On this day in music history:

American VI: Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash (2010)

Intermundia by Olivia Belli (2024)

American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Album by Johnny Cash,

released February 23, 2010.

Track list: Ain't No Grave; Redemption Day; For the Good Times; I Corinthians 15:55; Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound; Satisfied Mind; I Don't Hurt Anymore; Cool Water; Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream; Aloha Oe.

Intermundia

Album by Olivia Belli,

released February 23, 2024.

Track list: Anima I; Bet Ha-Chaim; Respiro 1; Valadier; Diomedea; Respiro 2; Mirando; Anima II; Pian Perduto; Respiro 3; Amber Maze; Frater; Respiro 4; Sibyl.

On this day in movie history - Shutter Island (2010 movie & novel):

Shutter Island

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Laeta Kalogridis,

based on the novel by Dennis Lehane,

was released in the United States on February 19, 2010.

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, John Carroll Lynch, Ted Levine, Elias Koteas, Ruby Jerins, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham.

Recommended reading:

Shutter Island

By Dennis Lehane.

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks.

First published 2003.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062068415

ISBN-13: 978-0062068415

Description:

“Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride…utterly absorbing… is an express train with no local stops…engrossing.” – Boston Globe.

“The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.” – Miami Herald.

“Combines the claustrophobia of . . . Agatha Christie . . . with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. . . . Good luck putting this one down. – San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

“Startlingly original…instantly cinematic… unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.” – New York Times.

“There is no mystery…about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a tour de force.” – Publishers Weekly.

“A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller…sure to be the most talked–about thriller of the year.” – Kirkus Reviews.

“Nightmarish…it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.” – Orlando Sentinel.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades – with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

On this day in movie history - Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010 movie & books):

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Directors: Victor Cook, Mike Disa, Sangjin Kim, Lee Seung-Gyu, Shukou Murase, Jong-Sik Nam, Yasoumi Umetsu.

Written by Brandon Auman.

Based on the video game by Jonathan Knight.

Inspired by the poem Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri.

Music by Christopher Tin.

Released in the United States on February 9, 2010.

Cast: Graham McTavish, Vanessa Branch, Steve Blum, Peter Jessop, Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant, Bart McCarthy, Kevin Michael Richardson, JP Karliak, Tom Tate, J. Grant Albrecht, Nika Futterman, Charlotte Cornwell, Vanessa Marshall, Grey DeLisle, H. Richard Greene, Greg Ellis, Shelley O'Neill, Nicholas Guest, Steve Apostolina, Wendy E. Cutler, Lia Sargent, Mark Sussman, Dave Zyler.

Recommended reading:

The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso

By Dante Alighieri.

Translated by John Ciardi.

Published by Berkley.

Originally published 1321.

This edition published 2003.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0451208633

ISBN-13: 978-0451208637

Description:

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso – together in one volume.

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise – the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

Now, for the first time, John Ciardi’s brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante’s three soaring canticles – The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso – have been gathered together in a single volume. Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet’s immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity.

Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By Dante Alighieri.

Illustrated by Paul Brizzi and Gaëtan Brizzi.

Published by Harry N. Abrams.

Published 2024.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1419776754

ISBN-13: 978-1419776755

Description:

Acclaimed animators Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi adapt Dante’s literary classic Inferno in the sweeping, dramatic style that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia 2000 to life.

Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material. Likewise, adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios.

Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter.

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity.

Each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself.

On this day in movie history - Temple Grandin (2010 movie & books):

Temple Grandin

directed by Mick Jackson,

written by Christopher Monger, Merritt Johnson,

based on the books:

Emergence by Temple Grandin & Margaret Scariano

&

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin,

released in the United States on February 6, 2010.

Music by Alex Wurman.

