On this day in movie history - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019):

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

a documentary directed and written by April Wright,

was released in the United States on October 10, 2019.
Music by Chris Wormer.

Cast:

Richard L. Fosbrink, Bob Boin, Jerald Gray, Matt Lambros, Leonard Maltin, Ross Melnick, Craig Morrison, Escott O. Norton, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns, David Strohmaier, Barbara Twist, Charles Chaplin, Jack Cushing, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, Al Jolson, Bruce Lee, Vivien Leigh, Mike Leonard, Mary Pickford, Theodore Roosevelt, S.L. Rothafel, Mack Sennett, Barbara Stanwyck.

On this day in movie history - The Irishman (2019):

The Irishman

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Steven Zaillian,

was released in the United States on September 27, 2019.
Based on the book

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt.
Music by Robbie Robertson.

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jack Huston, Kathrine Narducci, Jesse Plemons, Domenick Lombardozzi, Paul Herman, Gary Basaraba, Marin Ireland, Lucy Gallina, Jonathan Morris, Dascha Polanco, Welker White, Louis Cancelmi, Bo Dietl, Sebastian Maniscalco, Aleksa Palladino, Steven Van Zandt, Jim Norton, Daniel Jenkins, Billy Smith, Kevin O’Rourke, Action Bronson, Glenn Cunningham, Paul Ben-Victor, Patrick Gallo, James Martin, Jake Hoffman, Barry Primus, Danny A. Abeckaser, Anthony J. Gallo, J.C. MacKenzie, Joseph Bono, Larry Romano, Louis Vanaria, Craig Vincent, John Polce, Joseph Riccobene, Thomas E. Sullivan, John Cenatiempo, Robert Mladinich, Rich Reilly, Robert Funaro, Tess Price, Jennifer Mudge, India Ennenga, Jordyn DiNatale, Kate Arrington, John Bernard Martin, Philip Suriano, Tony Suriano, Jason Iannacone, Michael C. Brennan, James P. Harkins, Al Linea, Garry Pastore, Frank Pietrangolare, Frank Aquilino, John T. Sollitto, Patrick Murney, Samantha Soule, Richard V. Licata, Vito Picone, Larry Mazza, Craig DiFrancia, Ira Drukier, Jon Bruno, Paul Borghese, Steven Maglio, James Licata, Veronica Alicino, Mike Massimino, James Ciccone, Ron Castellano, Marco Greco, Meghan Rafferty, Aldo Sergi, James Lorinz, Jeffrey Paul, Robert C. Kirk, Lawrence Smith, Rebecca Faulkenberry, Ken Wulf Clark, John Rue, Steve Routman, Fernando Vera, Peter Claymore, Charles DelGatto, Michael Gongora, Eugene Bunge, Matthew F. O’Connor, Cliff Moylan, Steve Beauchamp, Alfred Sauchelli Jr., Joe Giorgio, Diana Agostini, Lauren Aparicio, Kelley Rae O’Donnell, John Garrett Greer, Jack Caruso, John Scurti, Tom Tj Jenkins, Steve Witting, Luke Smith, Brent Langdon, James D. Forsha, Giacomino J. Matra, Paul Pearlman, Frank L. Messina, Cilda Shaur, Dominick LaRuffa Jr., Erick Zamora, Steven Maglio, Joe Caniano, Lou Martini Jr., Michael Bottari, John Bianco, Margaret Anne Florence, Siena Marino, Lori Arkin, Nicholas Chrysan, Samantha Coppola, Logan Crawford, Jeff DeHart, Mark Fairchild, Blaise Corrigan, Jill Brown, Tim Neff, Matt Walton, Peter Jay Fernandez, Stephen Mailer, Gino Cafarelli, Robin Kerbis, Lucia Giannetta, Michael Romeo Ruocco, Amanda Kloots, Anne Horak, Brittany Bigelow, Vanessa Mitchell, Madison Eastman, Purdie Baumann, Jesse Wildman, Nina Lafarga, Neil Posner, Michael Leviton, Bridget Barkan, Andrea Weinzierl, Richard V. Pagano, Nicholas Wight, Clark Carmichael, Joseph Russo, Jeremy Luke, Barbara Eyland, Tracy J. Everitt, Saint Marino, Mario Corry, Johnny Potenza, Joe Passaro, Patrick Borriello, Alfred Nittoli, David Aaron Baker, Stanley Burns, Bill Timoney, Thomas Joseph McDonald, Virl Andrick, Ernest Sanders, Bill McHugh, Kevin Kane, Amelia Brain, Craig Castaldo.

