On this day in movie history – Aniara (2018 movie & books):

Aniara

directed and written by Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja,

based on the epic book-length poem Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem by Harry Martinson,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 7, 2018.

Music by Alexander Berg.

Cast: Emelie Garbers / Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Emma Broomé, Jamil Drissi, Leon Jiber, Peter Carlberg, Juan Rodríguez, David Nzinga, Dakota Trancher Williams, Otis Castillo Ålhed, Dante Westergårdh, Enzo Westergårdh, Elin Lilleman Eriksson, Agnes Lundgren, Alexi Carpentieri, Mattias Appelqvist, Unn Dahlman, Laila Ljunggren, Thomas Lundgren, Malin Olsson, Susanna Salonen, Cornelia Sjöblom, Oskar Snickars, Max Stenerudh, Markus Waltå, Carl Kumlin, Masoud Owji, Andreas Wicklund, Jacob Stefansson, Malin Friis, Jörgen Hallqvist, Tobias Cronwall, Pau Boluda Hernández, Mats Plyhr, Ida Sandberg, Rabie Jirjis, Inez Kontio, Nicole Ardizzone, Nicklas Dahlin, Mikaela Stenström, Vinicio Skoog, Hans Svensson, Tobias Sondén, Sylvia Kren, Rudy Lindberg, Nandor Ingevald Hegedüs, Emmelie Ginste, Irene Duckert, Jonas Larsson Grönström, Mattias Königsson, Pablo Salvador N.G.

Recommended reading:

Aniara:

An Epic Science Fiction Poem

By Harry Martinson.

Published by Story Line Press.

First published 1956.

ISBN-10: 1885266634

ISBN-13: 978-1885266637

Description:

Aniara is a great space epic and a story of an inner journey of the soul – at once a warning of despair in the age of nuclear weapons and ecological threats, and perhaps the fullest expression of Harry Martinson's lifelong project to show us man's attempt to see himself and his role in creation. Aniara was first published in 1956 and received a great reception. But it is perhaps only today that the verse epic fully emerges as one of the most artistically and intellectually challenging works of our time.

Aniara

By Harry Martinson.

Introduction by Tord Hall.

Translated by Hugh MacDiarmid & E. Harley Schubert.

Illustrated by The Voice of Nick.

Kindle Edition.

ASIN: B0BTJTQGDT

Published by The Voice of Nick.

Published 2023.

Description:

"Who could foresee that just this flight, all in the day’s work as it seemed, was singled out to be unique and doomed to bear us all away from Earth and Sun, Venus and Mars, and life’s entire environment?"

Featuring 11 beautiful illustrations and dozens of hours of behind-the-scenes videos documenting the artwork's creation.

Nobel laureate Harry Martinson's 1956 sci-fi epic, translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert. A passenger ship is lost in space during a routine journey, and its 8,000 inhabitants must somehow come to terms with their new life. What awaits them in the bitter Galactic night?

On this day in music history:

A World Away by 2002 (2018)

Broadway by Renée Fleming (2018)

A World Away

Album by 2002,

released September 7, 2018.

Track list: Dream of Life; Finding You; To Live Again; Butterfly; Memory of Tomorrow; Stars and Moon; We Are Always; Stars Will Guide Us; The Space Between; Strings of Your Heart.

Broadway

Album by Renée Fleming,

released September 7, 2018.

Track list: Rodgers: The Sound of Music - From The Sound of Music; Guettel: Medley: Wedding / Fable - From The Light in the Piazza; So Big/So Small - From Dear Evan Hansen; Rodgers: Medley: Children will Listen / You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught - From Into the Woods & South Pacific; Lay Down Your Head - From Violet; Porter: Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor - From Red, Hot and Blue; Kander: Medley: Winter / Love and Love Alone - From The Visit; Bock: Dear Friend - From She Loves Me; Rodgers: A Wonderful Guy - From South Pacific; Rodgers: Loneliness of Evening - From South Pacific; Unusual Way - From Nine; Till There Was You - From The Music Man; Sondheim: The Glamorous Life - From A Little Night Music; Rodgers: Something Wonderful - From The King and I; Lloyd Webber: Tell Me on a Sunday - From Song and Dance; Weill: September Song - From Knickerbocker Holiday; Kern: All the Things You Are - From Very Warm for May; Sumner: August Winds - From The Last Ship.

On this day in movie history - Papillon (2017 movie & books):

Papillon

directed by Michael Noer,

written by Aaron Guzikowski,

based on the books Papillon and Banco by Henri Charrière,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Canada, on September 7, 2017.
Music by David Buckley.

Cast:

Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Christopher Fairbank, Yorick van Wageningen, Roland Møller, Tommy Flanagan, Eve Hewson, Michael Socha, Brian Vernel, Ian Beattie, Nicholas Asbury, Nikola Kent, Slavko Sobin, Joel Basman, Luka Peroš, Demetri Goritsas.

