Recommended reading - Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (2000):

Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist’s Maze

by Thomas Allen Nelson.

New and Expanded Edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0253213908

ISBN-13: 978-0253213907

Published 2000.

Description:

Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson’s perceptive and comprehensive study of Kubrick rescues him from the hostility of auteurist critics and discovers the roots of a Kubrickian aesthetic, which Nelson defines as the “aesthetics of contingency.” After analyzing how this aesthetic develops and manifests itself in the early works, Nelson devotes individual chapters to Lolita, Dr. Stangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining. For this expanded edition, Nelson has added chapters on Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, and, in the wake of the director’s death, reconsidered his body of work as a whole. By placing Kubrick in a historical and theoretical context, this study is a reliable guide into – and out of – Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic maze.

Lauren Oliver, on books:

But ... books are so much more.

Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners.

Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch.

And some of them – the best ones – are doors.

– Lauren Oliver.

On this day in movie history - The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021):

The Story of Film: A New Generation

a two-part documentary directed and written by Mark Cousins,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on July 6, 2021.
Narrated by Mark Cousins.

On this day in movie history - Private Detective 62 (1933):

Private Detective 62

directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Rian James,

based on a story by Raoul Whitfield,

was released in the United States on July 6, 1933.
Music by Bernhard Kaun.

Cast:

William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, Arthur Hohl, Natalie Moorhead, James Bell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Irving Bacon, Joan Barclay, Arthur Byron, Heinie Conklin, Eddie Dunn, Bill Elliott, Theresa Harris, Ann Hovey, Charles Lane, Eddie Phillips, Georges Renavent, Rolfe Sedan, Harry Seymour, Joan Standing, Sheila Terry, Ellinor Vanderveer, Renee Whitney, Charles C. Wilson, Pat Wing, Toby Wing.

On this day in movie history - Lights of New York (1928):

Lights of New York

directed by Bryan Foy,

written by Murray Roth and Hugh Herbert,

based on a story by Charles L. Gaskill,

was released in the United States on July 6, 1928.
Music by Louis Silvers.
Note: this was the first full-length all-talking movie.

Cast:

Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell, Robert Elliott, Eugene Pallette, Tom Dugan, Tom McGuire, Walter Percival, Guy D'Ennery, Jere Delaney, Harry Downing, Eddie Kane, Bob Perry.

Born on this day – Libby Titus:

Libby Titus

Singer

Songwriter

Actress

Composer

July 6, 1946 – October 13, 2024.

Credits:

Album:

Libby Titus (1977).

Songs:

At Last; Baby Close Its Eyes; Can This Be My Love Affair; Can't Believe You're Mine; Cloudy; Coconut Grove; Darkness 'Til Dawn; Driftin' Blues; Fancy Dancing Man; Fool That I Am; Green Flower Street; Groovin'; Holiday; In Tune; Intro; It’ll Never Happen Again; Kansas City; Love Has No Pride; Madison Time; Michael From Mountains; Minute By Minute; Miss Otis Regrets; People Got to Be Free; Pretzel Logic; Shakey Ground; Strawberry Fields Forever; The Fool on the Hill; The Night You Took Me To Barbados In My Dreams; The Sailor & the Mermaid; Together?; Wish I Could; Yellow Beach Umbrella; You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice; Younger Generation.

Movie and television:

12th Annual Music City News Awards (1978); A Concert: Behind Prison Walls (1977); Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2010); All Good Things (2010); Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987); Awakenings (1990); Big (1988); Energy and How to Get It (1981); Heartburn (1986); New York Stories / Segment: Life without Zoe (1989); Night and the City (1992); Saturday Night Live (1977); The Little Rascals (1994); The Mike Douglas Show (1979); Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993); Together? (1979); Working Girl (1988).

Born on this day – Ned Beatty:

Ned Beatty

Actor

July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021