On this day in music history - Gish, by The Smashing Pumpkins (1991)

Gish

by The Smashing Pumpkins,

was released on May 28, 1991.

Track list:

I am one; Siva; Rhinoceros; Bury me; Crush; Suffer; Snail; Tristessa; Window paine; Daydream.

#IAmOne #Siva #Daydream

Joseph Addison, on reading:

 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison.

On this day in movie history - Vertigo (movie, novel and book of the movie):

Vertigo

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor,

based on the novel D’entre les morts,

translation: From Among the Dead, by Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac),

was released in the United States on May 28, 1958.

Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast:

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, David Ahdar, Isabel Analla, Jack Ano, Margaret Bacon, John Benson, Danny Borzage, Margaret Brayton, Paul Bryar, Boyd Cabeen, Steve Conte, Jean Corbett, Bruno Della Santina, Roxann Delman, Harry Denny, Molly Dodd, Bess Flowers, Raoul Freeman, Joe Garcio, Joanne Genthon, Kenneth Gibson, Don Giovanni, Roland Gotti, Victor Gotti, Fred Graham, Robert Haines, Buck Harrington, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmie Horan, Art Howard, Catherine Howard, June Jocelyn, Perk Lazelle, John Marlin, Miliza Milo, Lyle Moraine, Forbes Murray, Julian Petruzzi, Ezelle Poule, Kathy Reed, William Remick, Jack Richardson, Jeffrey Sayre, Nina Shipman, Dori Simmons, Ed Stevlingson, Sara Taft.

Recommended reading:

D’entre les morts, translation: From Among the Dead

by Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac).

Filmed as Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Published by Pushkin Vertigo.
First published 1954.

ISBN-10: 1782279741
ISBN-13: 978-1782279747
 
Description:
 

In World War II-era Paris, a troubled-ex policeman is entangled in a web of deceit and lies when he investigates a woman’s strange behavior.

 

Flavières doesn’t really want to investigate his old’s friend’s wife, but he doesn’t feel he has much of a choice. Madeleine has been behaving strangely, and her husband wants answers – answers that she isn’t willing to give him.

 

As WWII rages around him, Flavières is drawn into an obsessive cat-and-mouse chase across Paris. Soon his intrigue is replaced by obsession and his dreams by nightmares, as he edges towards discovering a dark, terrible secret.

 

The most celebrated collaboration of a ground-breaking crime-writing duo, Vertigo is the timeless story of morality and revenge, and the inspiration for Hitchcock’s iconic film.

Vertigo

by Charles Barr.

Published by British Film Institute.
Published 2012.
2nd edition.

ISBN-10: 1844574989
ISBN-13: 9781844574988
 
Description:

Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions both as an embodiment of the supremely seductive visual pleasures that 'classical Hollywood' could offer and – with the help of an elaborate plot twist – as a laying bare of their dangerous dark side. The film's core is a study in romantic obsession, as James Stewart's Scottie pursues Madeleine / Judy (Kim Novak) to her death in a remote Californian mission. Novak is ice cool but vulnerable, Stewart – in the darkest role of his career – genial on the surface but damaged within.

Although it can be seen as Hitchcock's most personal film, Charles Barr argues that, like Citizen Kane, Vertigo is at the same time a triumph not so much of individual authorship as of creative collaboration. He highlights the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons why Vertigo continues to inspire such fascination.

In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Barr looks afresh at Vertigo alongside the recently-rediscovered 'lost' silent The White Shadow (1924), scripted by Hitchcock, which also features the trope of the double, and at the acclaimed contemporary silent film The Artist (2011), which pays explicit homage to Vertigo in its soundtrack.

Born on this day – Mona Dol:

 

Mona Dol

Actress

May 28, 1901 – December 29, 1990

Credits:

A Place in the Sun (1951); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Above Suspicion (1943); Adam's Rib (1949); Ainsi finit la nuit (1949); Angel and Sinner (1945); Angel and the Badman (1947); Ball of Fire (1941); Bernard père et fils (1945); Bourrachon (1935); Bright Leaf (1950); Casanova Brown (1944); Danger de mort (1947); Dead Reckoning (1946); Des quintuplés au pensionnat (1953); Deux sous de violettes (1951); El pequeño coronel (1960); En légitime défense (1958); Father of the Bride (1950); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Force of Evil (1948); Heritage (1936); His Father's Portrait (1953); In a Lonely Place (1950); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Joan of Arc (1948); La symphonie fantastique (1942); La visiteuse (1947); Le bout de la route (1949); Le chanteur de minuit (1937); Le joueur (1958); Le mariage de Ramuntcho (1947); Le parfum de la dame en noir (1949); Le voyageur de la Toussaint (1943); L'école des contribuables (1934); L'école des journalistes (1936); L'enfant des neiges (1951); Les aventures de Salavin (1964); Les deux poulains de Lucette (1925); Les époux scandaleux (1935); Les frères Bouquinquant (1947); Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938); L'homme du jour (1937); L'homme sans Coeur (1937); Love Around the Clock (1943); Lucrezia Borgia (1935); Madame Sans-Gêne (1941); Mädchen in Uniform (1958); Mam'zelle Bonaparte (1942); Marie-Martine (1943); Matricule 33 (1933); Mensonges (1946); Messieurs Ludovic (1946); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Paix sur le Rhin (1938); Par la fenêtre (1948); Pastoral Symphony (1946); Premier de cordée (1944); Raintree County (1957); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Reflets de Cannes (1959); Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960); Sacré Léonce (1936); Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Service de nuit (1944); Si ça peut vous faire plaisir (1948); Strangers on a Train (1951); Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Tapage nocturne (1951); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Blue Veil (1942); The cheat (1949); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946); The Fire Within (1963); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); The Little Foxes (1941); The Naked City (1948); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Nun's Story (1959); The Snake Pit (1948); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Stranger (1946); Tombé du ciel (1946); Totò cerca casa (1949); Under Capricorn (1949); Une fille épatante (1955); Union Station (1950); Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941).

Born on this day – Ian Fleming:

Ian Fleming

Writer

May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964

Born on this day – Natalie Norwick:

 

Natalie Norwick

Actress

May 28, 1923 – December 20, 2007

Credits:

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956); 87th Precinct (1961); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Ben Casey (1962); Big Town (1955); Boots and Saddles (1957); Cavalcade of America (1955); Crusader (1955); Dark Shadows (1968–1969); Death Valley Days (1955); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1957); Dragnet (1958); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1962); Hidden Fear (1957); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Law of the Plainsman (1960); M Squad (1957); Matinee Theatre (1955); Medic (1954); Mike Hammer (1959); Navy Log (1956); Perry Mason (1958–1964); Ryan's Hope (1976); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Star Trek (1966); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Studio 57 (1955); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Clock (1950); The D.A.'s Man (1959); The Detectives (1962); The Edge of Night (1982); The Halls of Ivy (1955); The Lineup (1954); The Millionaire (1956); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Rebel (1960); The Star and the Story (1956); The Thin Man (1957); You Are There (1955); Zane Grey Theatre (1961).

Born on this day – György Ligeti:

György Ligeti

Composer

May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006

Credits:

Music:

Allegro (1943); Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet (1950); Apparitions (1958–1959); Artikulation (1958); Atmosphères (1961); Aventures (1962); Baladă și joc (Ballad and Dance) (1950); Betlehemi királyok (Kings of Bethlehem) (1946); Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946); Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947); Cello Concerto (1966); Chamber Concerto (1969–1970); Chromatische Phantasie (1956); Clocks and Clouds (1973); Concert românesc (1951); Continuum (1968); Continuum (1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos); Continuum (1970); Coulée (1969); Der Sommer (1989); Double Concerto (1972); Due capricci (1947); Éjszaka – Reggel (Night, morning) (1955); Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985); Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–1994); Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995–2001); Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941); Fragment (1961); From Études pour piano, Book 2:Ha folyóvíz volnék (1947); Haj, ifjuság! (Hey, youth!) (1951); Hamburg Concerto (1998–1999); Harmonies (1967); Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950); Három Weöres-dal (Three Weöres Songs) (1946–1947); Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg (1982); Hortobágy (1951); Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978); Húsvét (Easter) (1946); Idegen földön (Far from home) (1945–1946); Inaktelki nóták (Tunes from Inaktelk) (1953); Induló (March) (1942); Invention (1948); Kállai kettős (1952); Lakodalmas (Wedding dance) (1950); L'arrache-coeur (1994); Le Grand Macabre (1975–1977); lissandi (1957); Lontano (1967); Lux Aeterna (1966); Magány (Solitude) (1946); Magos Kősziklának (From the high rocks) (1946); Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after Sándor Weöres (1983); Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from Mátraszentimre) (1955); Melodien (1971); Musica ricercata (1951–1953); Négy lakodalmi tánc (1950); No. IX: Vertige (1990); No. VII: Galamb borong (1988); No. X: Der Zauberlehrling (1994); No. XI: En suspens (1994); No. XIII: L'escalier du diable (1993); No. XIVa: Coloana fără sfârşit (original version for Player Piano) (1993); Nonsense madrigals (1988–1993); Nouvelles Aventures (1962–1965); Öt Arany-dal (Five Arany Songs) (1952); Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953); Passacaglia ungherese (1978); Piano Concerto (1985–88); Pièce électronique no. 3 (1957–1958); Pletykázó asszonyok (1952); Poème Symphonique (1962); Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943); Ramifications (1968–1969); Requiem, for soprano and mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (1963–1965); Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953); Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape (1976); San Francisco Polyphony (1973–1974); Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000); Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953); Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953); Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–1994); Sonatina (1950); String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953–1954); String Quartet No. 2 (1968); Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968); The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet (1985); Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin (1982); Three Pieces for Two Pianos – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (1976); Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982); Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor (1961); Violin Concerto (1989–93); Volumina (1961–62, revised 1966).

Movies and television:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2020: a toilet paper odyssey (2020); 56 villanás (2007); A Warning to the Curious (1972); Anónimo (2003); As Above, So Below (2014); Aurora (2018); Bang Bang Orangutang (2005); Barbie (2023); Berlin murmures (1991); Beyond My Reflection (2015); Blink of an Eye (2015); Brainwash (2010); Bruno n'a pas d'agent (1999); C'è musica & musica (1972); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Club 2 (1983); Csalog-Kurtág-Ligeti; Der Paradiesgarten (1970); Die Früchte der Arbeit (1977); Ekpyrosis (2013); Elemental Mass (2013); Embers (2015); Enter the Green Abyss (2022); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Fist of Fury (1972); For the End of Time (2009); Giraffe (2019); Godzilla (2014); György Ligeti - Ein Komponist gibt Auskunft (1970); Heat (1995); Homecoming (2018); Hot for Cash (1974); Intervalo (2012); Jean Tardieu ou le 'voir-dit' (1991); Kinderspiel (2015); Klang aus dem Chaos - Aspekte der Neuen Musik (1969); La ira (1989); Le Grand Macabre (2012); Lemming (2005); Letters from War (2016); Little Spain (2011); Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier (1988); Magánszám - Üljön le Hajós Andrással! (2003); Másnap (2004); Mediterranea (2011); Memoir of War (2017); Menschen & Mächte (2016); Merci La Vie (1991); Miss Gulag (2007); Mission Hill (1999–2002); Morrer no mar (1984); Musica ricercata (2023); Mutter (2002); NDR Talk Show (1989); Omnibus (1976); Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A Film by Orson Welles (2011); Other Worlds (2020); Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010); Paper Girls (2022); Polyformia (2008); Reel Iconic (2015); Requiem (1986); Schalcken the Painter (1979); Screen Two (1985); Shutter Island (2010); Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Strada Pia (1983); Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (2015); The Fear (El Miedo);  (2006); The Great Performance (2008); The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017); The Miracle of Tekir (2015); The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012); The Shining (1980); The Silent Witness (1978); The Trouville Zone (2013); The Vanity (2020); The War (2007); The Whole Town's Sleeping (2014); The Young Hitchikers (1971); Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä (2002); Um Filme Sem História (2002); Viagem a Portugal (2011); Winterspelt 1944 (1978).