Recommended reading:

Papillon

By Henri Charriere.

ASIN: B01N8YET21

Published by William Morrow.

First published 1969.

Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.

Banco:

The Further Adventures of Papillon

By Henri Charrière.

Published by Granada Publishing Limited.

First published 1972.

ISBN 13: 9780586040102

ISBN 10: 0586040102

ASIN: 0586040102

The sensational sequel to Papillon. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raiding exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries – robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 – when he decides to write the book that brings his international fame.

On this day in movie history - The Place Beyond the Pines (2012):

The Place Beyond the Pines

directed by Derek Cianfrance,

written by Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio and Darius Marder,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Canada, on September 7, 2012.

Music by Mike Patton.

Cast:

Ryan Gosling, Craig Van Hook, Eva Mendes, Olga Merediz, Ray Liotta, Angelo Anthony Pizza, Mahershala Ali, John Facci, Ben Mendelsohn, Tula (the dog), Penny (the dog), Cynthia Pelletier-Sullivan, Mackenzie Trainor, Nicole Califano, Shannon Plumb, Tracey Agustin, Ean Egas, Bob Dieterich, Thomas Mattice, Adam Nowicki, Mark J. Caruso, G. Douglas Griset, Vanessa Thorpe, Gail Martino, Brian Smyj, Bradley Cooper, Dorothy Rutherford, Paul Steele, Gabe Fazio, Rose Byrne, Travis Jackson Campbell, Harris Yulin, Jan Libertucci, Robert Clohessy, Bruce Greenwood, Subrina Dhammi, Heather Chestnut, Greta Seacat, Luke Pierucci, Jessica Layton, James J. Gleason, Patrick Husted, Emory Cohen, Joe B. McCarthy, Jefrey Pollock, Lynette Howell Taylor, Sarah Curcio, Dane DeHaan, Ephraim Benton, Mark McCracken, Adriel Linyear, Kevin Green, Jennifer Sober, Melissa Mills, Alex Pulling, Dante Shafer, Kayla Smalls, Frank J. Falvo, Leah Bliven, Whitney Hudson, Breanna Dolen, Hugh T. Farley, Michael Cullen.

On this day in television history - Carnivàle (2003 - 2005):

Carnivàle

created by Daniel Knauf,

was released on September 7, 2003,

and ran for two seasons until March 27, 2005.
Theme music by Wendy Melvoin.
Composed by Lisa Coleman.

Cast:

Nick Stahl, Michael J. Anderson, Tim DeKay, Patrick Bauchau, Debra Christofferson, Diane Salinger, Clea DuVall, Adrienne Barbeau, Brian Turk, John Fleck, Karyne Steben, Sarah Steben, Toby Huss, Cynthia Ettinger, Carla Gallo, Amanda Aday, John Carroll Lynch, Bree Walker, John Savage, Linda Hunt, Clancy Brown, Amy Madigan, Robert Knepper, Ralph Waite.

On this day in movie history - Popeye Doyle (1986):

Popeye Doyle

directed by Peter Levin,

written by Richard Di Lello,

was released in the United States on September 7, 1986.
Theme music by Brad Fiedel.

Cast:

Ed O’Neill, Matthew Laurance, James Handy, Candy Clark, George De La Pena, Audrey Landers, Nicholas Kadi, Elias Zarou, Gary Tacon, Phil Neilson, Elizabeth Lennie, Peter Virgile, Richard Monette, S.J. Fellowes, Guy Sanvido, Philip Williams, Linda Gambell, Chick Roberts, J.K. Simmons, Richard McMillan, Joanne Perica, Alexandra Innes, Tony Rosato, Todd Postlethwaite, Susan Diol, Molly Johnson, Norman Orenstein, Charles Woods Gray.

Born on this day – Alfa Anderson:

Alfa Anderson

Singer

Teacher

September 7, 1946 – December 17, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

C'est Chic (1978); Chic (1977); Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979); Music from My Heart (2017); Tongue in Chic (1982).

Songs:

A Warm Summer Night; At Last I Am Free; Bone; Chic Cheer; Chic Mystique; Chicism; Dance, Dance, Dance; Do That Dance; Do You Wanna Party; Everybody Dance; Good Times; Good Times / Rapper's Delight; Hangin'; Happy Man; I Want Your Love; I’ll Be There; I'm Coming Out; Jusagroove; Le Freak; My Feet Keep Dancing; My Forbidden Lover; Real People; São Paulo; Savoir Faire; Sober; Sometimes You Win; Soup for One; Till The World Falls; We Are Family; What About Me; Will You Cry; Would You Be My Baby.

Movies, television and video:

Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance (1978); Chic: Everybody Dance (1978); Chic: I Want Your Love (1979); Chic: Le Freak (1978); Coronation Street (2015–2016); Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker (2013); Unsung (2014).