Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
On this day in music history - Signature Synchronicity by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2016):
Signature Synchronicity
Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,released March 18, 2016.
Track
list:
Ceremony;
Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible; Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Grace
(Chill Version); Signature; From the Mist; Little Star.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
On this day in movie history - 9 Rides (2016):
9 Rides
directed and written
by Matthew A. Cherry,
was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival
in the United States on March 11, 2016.
Music by Donald Hayes.
Dorian Missick, Omar J. Dorsey, Robinne Lee, Xosha
Roquemore, Amin Joseph, Thomas Q. Jones, Skye P. Marshall, Aasha Davis, Tracie
Thoms, Andra Fuller, Sujata Day, Nadine Ellis, Frank Califano, Dominique
Columbus, Alice Ensor, Malcolm Matthews, Jake McLean, Brittany Richards, Capri
Sampson, Kayla Smith, Tiffany Snow.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
On this day in movie history - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016):
10 Cloverfield Lane
directed by Dan Trachtenberg,
written by Josh Campbell, Matt
Stuecken and Damien Chazelle,
based on a story by Josh Campbell, Matt
Stuecken,
was released in the United States on March 8, 2016.
Music by Bear McCreary.
Cast:
John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John
Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin, Suzanne Cryer, Bradley Cooper, Sumalee
Montano, Frank Mottek, Kayla Bechor.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
On this day in music history - Celtic Fairy Lullaby, by 2002 (2016):
Celtic Fairy Lullaby
Album by 2002,
released February 19,
2016.
Track
list:
Seoithín
Seo HÓ (Hushaby, Hush) / Gartan Mother's Lullaby; Cariad; BÍ Thusa 'Mo Shúile
(Be Thou My Vision); Away from the Roll of the Sea; Éamonn An Chnoic (Ned of
the Hills); HÓ Bha in (Sleep My Child); Bánchnoic Éireann Ó (The Fair Hills of
Ireland); Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night); Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant
Darling); My Singing Bird; Buachaill ÓN Éirne (Boy from the River Erne); Thugamar
Féin An Samhradh Linn (We Brought the Summer with Us).
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Adulterers (2015) - free will ... and its consequences:
Adulterers
Adulterers is a cautionary tale, a powerful
drama inspired by true events, and far more compelling than the contrived Fatal Attraction (1987) and Unfaithful (2002).
How you feel at the
end of Adulterers may depend on your personal
experience of the subject it deals with.
It’s right there in the title.
If you’ve
ever been cheated on by your significant other – then this movie might sting.
If
you have cheated on your significant other – then this movie should rightly
sting if you have any conscience and sense of guilt about the choice you made.
Consequences
for making the wrong choice is the theme unflinchingly examined in this movie, released in the United States on January 5, 2016, written, produced and directed by H.M. Coakley.
Lead actor, Sean Farris threw
himself into this role of a betrayed husband.
We see the anguish of his character,
his pain, regret, broken heart, broken life, and ultimately broken mind.
Sean Farris
is Samuel, a store assistant, working extra hours during a sweltering New Orleans
afternoon.
It’s his first wedding anniversary; a special day in any marriage.
Samuel
is a proud and happy man, deeply in love with his wife, Ashley (Danielle Savre).
He regrets having to work so many hours and laments at their lack of money, but
he plans on making it up to Ashley.
He swings by his home halfway through his
day, carrying his wife’s favorite flowers and chocolates.
Besides their money
troubles, all seems right with Samuel’s world until he catches Ashley and her
lover, Damien (Mehcad Brooks), naked, having sex in the bedroom.
Devastated, Samuel
shoots them both.
This is not a spoiler; it happens within the first twelve
minutes.
Downstairs, he sits on the couch, and drinks whiskey straight from the bottle.
Suffering a psychological break, he rethinks the situation.
This time, in
his imagination, he doesn’t pull the trigger.
What if I’d waited instead of acting on impulse?
What would I say to
them?
How far would I go to punish them?
What would they say to justify their
sin, or lie their way out of the situation?
These questions are the basis
for the imagined trial and torture he puts his wife and her lover through in
that stifling room.
As Samuel struggles with the pain of betrayal and
infidelity, the wedding ring, crucifix and Bible often the focus of the camera,
he struggles with his faith.
Finally, as Samuel himself points out:
"You ain't sorry. You're just sorry that you got caught. It's time that you dealt with the consequences of your actions."
In forcing them to face the consequences of their actions, Samuel is then left to face the consequences of his own.
There are no winners in this story; everyone is destroyed.
Adultery …
it’s all fun and games ... until you get caught!
Recommended reading - Into the Dark (2016):
Into the Dark
The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
By Mark A. Vieira.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
Published by Running Press Adult.
Illustrated edition.
