Monday, February 3, 2025

Born on this day – Paul Auster:


Paul Auster


Writer

Director

February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024

Credits:

Books and plays:

110 Stories (2004); 4 3 2 1 (2017); A Life in Words (2017); Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990); Baumgartner (2023); Bloodbath Nation (2023); Blue in the Face (1990); Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021); Central Park: An Anthology (2012); City of Glass (1985); Collected Prose (2003); Collected Screenplays (2010); Dream Days in Hotel (1998); Ghosts (1986); Granta 58: Ambition (1997); Groundwork (2020); Hand to Mouth (1997); Here and Now (2012); In the Country of Last Things (1987); Invisible (2009); Leviathan (1992); Long Live King Kobe (2022); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Man in the Dark (2008); Moon Palace (1989); Mr. Vertigo (1994); Oracle Night (2004); Paul Auster's New York (1997); Report from the Interior (2013); Smoke (1995); Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999); Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001); Sunset Park (2010); Talking to Strangers (2019); The Art of Hunger (1983); The Book of Illusions (2002); The Brooklyn Follies (2005); The Future Dictionary of America (2004); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2000); The Invention of Solitude (1985); The Locked Room (1986); The Music of Chance (1990); The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983); The Red Notebook (1993); The Story of My Typewriter (2002); Timbuktu (1999); Translations (1997); Travels in the Scriptorium (2005); White Spaces (1980); Why Write? (1996); Winter Journal (2012).

Movies and television:

20 heures le journal (2001); 21 cm (2018); 50 anys en companyia (2009); 60 Minutes / Smoke Screen (1996); Act of God (2009); Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009); Ànima (2012); Apos' (1987); Apostrophes (1990); As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005); Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 (1998); Babel (2017); Bestseller (2002 / 2003); Blue in the Face (1995); Bonnie (2022); Broken Flowers (2005); C politique (2020); Café littéraire (2009); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Cinema 3 (2007); Continuarà... (2008); Conversas de Escritores (2009); David Blaine: Beyond Magic (2016); Doc (2008); Double je (2002); Druckfrisch (2013); Edge of Outside (2006); El blog de Cayetana (2007); Èxit (2008); Fluxus (2004); Gomorron (2011); Hjemkomst (2004); I Remember (1999); In the Country of Last Things (2020); It Was Mine (2015); Joan Mitchell: Woman in Abstraction (2022); Kulturplatz (2013); Kulturzeit (2017); La grande librairie (2009–2022); La tarda (2008); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le carnet rouge (2004); Le cercle (1998); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le Conversazioni, Close Up (2015); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011); L'hora del lector (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Los Siete Locos (2018); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Mein Leben (2006); Newsnight (2017); Out of My Head (2018); Página 2 (2008–2017); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2015); Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard (2019); Por Outro Lado (2005); Qwerty (2008–2012); Sabine Christiansen in Sabine Christiansen (2001); Saturday Review (1987); Skavlan (2013); Smoke (1995); Sqizo (2020); Talking Books (2012); The Accompanist (1992); The Center of the World (2001); The DVD Collection (2005); The Fall (1969); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007); The Look / Age (2011); The Music of Chance (1993); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tot el temps del món (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Via llibre (2012).

Born on this day – Michael Cimino:


Michael Cimino


Director

Producer

Writer

February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016

Credits:

City of Life (2009); Desperate Hours (1990); Eastman Kodak: Yesterdays (1967); Finding Home (2003); Heaven's Gate (1980); Il pianto della statua / The Wind Sculpture (2007); Magnum Force (1973); Platoon (1986); Silent Running (1972); The Big Brass Ring (1999); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Rose (1979); The Sicilian (1987); The Sunchaser (1996); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); To Each His Own Cinema (2007); United Airlines: Take Me Along (1967); Year of the Dragon (1985).

Born on this day – Hilary Masters:


Hilary Masters


Writer

February 3, 1928 – June 14, 2015

Credits:

An American Marriage (1969); Clemmons (1985); Cooper (1987); Elegy for Sam Emerson (2006); Hammertown Tales (1986); Home Is the Exile (1996); How the Indians Buried Their Dead (2009); In Montaigne's Tower (2000); Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982); Manuscript for Murder (1987); Palace of Strangers (1971); Post: A Fable (2011); Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro (2005); Strickland (1989); Success: New and Selected Short Stories (1992); The Common Pasture (1967).

Sunday, February 2, 2025

On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons: L.A. Serial Killers (2011):


James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons

Documentary.
Season 1.
Episode 3.
Episode entitled: L.A. Serial Killers.
Released: February 2, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.

Cast:

James Ellroy, Shaun Gerardo, Tiffany Turner, Ryan Beard, Kenneth Bianchi, Roger W. Boren, Pamela Bozanich, Angelo Buono Jr., Saul Faerstein, Jared Jacobs, Ted Jonas, Phil LaMarr, Glynn Martin, Danny McCluskey, Martin T. Orne, Eliana Saenz, Mitchell Salberg, Frank Salerno.

On this day in music history - Star Crossed Lovers, by Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming (1999):


Star Crossed Lovers

Album by Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming,
released February 2, 1999.

Track list:

West Side Story: Prologue; West Side Story: Tonight; West Side Story: Rumble; West Side Story: Somewhere; Faust: Il se fait tard...O nuit d'amour; El dia que me quieras; Quisiera verte y no verte; Jota castellana; Otello: Gia nella notte densa; In a Sentimental Mood; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Prelude to a Kiss; Das Land des Lachelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz; Die lustige Witwe: Lippen schweigen.

On this day in movie history - Groundhog Day (1993):


Groundhog Day

directed by Harold Ramis,
written by Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin,
based on a story by Danny Rubin,
was released in the United States on February 2, 1993.
Music by George Fenton.


Cast:

Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, Robin Duke, Ken Hudson Campbell, David Pasquesi, Richard Henzel, Rob Riley, Hynden Walch, Michael Shannon, Les Podewell, Rod Sell, Harold Ramis.

On this day in movie history - Snow Job (1972):


Snow Job

directed by George Englund,
written by Jeffrey Bloom and Ken Kolb,
based on a story by Richard Gallagher,
was released in the United States on February 2, 1972.
Music by Jacques Loussier.


Cast:

Jean-Claude Killy, Danièle Gaubert, Cliff Potts, Vittorio De Sica, Lelio Luttazzi, Delia Boccardo, Umberto D'Orsi, Giancarlo Prete.