On this day in movie history - The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019):

The Burnt Orange Heresy

directed by Giuseppe Capotondi,

written by Scott B. Smith,

based on the novel by Charles Willeford,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 6, 2019.
Music by Craig Armstrong.

Cast:

Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland, Rosalind Halstead, Alessandro Fabrizi, Obada Adnan, Lewis Dodley, Flaminia Fegarotti, Rasneet Kaur, David Lancaster, Katie McGovern, Fabio Melchionna, Alexia Murray, Pat Starke.

On this day in movie history - The Assistant (2019):

The Assistant

directed and written by Kitty Green,

released at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States on August 30, 2019.

Music by Tamar-kali.

Cast: Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini, Rory Kulz, Migs Govea, Daoud Heidami, Ben Maters, Noah Robbins, Tony Torn, Dagmara Dominczyk, Alexander Chaplin, Bregje Heinen, Devon Caraway, Genny Lis Padilla, Clara Wong, James C.B. Gray, Sophie Knapp, Hunter Hojnowski, Juliana Canfield, Kristine Froseth, Patrick Breen, Andrew Hsu, Ray Sheen, Chester Wai, Liz Wisan, Fang Du, Cherie Mendez, Purva Bedi, Matthew Macfadyen, Makenzie Leigh, Kirit Kapadia, Karen Stewart, Bray Poor, Lou Martini Jr., Rafael Sardina, Jay O. Sanders, Jenna O'Gara, Stéphanye Dussud, Heather MacRae, Cynthia Bastidas, Manu Narayan, Mark Jacoby, Nemuna Ceesay, Patrick Wilson.

On this day in movie history - Motherless Brooklyn (2019):

Motherless Brooklyn

directed and written by Edward Norton,

based on the novel by Jonathan Lethem,

was released in the United States on August 30, 2019.
Music by Daniel Pemberton.

Cast:

Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, Ethan Suplee, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale, Dallas Roberts, Josh Pais, Radu Spinghel, Fisher Stevens, Peter Gray Lewis, Robert Wisdom, Michael Kenneth Williams, Isaiah J. Thompson, Russell Hall, Joe Farnsworth, Jerry Weldon, Eric Berryman, Nelson Avidon, Joseph Siravo, DeShawn White, Leslie Mann, Migs Govea, Erica Sweany, Katy Davis, Olli Haaskivi, Yinka Adeboyeku, Joyce O'Connor, Thomas Luiz Leninger, Deborah Unger, Ezra Barnes, Julie Hays, Damien Brett, Russell G. Jones, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Eli Bridges, Luis Castro de Leon, Teren Carter.

On this day in movie history - Ad Astra (2019):

Ad Astra

directed by James Gray,

written by James Gray and Ethan Gross,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 29, 2019.
Music by Max Richter.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, Loren Dean, Donnie Keshawarz, Sean Blakemore, Bobby Nish, LisaGay Hamilton, John Finn, John Ortiz, Freda Foh Shen, Kayla Adams, Ravi Kapoor, Liv Tyler, Elisa Perry, Daniel Sauli, Kimmy Shields, Kunal Dudheker, Greg Bryk, Alyson Reed, Sasha Compère, Justin Dray, Alex Luna, Natasha Lyonne, Zoro Saro Manuel Daghlian, Jacob Sandler, Elizabeth Willaman, Matthew Morley Daniel, Bayardo De Murguia, Lawrence Dex, Lori Dorfman, Vivian Fleming-Alvarez, Eliza Gerontakis, Luis Richard Gomez, Eleanor Goodall, Georgia James Gray, Danny Hamouie, Bayani Ison, Lea Jones, Matthew Jones, Donna Lee, Sheila M. Lockhart, Mallory Low, Kento Matsunami, Anne McDaniels, Noelle Messier, Jen Morillo, Jean-Pierre Mouzon, Melvin Payne Jr., Eloy Perez, Rochelle Rose, Valeri Ross, Brynn Route, Lisa Shows, Amanda Tudesco, Nicholas Walker, Robert J. Yowell.

On this day in music history:

A Journey for Mankind by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019)

Flow State by Above & Beyond (2019)

A Journey for Mankind

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released July 19, 2019.

Track list: Dawn at the Coast; Trans-Lunar; A Song for Distant Earth; Shadow of the Moon; Blue Pearl in a Black Sky; Tranquility Base Here; Magnificent Solitude; Trans-earth; Night Sky in Wonder.

Flow State

Album by Above & Beyond,

released July 19, 2019.

Track list: Great Falls; Night Light; Don't Leave; Slow Buchla Sunshine; Energy; Homecoming; Strength From Inside; Rotations; Ebb And Flow; Reflections; Golden; Believer; Small Moments; Flow; Sun In Your Eyes; Common Ground; Solarized.

On this day in movie history - The Banana Splits Movie (2019):

The Banana Splits Movie

directed by Danishka Esterhazy,

written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas,

based on The Banana Splits by Hanna-Barbera Productions,

was released at the San Diego Comic-Con International in the United States on July 18, 2019.
Music by Patrick Stump.

Cast:

Dani Kind, Steve Lund, Celina Martin, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Sara Canning, Romeo Carere, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Kiroshan Naidoo, Keeno Lee Hector, Lia Sachs, Lionel Newton, Daniel Fox, Vash Singh, Nicky Rebelo, Liza Scholtz, Jenna Saras, Eric Bauza, Terry Sauls, Brandon Vraagom, Kori Clarke, Buntu Plam, Matthew Jander, Liam Williams, Bethany Jander, Grace Li, Marlene Trimborn-De Kock, Joshua Kalambay, Temoso Mogotsi, Lily Spangenberg.

On this day in movie history - Astronaut (2019):

Astronaut

directed by Shelagh McLeod,

written by Shelagh McLeod, Carolyn Saunders and Maureen Dorey,

was released in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2019.
Music by Virginia Kilbertus.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Colm Feore, Richie Lawrence, Art Hindle, Graham Greene, Judy Marshak, Jennifer Phipps, Joan Gregson, Karen LeBlanc, Paulino Nunes, Mimi Kuzyk, Mike Taylor, Colin Mochrie, Jeff Douglas, Rhona Shekter, Anthony Bekenn, Maria Ricossa, Jason Burke, Alex Hatz, Peter Valdron, Sandra Beech, Jonathan Walton, Lori Hallier, Ryan LaPlante, Rosemary Dunmore, Chris Gleason, Shelagh McLeod, Joanna O’Malley, Brendan Stevenson, Casie Stewart.

On this day in movie history - Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe (2019):

Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe

documentary directed by Constantine Nasr,

written by Steve Haberman,

released in the United States on June 18, 2019.

Cast: Doug Bradley, Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi.

On this day in music history:

Memoirs by Michele McLaughlin (2019)

Watercolor Sky by Michael Whalen, Mark Isham, Michael Manring, Nancy Rumbel, Will Ackerman & Charlie Bisharat (2024)

Memoirs

Album by Michele McLaughlin,

released May 24, 2019.

Track list: Thankful; Pure Joy; Dark Moon; Triumph; Little Love; My Life with You; Beneath the Surface; Alone; Winter; Northern Lights; Peace; Dismissed.

Watercolor Sky

Album by Michael Whalen, Mark Isham, Michael Manring, Nancy Rumbel, Will Ackerman & Charlie Bisharat.

released May 24, 2024.

Track list: The Endless Summer; Ode to a Perfect Sunset; The Road Not Taken; Watercolor Sky; Dancing in the Wind; The Flood at High Tide; The First Frost; Golden Hour; Winter Beach.

On this day in movie history - The Lighthouse (2019):

The Lighthouse

directed by Robert Eggers,

written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2019.
Music by Mark Korven.

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle, Shaun Clarke, Pierre Richard, Preston Hudson, Jeffrey Cruts, Sully Seagull.

On this day in movie history - Tolkien (2019):

Tolkien

directed by Dome Karukoski,

written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2019.
Music by Thomas Newman.

