On this day in movie history - Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015)

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

a documentary directed and written by Daniel Raim,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 23, 2015.

Music by David Lebolt.

Cast:

Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Bill Krohn, Stuart Cornfeld, Mel Brooks, Danny DeVito, Jim Bissell, Norman Newberry, Rick Carter, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Gabriel Hardman, Marc Wanamaker, Thomas A. Walsh, Alan Michelson, Anahid Nazarian, Tom Waits, Richard Sylbert, Patrick Mate, Tish Hicks, Will Vought, Dennis Michelson.

On this day in movie and book history - The Godfather (1972)

 

The Godfather

directed by Francis Ford Coppola,

written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola,

based on the novel by Mario Puzo,

was released in the United States on March 14, 1972.

Music by Nino Rota.

 
Cast:

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, John Cazale, Rudy Bond, Al Martino, Morgana King, Lenny Montana, John Martino, Salvatore Corsitto, Richard Bright, Alex Rocco, Tony Giorgio, Vito Scotti, Tere Livrano, Victor Rendina, Jeannie Linero, Julie Gregg, Ardell Sheridan, Simonetta Stefanelli, Angelo Infanti, Corrado Gaipa, Franco Citti, Saro Urzì, Frank Albanese, Chris Anastasio, Norm Bacchiocchi, Max Brandt, Tybee Brascia, Garrett Cassell, Carmine Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Italia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Don Costello, Robert Dahdah, Richard Fass, Gray Frederickson, Ron Gilbert, Anthony Gounaris, Joe Lo Grippo, Sonny Grosso, Louis Guss, Bobra Harris, Merril E. Joels, Randy Jurgensen, Tony King, Paul Lambert, Peter Lemongello, Tony Lip, Lou Martini Jr., Raymond Martino, Joseph Medaglia, Carol Morley, Dave Moskin, Rick Petrucelli, Joe Petrullo, Burt Richards, Sal Richards, Chuck Riley, Tom Rosqui, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Nino Ruggeri, Frank Sivero, Filomena Spagnuolo, Joe Spinell, Gabriele Torrei, Nick Vallelonga, Ed Vantura, Ron Veto, Matthew Vlahakis, Ilene Woods, Conrad Yama.

Recommended reading:

The Godfather

by Mario Puzo.

Filmed as The Godfather (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Published by Berkley.
First published 1969.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0451205766
ISBN-13: 978-0451205766

Description:

“A staggering triumph...The definitive novel about a sinister fraternity of crime.” – The Saturday Review.

“You can’t stop reading it, and you’ll find it hard to stop dreaming about it.” – New York Magazine.

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA.

Mario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon – nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.

A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched. A tale of family and society, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it reveals the dark passions of human nature played out against a backdrop of the American dream.

With a Note from Anthony Puzo and an Afterword by Robert J. Thompson.

 

On this day in movie history - Heart of Darkness (1994 movie & novel):

 

Heart of Darkness

directed by Nicolas Roeg,

written by Benedict Fitzgerald,

based on the novel by Joseph Conrad,

released in the United States on March 13, 1994.

Music by Stanley

.

Cast: Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé, James Fox, Morten Faldaas, Patrick Ryecart, Michael Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Hutchings, Peter Vaughan, Phoebe Nicholls, Allan Corduner, Jan Tríska, Alan Scarfe, Michael Cronin, Iman, Timothy Bateson, Stephen Oxley, John Savident, Charles Kay, Ian McDiarmid, Bhime Souaré, Candice Daly.

Recommended reading:

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad.

Mass Market Paperback
First published 1899.
Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN 13: 9780140431681
ISBN 10: 0140431683
ASIN: B001KTM47C

Author Joseph Conrad based this novella on his own personal experiences, during a voyage up the Congo River in 1890.

This novella was the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Description:

Written in the last year of the nineteenth century, Heart of Darkness can be seen in many ways as the first twentieth-century novel.

Its climate of doubt and vagueness, its loss of moral confidence and its need for belief in the midst of spiritual wilderness, its exploration of the subconscious and its affirmation of individual freedom are all themes that were to have an influence on writers such as Orwell, Godling Céline, Borges and Eliot.

In Heart of Darkness Conrad unfolds the story of Marlow’s search for Mr Kurtz, the company agent whose ‘unlawful soul’ has been ‘beguiled beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations’ in his dealings with the natives of the Belgian Congo. Marlow’s adventure involves him in a crucial reappraisal of his own values. It is Kurtz, however, who attains to a vision of the inexpressible, terrifying reality of the heart in this extraordinary exploration of human savagery and despair.

Book cover image: The Steamer Stanley, by F. Hens.