Cast: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara, Stephanie Faracy, Barry Tubb, Melissa Farman, Steve Shearer, Richard Dillard, Jenna Elizabeth Hughes, Michael Crabtree, Charles Baker, David Born, Rutherford Cravens, Matthew Posey, Toby Metcalf, Cyndi Williams, Steve Uzzell, Rick Espaillat, Jim Flowers, Michael D. Conway, William Akey, Kristin McCollum, Penny Reeves, Chris Olson, Joe Nemmers, Gerry Robert Byrne, Aaron Johnson, Jacquejoy Littlefield, Cherami Leigh, John Rawley, Phil Harrington, Cassandra L. Small, Robert Newell, Jessica Looney / Jessica Wilson, Cynthia Huerta, Ken Webster, Carl Savering, Brady Coleman, Butch Anderson, Megan Moser, Chloë Evans, Blair Bomar, Xochitl Romero, Tamara Jolaine, David Blackwell, Shiela Bailey Lucas, Wally Welch, Marissa Joy Davis, Cheryl Wheeler Duncan, Michael Costello, Brian Bentley, Diane Perella, Blake Duncan, Marvin D. Yeaman, Clark Perry, Nolan Bennett, Patrick Bertucci, Kelli Bland, Fred Bothwell, Kelsey Buchanan, D.J. Castillo, Cheryl Cave, Kurt Cole, Richard Dodwell, David L. Dunn, Michelangelo Flores, Mike Gassaway, Brett Hill, Mark Holliway, Christopher Holt, Nicole Holt, David Houston, David Howard, Diane Howard, Helen Myslinski Ingham, Marc Isaacs, Max W. Jenkins, Andrew Kantowski, Floyd Lloyd, Gabriel Luna, Adam Maurer, James Leonardo Mayberry, Rachel McDaniel, Chad McMinn, Jake Messinger, Amy L. Mitchell, Travis Mitchell, Michael Muenchow Rivera, Joe Nelson, Earl Nottingham, Randall 'Red' Payne, Vincent James Prendergast, Dean Reading, Landon Reid, Mike Rembis, Silver Renee, Darren Scharf, Jordan Strassner, Britten Thacker, Leo Trombetta, Hailey Tuck, Debbi Tucker, Allison Wood.

Recommended reading:

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

By Temple Grandin & Margaret Scariano.

Published by Grand Central Publishing.

First published 1986.

ASIN: B00C6OJJLE

Description:

Childhood memories -- Early school days -- New worries -- Forgettable days at junior high -- Boarding school -- The door -- The magical device -- Through the little door -- Graduate school and the glass door barrier -- Through the sliding glass door -- Working -- coping -- surviving -- Autistics and the real world.

A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

By Temple Grandin.

Foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Expanded and Illustrated edition.

Published by Vintage.

First published 1995.

ISBN-10: 0307275655

ISBN-13: 9780307275653

Description:

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity.

On this day in movie history - The Book of Eli (2010):

The Book of Eli

directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes,

written by Gary Whitta,

was released in the United States on January 15, 2010.
Music by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne.

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Chris Browning, Richard Cetrone, Lateef Crowder, Keith Splinter Davis, Don Thai Theerathada, Thom Khoury Williams, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Scott Wilder, Heidi Pascoe, Jennifer Caputo, Eddie Perez, Spencer Sano, Karin Silvestri, Mike Gunther, John Koyama, Mike McCarty, Scott Michael Morgan, Sala Baker, Arron Shiver, Justin Tade, Mike Seal, Richard A. Smith, Paul Crawford, Ed Duran, David Wald, Jermaine Washington, Kofi Elam, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Al Goto, Brad Martin, Tim Rigby, Luis Bordonada, Robert Powell, Angelique Midthunder, Todd Schneider, Darrin Prescott, Laurence Chavez, Brian Neal Lucero, David Midthunder, Steve Blacksmith, Joe Cabezuela, Vivi Devereaux, Christopher Fodge, David J. Goldfarb, Jo King, Josiah D. Lee, Gregory Leiker, Malcolm McDowell, Levi Nolasco, Francisco Peramos, Frank Powers, David T. Quan, Jason Rice, Daniel Teller, Mario Telles.

On this day in movie history - Blue Valentine (2010):

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.

Cast:

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.