Born on this day – Dorothea Lange:

Dorothea Lange

Photographer

May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965

Credits:

Books:

A Sky; An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion; Aperture Masters of Photography Series; Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman: A Photographic Essay; Dorothea Lange. Ediz. Inglese; Dorothea Lange: 500 FSA Photographs; Dorothea Lange: Life Through the Camera; Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum; Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer; Dorothea Lange's Ireland; Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment; Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the East Bay at War, 1941-1945; Photographs of a Lifetime; Photographs of Dorothea Lange; The Making of a Documentary Photographer; The Thunderbird Remembered: Maynard Dixon, the Man and the Artist; To a Cabin.

Television:

American Masters (2014); Dust to Eat (2021); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit (2007).

Born on this day – Mamie Smith:

Mamie Smith

Blues & Vaudeville singer

May 26, 1891 – September 16, 1946

Credits:

Albums:

All Legacy Masters (2014); All Night in Music (2015); Blue Woman (2023); Blues Essentials (2011); Blues Will Never Die (2014); Can Anyone See The Light (2015); Can't Be Satisfied - The 1920 Recordings (2023); Crazy Blues: The Best Of (2004); Essential Blues Masters (2013); Female Crazy Blues (Classic Mood Experience) (2013); I Found My Love Outside (2015); Last Tower's Bell (2016); Let Me Tell You - The 1921 Recordings (2023); Live Music (2022); Mamie Smith Vol. 1 (1920-1921) (2005); Mamie Smith Vol. 2 (1921-1922) (2005); Mamie Smith Vol. 3 (1922-1923) (2005); Mamie Smith Vol. 4 (1923-1942) (2005); Me Myself and My Songs (2016); Memories Suite (2015); Mem'ries of You, Mamie (2021); Music In My Hands (2015); My Happy Heaven (2016); My Jazzy Kiss (2021); Over the Top Blues Masterpieces (Remastered) (2014); Please Stay Somedays (2015); Presenting Mamie Smith (1920); Queen of the Blues (2015); The Groovin' Atmosphere (2015); The Immortal Blues Masters (2014); Unforgettable Sentimental Songs (2015); Wonderful Soundtrack (2016).

Movies and television:

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001); All You Need Is Love (1977); American Epic (2017); Because I Love You (1942); Beginners (2010); Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love (2022); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Jailhouse Blues (1929); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941); Paradise in Harlem (1939); Soul Power! (2013); Stolen Paradise (1940); Sunday Sinners (1940); The Blues (2003).

Recommended reading - Kubrick: The Definitive Edition, by Michel Ciment (2001):

Kubrick: The Definitive Edition

By Michel Ciment.

Published by Faber & Faber.

Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 0571199860

ISBN-13: 978-0571199860

Description:

"Michel Ciment's Kubrick: The Definitive Edition remains the best work on the great director. Through it we get a glimpse into a working method that was unique in the cinema. It is a fascinating blend of interviews and analysis." – Joel Coen.

"This final edition of Michel Ciment's definitive book is an invaluable resource." – Martin Scorsese.

If Stanley Kubrick had made only 2001: A Space Odyssey or Dr. Strangelove, his cinematic legacy would have been assured. But from his first feature film, Fear and Desire, to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick created an accomplished body of work unique in its scope, diversity, and artistry, and by turns both lauded and controversial.

In this fully revised and definitive edition of his now classic study, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick’s thirteen films --- including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket --- alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay. Rounding out this unique work are a short biography of Kubrick; rare interviews that were held with the usually reticent director, as well as with cast and crew members, including Malcolm McDowell, Shelley Duvall, and Jack Nicholson; and a detailed filmography and bibliography.

Meshed with masterful integrity, the book’s text and illustrations pay homage to one of the most visionary, original, and demanding filmmakers of our time.

David Quammen, on books:

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime.

A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

- David Quammen.

On this day in movie history - Good Time (2017):

Good Time

directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie,

written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2017.
Music by Oneohtrix Point Never.

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Necro, Peter Verby, Saida Mansoor, Gladys Mathon, Rose Gregorio, Eric Paykert, Astrid Corrales, Rachel Black, Hirakish Ranasaki, Maynard Nicholl, Ben Edelman, Laurence Blum, Jason Harvey, Robert Clohessy, Michael Kaufman, Goran Spadina, Michael McClard, Eloisa Santos, Bryan Seslow, Craig muMs Grant, George Lee, Kate Halpern, Christopher Kirk, Leticia Ortega, Souleymane Sy Savane, Mahadeo Shivraj, Dorothi Fox, Ratnesh Dubey, Tessa O’Conner, Jim Handley, Cliff Moylan, Peter Linari, Chris Breslin, Evonne Walton, Lewis Dodley, Tara Lynn Wagner, Jim Dzurenda, Roy James Wilson, Brendan M. Burke, Jordan Valdez, Laura Sledge, Jerome Frazier, Javaughn Swindell, Dion McBean, Sean Miller, Benny DeVincenzi, Joey McDevitt, Daniel Chung, Afro, Azul Rodriguez, Jarvis, Mavrin Kirill, KJ Rothweiler, Michael Shershenovich, Mr. Green, Roi Cydulkin, Scrooge, Terrance Williams, Kim Carter, Gianluca Cirafici, Megan Dodd, Samantha Elisafon, Melissa Gonzalez, Rodney Hankins, Carol Hoverman, Andrew Kader, Marissa Lelogeais, Michael Lorch, Michael Melendez, Christian Patane, Ari Sloan, Bakari Williams, Aubrie Therrien, A-F-R-O, Sebastian Bear-McClard, Phil Cappadora, Francisco De Arriba, Luca De Massis, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Jibril Goodman, Edgar Morais, Shaun Rey, Sacco Sarkis.

On this day in movie history – Cosmopolis (2012 movie & novel):

Cosmopolis

directed and written by David Cronenberg,

based on the novel by Don DeLillo,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2012.

Music by Howard Shore.

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Abdul Ayoola, Juliette Binoche, Emily Hampshire, Bob Bainborough, Samantha Morton, Zeljko Kecojevic, Jay Baruchel, Philip Nozuka, Mathieu Amalric, Patricia McKenzie, Ryan Kelly, Nadeem Phillip/Umar-Khitab, Albert Gomez, Goûchy Boy, David Schaap, Warren Chow, George Touliatos, Jadyn Wong, K'Naan, Inessa Frantowski, Jonathan Seinen, Milton Barnes, John Batkis, Saad Siddiqui, Anna Hardwick, Maria Juan Garcias, Christopher Gross, Conor Loftus, Paulette Sinclair, Noah Wallach.

Recommended reading:

Cosmopolis

By Don DeLillo.

Filmed as Cosmopolis (2012), directed by David Cronenberg.

Published by Scribner.

First published 2003.

ISBN-10: 0743244257

ISBN-13: 978-0743244251

Description:

"Cosmopolis is a concise Ulysses for the new century." – The San Diego Union-Tribune.

It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism – when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments – are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors – experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners – as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.

Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Veterans.

Released May 25, 2010.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Wendy Calhoun, Chris Provenzano and Benjamin Daniel Lobato.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Raymond J. Barry, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, Jim Haynie, Damon Herriman, Brent Sexton, Kevin E. West, Brad Carter, David Meunier, Ray Porter, Walton Goggins, John Lee Ames, Emerson Brooks, Mark Elias, David Haley, Darin Heames, Travis Johns, Josh Wingate, David Hill, Jeffrey Jones.