Recommended reading - In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

 

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

by Walter Murch (2001)

Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola.

Published by Silman-James Press.
2nd edition.

Published 2001.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1879505622
ISBN-13: 978-1879505629
 
Description:

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's pages) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.

On this day in movie history - The Godfather Part III (1990)

 

The Godfather Part III

directed by Francis Ford Coppola,

written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola,

was released in the United States on December 20, 1990.

Music by Carmine Coppola.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola, Raf Vallone, Franc D’Ambrosio, Donal Donnelly, Richard Bright, Helmut Berger, Don Novello, John Savage, Franco Citti, Mario Donatone, Vittorio Duse, Enzo Robutti, Michele Russo, Al Martino, Robert Cicchini, Rogerio Miranda, Carlos Miranda, Vito Antuofermo, Robert Vento, Willie Brown, Jeannie Linero, Jeanne Savarino Pesch, Janet Savarino Smith, Tere Livrano, Carmine Caridi, Don Costello, Al Ruscio, Mickey Knox, Rick Aviles, Michael Bowen, Brett Halsey, Gabriele Torrei, John Abineri, Brian Freilino, Gregory Corso, Marino Masé, Dado Ruspoli, Valeria Sabel, Remo Remotti, Luigi Laezza, Giuseppe Pianviti, Santo Indelicato, Simonetta Stefanelli, Francesco Paolo Bellante, Paco Reconti, Mimmo Cuticchio, Richard Honigman, Nicky Blair, Anthony Guidera, Frank Tarsia, Diana Agostini, Jessica DiCicco, Catherine Scorsese, Ida Bernardini, Joe Drago, David Hume, James D. Damiano, Michael Boccio, Frank Albanese, Marilee Albert, Salvatore Billa, Sal Borgese, Angelo Boscariol, Ludovico Caldarera, Homer Hut, John Cazale, Enrico Cesaretti, Geoffrey Copleston, Anton Coppola, Carmine Coppola, Gia Coppola, Tony Devon, Frank Ferrara, R. Emmett Fitzsimmons, Joe Fontana, Aldo Formisano, Luciano Foti, Paolo Gavanelli, Sal Lioni, Richard Maldone, Claudio Pacifico, Gianluca Petrazzi, Angelo Ragusa, Madelyn Renée Monti, Angelo Romero, Mitchell Shaw, David L. Thompson, Pietro Torrisi, F.X. Vitolo, Corinna Vozza, Claudio Zucchet.

On this day in movie history - The Godfather Part II (1974)

 

The Godfather Part II

directed by Francis Ford Coppola,

written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola,

based on the novel by Mario Puzo,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1974.

Music by Nino Rota.

 
Cast:

Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Gastone Moschin, Tom Rosqui, Bruno Kirby, Frank Sivero, Francesca De Sapio, Morgana King, Marianna Hill, Leopoldo Trieste, Dominic Chianese, Amerigo Tot, Troy Donahue, John Aprea, Joe Spinell, Abe Vigoda, Tere Livrano, Gianni Russo, Maria Carta, Oreste Baldini, Giuseppe Sillato, Mario Cotone, James Gounaris, Fay Spain, Harry Dean Stanton, James Murdock, Carmine Caridi, Danny Aiello, Carmine Foresta, Nick Discenza, Joseph Medaglia, William Bowers, Joseph Della Sorte, Carmen Argenziano, Joe Lo Grippo, Ezio Flagello, Livio Giorgi, Kathleen Beller, Saveria Mazzola, Tito Alba, Johnny Naranjo, Elda Maida, Salvatore Po, Ignazio Pappalardo, Andrea Maugeri, Peter LaCorte, Peter Donat, Tom Dahlgren, Paul B. Brown, Phil Feldman, Roger Corman, Ivonne Coll, Joe De Nicola, Edward Van Sickle, Gabriella Belloni, Richard Watson, Venancia Grangerard, Erica Yohn, Teresa Tirelli, Margaret Bacon, Al Beaudine, Jack Berle, James Caan, Dick Cherney, Italia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Victor Pujols Faneyte, Len Felber, Julie Gregg, Raven Grey Eagle, Larry Guardino, Dan Harris, George Holmes, Buck Houghton, Shep Houghton, Karyn Jansen, Kathryn Janssen, Ken Koc, Shô Kosugi, Gary Kurtz, Alan Lee, Laura Lyons, Alan Marston, Richard Matheson, John Megna, Joe Pine, Felipe Polanco, Jay Rasumny, Harrison Ressler, Al Roberts, Hank Robinson, Rhea Ruggiero, Carmelo Russo, George Simmons, Filomena Spagnuolo, Nico Stevens, Arthur Tovey, Julian Voloshin, Wally West, Judith Woodbury.

