On this day in movie history - Nouvelle Vague (2025):

Nouvelle Vague

directed by Richard Linklater,

written by Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Pétin,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 17, 2025.

Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Bruno Dreyfürst, Benjamin Clery, Matthieu Penchinat, Pauline Belle, Frank Cicurel, Blaise Pettebone, Benoît Bouthors, Paolo Luka-Noé, Jade Phan-Gia, Jonas Marmy, Côme Thieulin, Alix Bénézech, Léa Luce Busato, Tom Novembre, Laurent Mothe, Aurélien Lorgnier, Lou Chrétien-Février, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier, Jeanne Arènes, Robinson Fyot, Cosima Bevernaege, Pierre-François Garel, Grégory Dupont, Iliana Zabeth, Pauline Scoupe-Fournier, Baptiste Roussillon, Niko Ravel, Isis Fleischer, Frédéric Chateau, Jean-Baptiste Degermann, Nicolas Dozol, Pierre Glénat, Romain Valette, Gigi Velicitat.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Haunting of Deck Twelve.

Released May 17, 2000.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, Kenneth Biller, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Manu Intiraymi, Marley McClean, Zoe McLellan, Kurt Wetherill, Cody Wetherill, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Michael Bailous, Tina Kotrich, Nichole McAuley, Neil Norman, Keith Rayve, Joey Sakata, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano.

On this day in music history:

Midnight at the Lost and Found by Meat Loaf (1983)

Flowers Of Fire by Kathy Raimey (2001)

600 Years in a Moment by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2013)

Sound Currents by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019)

Casta Diva by Cecilia Bartoli (2024)

Midnight at the Lost and Found

Album by Meat Loaf,

released May 17, 1983.

Track list: Razor’s Edge; Midnight at the Lost and Found; Wolf at Your Door; Keep Driving; The Promised Land; You Can Never Be Too Sure About the Girl; Priscilla; Don’t You Look at Me Like That; If You Really Want to; Fallen Angel.

Flowers Of Fire

Album by Kathy Raimey,

released May 17, 2001.

Track list: Flowers of Fire; Reverie; Questions to the Sea; Farewell to Lee; Shimmer Float.

600 Years in a Moment

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released May 17, 2013.

Track list: 600 Years; Naked Love; The Journey; Earthbound; Gliding; Tango on Wednesday; Running on Joy; Ancient Albatross; The Lost Ballerina; Antarctica; Captured Freedom; Forgivness.

Sound Currents

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released May 17, 2019.

Track list: A Sound Traveler’s Dream; Following The Current; Canyon Echoes; Star Trails; Timeless Flow; Night Tides; Midnight Mystique; This Side of Silence; Theta Waves.

Casta Diva

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released May 17, 2024.

Track list: “Casta Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Nacqui All’affanno E Al Pianto” - “Non Più Mesta; “Cari Giorni” (Romanza Der Ines); Una Parola.Chiedi All’aura; “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); “Si, Fino All’ore Estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Prendi: L’anel Ti Dono [Edit]; No Mia Vita, Mio Tesoro; O Rendetemi la Speme; Ira Del Ciel; Vaga Luna Che Inargenti; La Danza; No. 12, Voi Che Sapete; Il Cor VI Dono; Se Mai Senti Spirarti Sul Volto; Come Nave in Mezzo All’onde; Di’ Cor Mio; Ma Quando Tornerai.

On this day in movie history - The Long Good Friday (1980 movie & books):

The Long Good Friday

directed by John Mackenzie,

written by Barrie Keeffe,

was released at the Cannes Film Market in France on May 17, 1980.
Music by Francis Monkman.

Cast:

Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally, Patti Love, P.H. Moriarty, Derek Thompson, Bryan Marshall, Ruby Head, Charles Cork, Olivier Pierre, Pierce Brosnan, Daragh O'Malley, Dave King, Karl Howman, Brian Hall, Alan Ford, Dave Ould, Paul Kember, Bill Moody, Alan Devlin, Eddie Constantine, Stephen Davies, Bruce Alexander, Nigel Humphreys, Brian Hayes, Georgie Phillips, Mary Sheen, Pauline Melville, Trevor Laird, Paul Barber, Dexter Fletcher, Billy Cornelius, Michael Ryan, Rob Walker, Nick Stringer, Gillian Taylforth, Robert Hamilton, James Ottaway, Roy Alon, Tony Rohr, Tony Clarkin, Tim Condren, George Coulouris, Maxwell Craig, Jim Dowdall, Harry Fielder, Terry Forrestal, Jill Goldston, Peter McNamara, Ralph G. Morse, Terence Plummer, Alan Talbot, Bill Weston.

Recommended reading:

The Long Good Friday

By Russell Claughton.

Based on the screenplay by Barrie Keeffe.

Paperback.

Published 1981.

Published by Magnum Books.

ASIN: B0DT3YB8MS

The Long Good Friday

screenplay by Barrie Keefe.

Filmed as The Long Good Friday (1980), directed by John Mackenzie.

Published by Methuen Publishing.

Published 2006.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0413722902

ISBN-13: 978-0413722904

Description:

The first British thriller to even approach the cracking vitality of the classic Hollywood gangster movies ...dazzlingly slick. – Daily Mail.

The best British gangster flick of all time. – Empire.

Barrie Keeffe's acclaimed screenplay for the classic film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own 'corporation' and owning his own yacht and classy mistress. He has the police and the local authorities in his pocket, is planning a major London property development and forging links with the international Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses for Harold until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against his organisation. As the story accelerates to a crazy vortex of violence, Harold discovers he has unwittingly crossed enemies whose connections, expertise and dedication to violence outclass his own.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: Two Days for Willy.
Released May 17, 1960.
Directed by Donald McDougall.
Written by Terry Crosby and Dennis Roberts.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Hale, Peggy Webber, Harry Lauter, Mark Tapscott, Bob Hoy, Stephen Talbot.

On this day in movie history - In a Lonely Place (1950 movie & novel):

In a Lonely Place

directed by Nicholas Ray,

written by Andrew P. Solt and Edmund H. North,

based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes,

was released in the United States on May 17, 1950.
Music by George Antheil.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Martha Stewart, Jeff Donnell, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks, Jack Reynolds.

Recommended reading:

In a Lonely Place

By Dorothy B. Hughes.

Filmed as In a Lonely Place (1950), directed by Nicholas Ray.

Published by NYRB Classics.

First published 1947.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1681371472

ISBN-13: 978-1681371474

Description:

Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night – bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out – seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the city for months...

Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.