Published 2016.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0762455233
ISBN-13: 978-0762455232
Description:
Bursting with glossy stills and archival material, film
historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira's Into The Dark: The Hidden World
of Film Noir, 1941-1950 offers an unprecedented portal into Hollywood's
golden era of cynicism. A systematic study of noir, this gorgeous coffee table
tome fills a significant gap in scholarship on the genre.” – MovieMaker.
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting;
the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the
Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling
photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
Into the Dark is the first book to
tell the story of film noir in its own voice. Author Mark A. Vieira quotes the
artists who made these movies and the journalists and critics who wrote about
them, taking readers on a year-by-year tour of the exciting nights when movies
like Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Sunset Boulevard
were sprung on an unsuspecting public. For the first time, we hear the voices
of film noir artists speak from the sets and offices of the studios, explaining
the dark genre, even before it had a name. Those voices tell how the genre was
born and how it thrived in an industry devoted to sweetness and light.
Into the Dark is a ticket to a smoky,
glamorous world. You enter a story conference with Raymond Chandler, visit the
set of Laura, and watch Detour with a Midwest audience. This
volume recreates the environment that spawned film noir. It also displays the
wit and warmth of the genre's artists. Hedda Hopper reports on Citizen Kane,
calling Orson Welles "Little Orson Annie." Lauren Bacall says she
enjoys playing a bad girl in To Have and Have Not. Bosley Crowther calls
Joan Crawford in Possessed a "ghost wailing for a demon lover
beneath a waning moon." An Indiana exhibitor rates the classic Murder,
My Sweet a "passable program picture." Illustrated by hundreds of
rare still photographs, Into the Dark conveys the mystery, glamour, and
irony that make film noir surpassingly popular.
About TCM:
Turner Classic Movies is the definitive resource
for the greatest movies of all time. We entertain and enlighten to show how the
entire spectrum of classic movies, movie history, and movie-making touches us
all and influences how we think and live today.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Recommended reading - Film Noir Compendium (2016)
Film Noir Compendium
Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
By Alain Silver and
James Ursini.
Published 2016.
Published by Limelight.
Illustrated edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1495058980
ISBN-13: 978-1495058981
Description:
In
this essential study of film noir, editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select
the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly
respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single, convenient,
heavily illustrated volume. Still included, of course, are many rare early
articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's “Towards a Definition
of Film Noir” from Panorama du Film Noir Americain, Paul Schrader's “Notes on
Film Noir ” and “Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir” by Raymond
Durgnat. With newer studies such as “Lounge Time” by Vivian Sobchack,
“Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films” by Sheri Chinen Biesen, and
“Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama” J. P. Telotte, this collection
of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from
varying angles: formalist, feminist, structuralist, sociological, and
stylistic; narrative-thematic historical, and even from the point of view of a
pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee
of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for
academics planning a syllabus, it can serve as the most complete core text for
any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
On this day in movie history - Fences (2016):
Fences
directed by Denzel
Washington,
written by August Wilson,
based on the play by August Wilson,
was
released in the United States on December 25, 2016.
Music by Marcelo Zarvos.
Denzel Washington, Viola
Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti
Williamson, Saniyya Sidney, Christopher Mele, Lesley Boone, Jason Silvis, Toussaint
Raphael Abessolo, Gregory Bromfield, Hanibal Chancellor, Cara Clark, Tra’Waan Coles,
Sean Cummings, Ellwood Davis, DieselDonlow, Mark Falvo, Joe Fishel, Kristie
Galloway, Carlos Gonzalez, John W. Iwanonkiw, Floyd Jackson, Daniel James, Aristle
Jones IV, Trudi Kennedy, Malik Abdul Khaaliq, Connie Kincer, Ashley Marie Lewis,
Cecily Lewis, Wayne Leya, Frank McAleavey, Chris McCail, Terri Middleton, Kelly
L. Moran, Mike Nardi, Phil Nardozzi, Frankie Palombi, Kameron Peters, Eric
Rasmussen, Dillon Stark, Brian E. Stead, Will Tolliver Jr.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
On this day in music history - My Piano Dolce Vita: A Journey Across Italian Soundtracks, by Olivia Belli (2016):
The album My Piano
Dolce Vita: A Journey Across Italian Soundtracks,
by Olivia Belli,
was
released on December 1, 2016.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
On this day in movie history - Nocturnal Animals (2016):
Nocturnal Animals
directed and written by Tom Ford,
based on the novel Tony
and Susan by Austin Wright,
was released in the United States on November 23,
2016.
Music by Abel Korzeniowski.
Amy Adams, Jake
Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen, Bobbi
Menuez, Zawe Ashton, Jena Malone, Neil Jackson, Kristin Bauer, Michael Shannon,
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Ellie Bamber, Karl Glusman, Robert Aramayo, Graham
Beckel.
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