On this day in movie history - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola,

written by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1991.

Music by Todd Boekelheide.

Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Cast:

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Orson Welles, John Milius, George Lucas, Tom Sternberg, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Dean Tavoularis, Fred Roos, Martin Sheen, Vittorio Storaro, Robert Duvall, Rona Barrett, Tom Snyder, Monty Cox, Doug Claybourne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Randy Carter, Robert De Niro, J. David Jones.

On this day in movie history - Spielberg (2017)

Spielberg

a documentary on director Steven Spielberg,

directed by Susan Lacy,

was released at the New York Film Festival in the United States on October 5, 2017.

Cast:

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Richard Dreyfuss, Bill Butler, John Williams, David Edelstein, Michael Phillips, Nancy Spielberg, Anne Spielberg, Janet Maslin, Sue Spielberg, Leah Adler, Arnold Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, Sid Sheinberg, James Brolin, David Geffen, Roger Ernest, Steven Bochco, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Vilmos Zsigmond, Brian De Palma, Tony Kushner, Bob Balaban, Tom Hanks, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Melissa Mathison, Leonardo DiCaprio, A.O. Scott, Kathleen Kennedy, Harrison Ford, Tom Stoppard, Walter F. Parkes, Oprah Winfrey, J. Hoberman, Frank Marshall, Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Janusz Kaminski, Michael Kahn, Annette Insdorf, Dennis Muren, David Koepp, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Carter, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Meyer, Laurie MacDonald, Cate Blanchett, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Kasdan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Todd McCarthy, Tom Cruise, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Adam Somner, Joanna Johnston, Alan Alda, Karen Allen, William Atherton, Richard Attenborough, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Jessica Capshaw, Kate Capshaw, Dana Carvey, Bill Clinton, Sean Connery, Joan Crawford, Hugh Downs, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, Paul Freeman, Teri Garr, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Guffey, Goldie Hawn, Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Howell, Amy Irving, Ben Johnson, Wayne Knight, Shia LaBeouf, Marcia Lucas, K.C. Martel, Mike Myers, George Negus, Al Pacino, Fievel Posner, Dan Rather, John Rhys-Davies, Terry Richards, Oliver Robins, Mark Rylance, Roy Scheider, Gene Shalit, Robert Shaw, Dinah Shore, Tom Snyder, Rebecca Spielberg, Sasha Spielberg, Theo Spielberg, David Strathairn, Henry Thomas, François Truffaut, Dennis Weaver, Robert Young, Margaret Avery, Ruby Barnhill, Marlon Brando, Edward Burns, John Candy, David Costabile, Melinda Dillon, Dakota Fanning, Morgan Freeman, Adam Goldberg, Alec Guinness, Mark Hamill, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Byron Jennings, Tommy Lee Jones, Charlie Korsmo, Ronald Lacey, Maurice LaMarche, Lee Majors, Joseph Mazzello, Samantha Morton, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Kevin J. O'Connor, Peter O'Toole, Haley Joel Osment, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Ariana Richards, Miranda Richardson, Pat Roach, Geoffrey Rush, Amy Ryan, Omar Sharif, Martin Short, Tom Sizemore, Robert Stack, Christopher Walken, Dee Wallace, Robin Williams.

October in movie history - Porklips Now (1980)

Porklips Now

directed and written by Ernie Fosselius,

was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States in October 1980.

Exact release date unknown.

A short spoof of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Music by Dick Bright, Tom Donald, Ernie Fosselius and Ken Melville.

Cast:

Billy Gray, Ernie Fosselius, John Brent, Leon Martell, Mark Lee, Jim Turner, Larry Walker, Tom Bullock.

On this day in movie history - Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now

directed by Francis Ford Coppola

written by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, and

based on the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad,

was released in the United States on August 15, 1979.

Music by Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola.

Narrated by Martin Sheen.

Redux version released in 2001.

"the horror...the horror"

Cast:

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer, Harrison Ford, Scott Glenn, Colleen Camp, Cynthia Wood, Linda Beatty, Bill Graham, Francis Ford Coppola, Vittorio Storaro, R. Lee Ermey, Christian Marquand, Aurore Clément, Roman Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Michel Pitton, Franck Villard, David Olivier, Chrystel Le Pelletier, Robert Julian, Yvon Le Saux, Henri Sadardiel, Gilbert Renkens.

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On this day in movie history - The Terror (1963)

The Terror

directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale,

Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob and Jack Nicholson,

written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill and Roger Corman,

was released in France on May 30, 1963.

Music by Ronald Stein.

Cast:
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze