Monday, August 12, 2024
On this day in movie history - Anthropoid (2016)
On this day in movie history - Hell or High Water (2016)
Hell or High Water
directed by David Mackenzie,
written by Taylor Sheridan,
was released in the United States on August 12, 2016.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
I'm not typically a fan of this genre, but I have fond memories of the movie after my hubby and I had an empty theater to ourselves on my birthday a few years back to enjoy watching Hell or High Water.
On this day in movie history - Young Guns (1988)
On this day in movie history - Darker Than Amber (1970)
Darker Than Amber
directed by Robert Clouse,
written by Ed Waters,
based on the novel by John D. MacDonald,
was released in the United States on August 12, 1970.
Music by John Carl Parker.
Born on this day – John Cazale:
Born on this day – William Goldman:
Writer
Author and/or screenwriter of Marathon Man,
Princess Bride (book and screenplay), Heat
August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018
Credits:
Books:
Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).
Movies and television:
5 Minutes
(2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of
Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100
Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases
(2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All
Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True:
The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's
Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters
(2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The
Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000);
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci
(1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003);
Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to
Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering
'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look
(2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001);
Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the
Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993);
Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an
Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating
'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie
Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100
Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga
Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon
(1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A
Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies
(2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963);
Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018
(2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
(2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards
(1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's
Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to
Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face
(2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars
(2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of
(1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of
the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the
Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year
of the Comet (1992).
#WilliamGoldman #MarathonMan #PrincessBride #Heat
Born on this day – Cecil B. DeMille:
Director
Producer
Actor
August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959
Born on this day – Mary Roberts Rinehart:
Books:
Recommended reading - The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (2011)
ISBN-13: 978-1584799184
Bee history, trivia, and lore.
Uses for honey, beeswax, and pollen.
Recipes and craft projects.
Home remedies and beauty products.
Margaret Atwood, on writing:
– Margaret Atwood.