On this day in movie history - Song of My City (2025):

Song of My City

documentary directed by David C. Roberts,

released at the Telluride Film Festival in United States on August 30, 2025.

Collection of scenes showing the streets and skylines of New York City, from the following movies:

Across 110 Street (1972); All That Jazz (1979); The American Friend (1977); The Anderson Tapes (1971); Born to Win (1971); Cops and Robbers (1973); Cruising (1980); Death Wish (1974); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); Dressed to Kill (1980); The Exorcist (1973); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); The French Connection (1971); Gloria (1980); God Told Me To (1976); Godspell (1973); Hair (1979); The Hot Rock (1972); Husbands (1970); The Last Detail (1973); Loving (1970); Maniac (1980); Marathon Man (1976); Mean Streets (1973); Midnight Cowboy (1969); Network (1976); A New Leaf (1971); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); Saturday Night Fever (1977); Serpico (1973); The Seven-Ups (1973); Shaft (1971); Such Good Friends (1971); Superfly (1972); The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Three Days of the Condor (1975); Times Square (1980); An Unmarried Woman (1978); The Warriors (1979).

On this day in movie history - Slingshot (2024):

Slingshot

directed by Mikael Håfström,

written by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker,

released in the United States on August 30, 2024.
Music by Steffen Thum.

Cast:

Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham, Tomer Capone, David Morrissey, Charlotta Lövgren, Mark Ebulué, Nikolett Barabas, Ágota Dunai, Nahna James, Ferenc Iván Szabó, Harry Szovik.

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 the Blade Runner universe:

2036: Nexus Dawn

Alternative titles:

2036: Clone Era,

2036: Chain Dawn,

2036: Copy of the Times,

Blade Runner 2036,

directed by Luke Scott,

written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green,

based on a story by Brian A. Alexander and Will Melton,

released in the United States on August 30, 2017.

Music by Blitz//Berlin.

Cast: Jared Leto, Benedict Wong, Ned Dennehy, Ade Sapara, Ania Marson, Set Sjöstrand.

On this day in movie history - Vagabond (1985):

Vagabond

French title: Sans toit ni loi,

directed and written by Agnès Varda,

was released at the Venice Film Festival, in Italy, on August 30, 1985.
Music by Joanna Bruzdowicz.

Cast:

Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urban Causse, Christophe Alcazar, Dominique Durand, Joël Fosse, Patrick Schmit, Daniel Bos, Katy Champaud, Raymond Roulle, Henri Fridlani, Patrick Sokol, Pierre Imbert, Richard Imbert, Mar Jarnias, Yolande Moreau, Gabriel Mariani, Patrick Lepcynski, Sylvain, Savin, Michele Doumèche, Pierette Soler, Macha Méril, Pierre Emonnot, Stéphane Freiss, Laurence Cortadellas, Emmanuel Protopopoff, Vincent Sanchez, ‘Garibaldi’ Fernández, Michel Constantial, Alain Roussel, Yahiaoui Assouna, Aimée Chisci, Marguerite Chisci, Geneviève Bonfils, Christian Chessa, Setina Arhab, Jacques Berthier, Oliver Jongerlynck, Remi Leboucq, Jean Dambrin, Bébert Samcir.

On this day in movie history - Point Blank (1967):

Point Blank

directed by John Boorman,

written by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse and Rafe Newhouse,

based on the novel The Hunter by Richard Stark,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1967.
Music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong, John Vernon, Sharon Acker, James Sikking, Sandra Warner, Roberta Haynes, Kathleen Freeman, Victor Creatore, Lawrence Hauben, Susan Holloway, Sid Haig, Michael Bell, Priscilla Boyd, John McMurtry, Ron Walters, George Strattan, Nicole Rogell, Rico Cattani, Roland La Starza, Paul Bradley, Casey Brandon, George Bruggeman, George Calliga, Jerry Catron, Dick Cherney, Bud Cokes, Bonnie Dewberry, Richard Elmore, Barbara Feldon, Duke Fishman, Carey Foster, Stu Gardner, Rudy Germane, Kenneth Gibson, Bill Hickman, Chuck Hicks, George Hoagland, Harvey Karels, Joseph La Cava, Louise Lane, Ethelreda Leopold, Philo McCullough, Joseph Mell, Monty O'Grady, Andrew Orapeza, Murray Pollack, Anthony Redondo, Leoda Richards, Clark Ross, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Felix Silla, Norman Stevans, Karen Stride, Robert Strong, Tim Taylor, Sid Troy, Guy Way, Ted White, Louis Whitehill, Roseann Williams, John Zimeas.

On this day in movie history - Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947):

Philo Vance's Secret Mission

directed by Reginald Le Borg,

written by Lawrence Taylor,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1947.
Music by Emil Cadkin, Ernest Gold and Karl Hajos.

Cast:

Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Tala Birell, Frank Jenks, James Bell, Frank Fenton, Paul Maxey, Kenneth Farrell, Toni Todd, David Leonard, William Newell, Tom Quinn, Harry Strang, Frank Wilcox.

On this day in movie history - The Killers (1946 movie & book):

The Killers

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Anthony Veiller, John Huston and Richard Brooks,

based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1946.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Ernie Adams, Audley Anderson, George Anderson, Sam Ash, Frank Baker, Brooks Benedict, John Berkes, Edward Biby, Harry Brown, Phil Brown, Jack Cheatham, James Conaty, Jeff Corey, Gino Corrado, Noel Cravat, Oliver Cross, Rex Dale, Neal Dodd, Mike Donovan, Howard Freeman, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Michael Hale, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, Mark Hellinger, Al Hill, George Hoagland, Jimmie Horan, Geoffrey Ingham, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Ethan Laidlaw, Mike Lally, Perc Launders, Nolan Leary, Vera Lewis, Jack Lomas, Therese Lyon, Frank McLure, Charles Middleton, John Miljan, Howard Negley, Garry Owen, Barbara ‘Red’ Powers, Beatrice Roberts, Wally Rose, William Ruhl, Wallace Scott, John Sheehan, Queenie Smith, Ann Staunton, Jack Tornek, John Trebach, Bill Walker, Milton Wallace, Gabrielle Windsor, Florence Wix.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway.

Published by Scribner.

Published 1998.

ASIN: 0684843323

ISBN-10: 9780684843322

ISBN-13: 978-0684843322

Description:

In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hills Like White Elephants, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.