Cast:

Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Al Bollands, Kallum Tolkien, Craig Roberts, Harry Gilby, Colm Meaney, Laura Donnelly, Guillermo Bedward, Nia Gwynne, Pam Ferris, Adrian Schiller, Albie Marber, Ty Tennant, Adam Bregman, Tony Nash, Michael Bryceson, Andrew Bissell, Owen Teale, Mimi Keene, Sian Crisp, Patrick Gibson, Anthony Boyle, Tom Glynn-Carney, Antony Barlow, James MacCallum, David Puckridge, David Bromley, Lara Maguire, Holly Dempster, Jane Dixon-Rowland, Genevieve O'Reilly, David Birkbeck, Colin Burnie, Derek Jacobi, Andy Orchard, Frank Kerr, Rob Rhys Bond, Joel Phillimore, John Bradfield, Mia Woods, Sienna Woods, Paul Gurcel Escudero, Harry Webster, Jack Riley.

On this day in music history:

American Recordings by Johnny Cash (1994)

Be Here by Rachel Platten (2011)

Storyteller by Secret Garden (2019)

Tattoo Me by Lee Aaron (2024)

American Recordings

Album by Johnny Cash,

released April 26, 1994.

Track list: Delia's Gone; Let the Train Blow the Whistle; The Beast in Me; Drive On; Why Me Lord; Thirteen; Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer); Bird on a Wire; Tennessee Stud; Down There by the Train; Redemption; Like a Soldier; The Man Who Couldn't Cry.

Be Here

Album by Rachel Platten,

released April 26, 2011.

Track list: Nothing Ever Happens; Overwhelmed; Don't Care What Time It Is; 53 Steps; Little Light; 1000 Ships; Take These Things Away; You Don't Have To Go; All I Seem To Do; Remark.

Storyteller

Album by Secret Garden,

released April 26, 2019.

Track list: The Pilot; Beyond The Blue; Beautiful [feat. Brian Kennedy]; Flow; Song To A Child; Nostalgia; Open Doors; Sunshine [feat. Cathrine Iversen]; One More Chance; Fantasia; The Voyage; Strength [feat. Espen Grjotheim]; End Of A Journey.

Tattoo Me

Album by Lee Aaron,

released April 26, 2024.

Track list: Tattoo; Are You Gonna Be My Girl; Even It Up; What Is and What Should Never Be; Is It My Body; Go Your Own Way; The Pusher; Malibu; Someone Saved My Life Tonight; Connection; Teenage Kicks.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

The Star Trek Reader IV / book (1978)

Star Trek: Discovery (2019 & 2024)

The Star Trek Reader IV

By James Blish.

Published by E P Dutton.

Published 1978.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 052520962X

ISBN-13: 978-0525209621

Description:

James Blish was a science fiction writer who wrote over 27 novels, most notably the Cities in Flight series, and A Case of Conscience, for which he won a Hugo Award. He also was a highly respected critic, and his criticism in collected in the books The Issue at Hand, and More Issues at Hand, (published under the pen name of William Atheling, Jr.). Using the original scripts, which sometimes differed from the final filmed episode, Blish turned each episode of the original Star Trek into a short story, which were collected into anthologies and published as paperback originals. The Star Trek Reader IV collects two of these anthologies: Star Trek 10, and Star Trek 11, and Blish's original Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die!. The episodes present include: The Alternative Factor; The Empath; The Galileo Seven; Is There in Truth No Beauty?; A Private Little War; The Omega Glory; What Are Little Girles Made Of?; The Squire of Gothos; Wink of an Eye; Bread and Circuses; Day of the Dove; and Plato's Stepchildren.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Through the Valley of Shadows.

Released April 4, 2019.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Bo Yeon Kim, Erika Lippoldt, 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, Mia Kirshner, Mary Chieffo, Ethan Peck, Tig Notaro, Kenneth Mitchell, Rachael Ancheril, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Ali Momen, Julianne Grossman, Ian James Corlett, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Byron Abalos, Olivia Croft, Nicole Dickinson, Pamela Mars, Shelley Owens, Ronald Tang.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 5. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Red Directive.

Released April 4, 2024.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Brandon Schultz, Lauren Wilkinson, 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, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, David Cronenberg, Annabelle Wallis, Tara Rosling, Eve Harlow, Elias Toufexis, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Victoria Sawal, Natalie Liconti, J. Adam Brown, Gregory Ambrose Calderone, Mei Chung, Michael Copeman, Julianne Grossman, Addison Holley, Nicole Nwokolo, Flex Aleo.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 5. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Under the Twin Moons.

Released April 4, 2024.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Alan B. McElroy, Brandon Schultz, Lauren Wilkinson, 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, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Chelah Horsdal, Annabelle Wallis, Eve Harlow, Elias Toufexis.