

Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Ben Kingsley, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Brenda Blethyn, Lili Taylor, Jessica Manley, Carly Wijs, Tatjana Blacher, Jean-Luc Julien, Joachim Król, Nicholas Audsley, Jan Niklas, Peter Bolhuis, Victoria Anne Brown, Jeff Caster, Rob Das, Cees Geel, Holger Daemgen, Michaela Horáková, Johannes Silberschneider, Jade Williams, Branka Katic, Klára Issová, Karel Dobrý, Veronika Nowag-Jones, Nancy Bishop, Dominique Horwitz, Suzanne Friedline, Pavel Kríz, Petra Lustigová, Joel Kirby, Robert Russell, David O’Kelly, Petr Meissel, Yanna Fabian, Zdenka Volencová, Howard Lotker, Michael E. Perry, Phil Jones, Nicky Kantor, Jaroslava Siktancova, Jelena Juklová, Jan Klíma, Lisa-Marie Gravell, Ela Lehotská, Olga Schmidtová, Kristina Beranova, Talya Gordon, Alec Gordon.

Recommended reading:

Anne Frank: The Biography:

Updated and Expanded with New Material

By Melissa Müller.

Published by Metropolitan Books.

Published 2013.

ISBN-10: 0805087311

ISBN-13: 978-0805087314

Description:

Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become "the human face of the Holocaust." For this nuanced portrait of her famous subject, biographer Melissa Müller drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends as well as on previously unavailable correspondence, even, in the process, discovering five missing diary pages. Full of revelations, Müller's richly textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting. Now, fifteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate. Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.

The Diary

By Anne Frank.

Published by Turtleback Books.

First published 1948.

ISBN-10: 1417643099

ISBN-13: 9781417643097

Description:

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl – stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known.

On this day in movie history - James Ellroy's Feast of Death (2001):

James Ellroy's Feast of Death

documentary directed by Vikram Jayanti,

was released in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2001.
Music by Rob Lane.

Cast:

James Ellroy, Rick Jackson, Brian M. Carr, Mike Berchem, Eric J. Mosher, Tim Marcia, David Lambkin, Paul W. Coulter, William Stoner, Ray Peavy, Frank Merriman, Rey Verdugo, Louis D. Danoff, Nick Nolte, Helen Knode, Larry Harnisch, Karen Hilliker, Janet T. Klock, M. Brian Klock, Mindy Klock, Elizabeth Short, Ron Riekki.

On this day in music history:

Trouble in Shangri-La by Stevie Nicks (2001)

Out of the Darkness by Michele McLaughlin (2010)

Trouble in Shangri-La

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released May 1, 2001.

Track list: Trouble In Shangri-La; Candlebright; Sorcerer; Planets Of The Universe; Every Day; Too Far From Texas; That Made Me Stronger; It's Only Love; Love Changes; I Miss You; Bombay Sapphires; Fall From Grace; Love Is.

Out of the Darkness

Album by Michele McLaughlin,

released May 1, 2010.

Track list: Forsake; The Descent; Indignation; Forbearance; Out of the Darkness; So Long Mr. Selfish; Transformation; Perseverance; Finding Solace in Friends; New Light; In the Stillness of Peace; Rejoice; So Long Mr. Selfish.

On this day in movie history - Amélie (2001):

Amélie

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

written by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

was released in France on April 25, 2001.
Music by Yann Tiersen.

Cast:

Audrey Tautou, Flora Guiet, Mathieu Kassovitz, Amaury Babault, André Dussollier, Rufus, Serge Merlin, Lorella Cravotta, Clotilde Mollet, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Jamel Debbouze, Maurice Bénichou, Kevin Fernandes, Michel Robin, Andrée Damant, Claude Perron, Armelle, Ticky Holgado, Fabienne Chaudat.

On this day in movie history - The Hole (2001):

The Hole

directed by Nick Hamm,

written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip,

based on the novel After the Hole by Guy Burt,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2001.
Music by Clint Mansell.

Cast:

Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz, Steven Waddington, Emma Griffiths Malin, Jemma Powell, Gemma Craven, Anastasia Hille, Kelly Hunter, Maria Pastel, Celia Montague, Kevin Trainor, Lolita Chakrabarti, Claire Fox, Jennifer Hockman, Jack Tanner.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (2001)

Star Trek: Discovery (2019 & 2024)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Q2.

Released April 11, 2001.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert Doherty, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Keegan de Lancie, Manu Intiraymi, Michael Kagan, Lorna Raver, John de Lancie, Anthony Holiday, Scott Davidson, Majel Barrett, Michael Bailous, David Campagna, Tarik Ergin, Alicia Lewis, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Keith Rayve, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 2. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Such Sweet Sorrow.

Released April 11, 2019.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Shazad Latif, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, Jayne Brook, James Frain, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Mia Kirshner, Tig Notaro, Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, Sonja Sohn, Alan Van Sprang, Rachael Ancheril, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Julianne Grossman, Samora Smallwood, Hanneke Talbot, Chai Valladares, Nicole Dickinson, Avaah Blackwell, Ante Dekovic.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 5. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Jinaal.

Released April 11, 2024.

Directed by Andi Armaganian.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kyle Jarrow, Lauren Wilkinson, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco, Eric J. Robbins.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, Callum Keith Rennie, Tig Notaro, David Ajala, Annabelle Wallis, Tara Rosling, Eve Harlow, Ian Alexander, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Victoria Sawal, Natalie Liconti, Christina Dixon, Raven Dauda, Andreas Apergis, Clare Coulter, Ingrid Rae Doucet, Glen Michael Grant, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles.

On this day in movie history - Blow (2001):

Blow

directed by Ted Demme,

written by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes,

based on the book by Bruce Porter,

was released in the United States on March 29, 2001.
Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Miguel Sandoval, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta, Kevin Gage, Max Perlich, Jesse James, Miguel Pérez, Dan Ferro, Tony Amendola, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Tucci, Monet Mazur, Lola Glaudini, Jennifer Gimenez, Emma Roberts, Jaime King.