On this day in movie history - Minority Report (2002):

Minority Report

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen,

based on the novella The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 21, 2002.
Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw, Richard Coca, Keith Campbell, Kirk B.R. Woller, Klea Scott, Frank Grillo, Anna Maria Horsford, Sarah Simmons, Eugene Osment, James Henderson, Vene L. Arcoraci, Erica Ford, Keith Flippen, Nathan Taylor, Radmar Agana Jao, Karina Logue, Elizabeth Anne Smith, Victoria Kelleher, Jim Rash, Colin Farrell, Stephen Ramsey, Tom Choi, Tom Whitenight, William Morts, Samantha Morton, Daniel London, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Lois Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, George D. Wallace, Ann Ryerson, Kathryn Morris, Tyler Patrick Jones, Dominic Scott Kay, Arye Gross, Ashley Crow, Mike Binder, Joel Gretsch, Jessica Harper, Bertell Lawrence, Jason Antoon, William Mesnik, Scott Frank, Severin Wunderman, Max Trumpower, Allie Raye, Rocael Leiva, Nicholas Edwin Barb, Catfish Bates, Peter Stormare, Caroline Lagerfelt, Danny Parker-Lopes, Vanessa Cedotal, Katy Boyer, Adrianna Kamosa, Kari Gordon, Elizabeth Kamosa, Raquel Gordon, Laurel Kamosa, Fiona Hale, Pamela Roberts, Clement Blake, Jerry Perchesky, Victor Raider-Wexler, Nancy Linehan Charles, Nadia Axakowsky, Dude Walker, Tony Hill, Drakeel Burns, William Mapother, Morgan Hasson, Andrew Sandler, Bonnie Morgan, Kathi Copeland, Ana Maria Quintana, Lucille M. Oliver, Gene Wheeler, Tonya Ivey, David Stifel, Kurt Sinclair, Rebecca Ritz, Beverly Morgan, John Bennett, Maureen Dunn, Ron Ulstad, Blake Bashoff, David Doty, Gina Gallego, David Hornsby, Anne Judson-Yager, Meredith Monroe, Benita Krista Nall, Shannon O’Hurley, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Elizabeth Payne, Ethan Sherman, Jarah Mariano, Miles Dinsmoor, Vanessa Asbert.

Recommended reading - A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953), by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton (2002):

A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

By Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton.

Translated from French by Paul Hammond.

Published by City Lights Publishers.

Published 2002.

ISBN-10: 087286412X

ISBN-13: 9780872864122

Description:

"...the book notes the influence of criminal psychology on film noir and how German Expressionism inspired directors..." – San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre: this clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is at last available in English translation.

A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir's dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.

Beginning with the first film noir, The Maltese Falcon, and continuing through the post war "glory days," which included such films as Gilda, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and The Lady from Shanghai, Borde and Chaumeton examine the dark sides of American society, film and literature that made film noir possible, even necessary.

A Panorama of American Film Noir includes a film noir chronology, a voluminous filmography, a comprehensive index and a selection of black-and-white production stills.

"Incredibly, this is the first English translation of the very influential 1955 French book that initially identified, described and assessed the Hollywood movies that we now term film noir . . . a seminal work of cinema description and analysis and therefore an essential purchase for most libraries." – From the Starred Review in Library Journal.

Raymond Borde (1920 - 2004), founder of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, wrote extensively on film history; among his short films is a study of the artist Pierre Molinier.

Etienne Chaumeton was the film critic of the Toulouse newspaper La Dépêche until his death.

On this day in music history - Hummingbird, by 2002 (2021):

Hummingbird

Album by 2002,

released June 11, 2021.

Track list:

Rainbow Cove; Walela; Gathering the Clouds; Sunlight in the Rain; Sacred Mountain; Through the Rainbow; Courting the Moon; Jasmine Rain; Wind Dancer; First Day of Spring.

On this day in music history - Where the Action Is..., by Sue Foley (2002):

Where the Action Is...

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 11, 2002.

Track list:

Where The Action Is; Vertigo Blues; Love Disease; Two Bluebirds; Stupid Girl; Let It Go; Every Hour; Baby Where Are You; Get Yourself Together; Roll With Me Henry; Down The Big Road Blues; Gotta Keep Moving.

On this day in movie history - Bubba Ho-Tep (2002):

Bubba Ho-Tep

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

based on a short story by Joe R. Lansdale,

was released at the CineVegas International Film Festival in the United States on June 9, 2002.

Music by Brian Tyler.

Cast:

Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Edith Jefferson, Larry Pennell, Reggie Bannister, Daniel Roebuck, Daniel Schweiger, Harrison Young, Linda Flammer, Cean Okada, Solange Morand, Karen Placencia, Bruce Rawitz, Joseph Primero, Chuck Williams, Timothy E. Goodwin, James Maley, Blaine Tyler, Steve Kassel, Damon Carruesco, Lief Frederick, Danny Crossen, Gigi Bannister, Emily Wengel, Naveed Mahboobian, Omid Naimi, Joseph C. Boulder, Virginia Brown, Celia Gill, Harvey Flammer, Sylvia Flammer, Ruth Hansen, Mary Rose Waken, Natasha Kurtz, Avery Taylor, Nadia Angelini, Aaron Beebe, Gabi Ferrer, Regina Pope, Brian Razzano, André Sogliuzzo.

On this day in movie history - Insomnia (2002):

Insomnia

directed by Christopher Nolan,

written by Hillary Seitz,

was released in the United States on May 24, 2002.
A remake of Insomnia (1997), direct by Erik Skjoldbjærg.
Music by David Julyan.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Martin Donovan, Oliver ‘Ole’ Zemen, Hilary Swank, Paul Dooley, Nicky Katt, Larry Holden, Jay Brazeau, Lorne Cardinal, James Hutson, Andrew Campbell, Paula Shaw, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Tasha Simms, Maura Tierney, Jonathan Jackson, Malcolm Boddington, Katharine Isabelle, Robin Williams, Kerry Sandomirsky, Chris Gauthier, Ian Tracey, Kate Robbins, Emily Perkins, Dean Wray.