Tuesday, July 23, 2024
On this day in movie history - Fear and Loathing in Aspen (2021)
Fear and Loathing in Aspen
directed and written by Bobby Kennedy III,
was released in the United States on July 23,
2021.
Music by Wayne Kramer.
On this day in movie history - Wolf Creek (2005)
Wolf Creek
directed and written by Greg McLean,
was released in Australia on July 23, 2005.
Inspired by the true Australian cases of Ivan
Milat (1996) and Bradley Murdoch (2001).
Music by Frank Tétaz.
Born on this day – Jon Landau:
Born on this day – Bruce Surtees:
Born on this day – Evelyn Lambart:
Credits:
A Chairy Tale
(1957); Around Is Around (1953); Begone Dull Care (1950); Challenge: Science
Against Cancer (1950); Family Tree (1950); Fine Feathers (1968); Les femmes
parmi nous (1961); Lines: Horizontal (1962); Lines: Vertical (1960); Mosaic
(1966); Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974); Now Is the Time (1951); O Canada
(1952); One Little Indian (1954); Paradise Lost (1970); Physical Regions of
Canada (1954); Putting It Straight (1957); River with a Problem (1961);
Rythmetic (1956); Short and Suite (1959); Sing a Little (1951); Story of a
Violin (1947); The Blackbird (1958); The Colour of Life (1955); The Embryonic
Development of Fish (1961); The Fight: Science Against Cancer (1950); The
Hoarder (1969); The Impossible Map (1947); The Lion and the Mouse (1976); The
Maple Leaf (1955); The Outlaw Within (1951); The Spruce Bog: An Essay in
Ecology (1957); The Story of Christmas (1973); The Town Mouse and the Country
Mouse (1980).
Born on this day – Aileen Pringle:
Credits:
1925 Studio
Tour (1925); A Kiss in the Dark (1925); A Single Man (1929); A Thief in
Paradise (1925); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Adam and Evil (1927);
Appointment for Love (1941); Beau Broadway (1928); Between Us Girls (1942);
Body and Soul (1927); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); By
Appointment Only (1933); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Camille (1926); Convicted
(1931); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Don't Marry for Money (1923); Dr. Gillespie's
Criminal Case (1943); Dream of Love (1928); Earthbound (1920); Happy Land
(1943); His Hour (1924); Hollywood Guests at San Simeon (Hearst Castle); (1931); In the Palace of the King (1923);
Jane Eyre (1934); John Meade's Woman (1937); Laura (1944); Life in Hollywood
No. 4 / 7 (1927); Love Past Thirty (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Married Flirts
(1924); Murder at Midnight (1931); My American Wife (1922); Name the Man!
(1924); Night Parade (1929); Nothing Sacred (1937); Oath-Bound (1922); Once to
Every Bachelor (1934); One Year to Live (1925); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Police
Court (1932); Prince of Diamonds (1930); Puttin' on the Ritz (1930); Screen
Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); She's No Lady
(1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Show People (1928); Since You Went Away
(1944); Soldiers and Women (1930); Sons of Steel (1934); Soul Mates (1925);
Souls for Sale (1923); Stolen Moments (1920); Subway Express (1931); Tea for
Three (1927); Telephone Time (1956); Thanks for Listening (1937); The Age of
Consent (1932); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Bride's Bereavement; or, the Snake
in the Grass (1932); The Christian (1923); The Cost (1920); The Five O'Clock
Girl (1928); The Great Deception (1926); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Last
of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Mystic (1925); The Night of Nights (1939); The
Phantom of Crestwood (1932); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Strangers' Banquet
(1922); The Tiger's Claw (1923); The Unguarded Hour (1936); The Wife of the
Centaur (1924); The Wilderness Woman (1926); The Women (1939); The Youngest Profession
(1943); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); Three Weeks (1924); Tin Gods
(1926); Too Hot to Handle (1938); True As Steel (1924); Vanessa, Her Love Story
(1935); Wall Street (1929); Wanted! Jane Turner (1936); Wickedness Preferred
(1928); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Wildfire (1925).
Born on this day – Florence Vidor:
Credits:
A Heart in
Pawn (1919); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio
(1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920);
Afraid to Love (1927); Alice Adams (1923); American Methods (1917); Are Parents
People? (1925); Barbara Frietchie (1924); Beau Revel (1921); Bill Peter's Kid
(1916); Borrowed Husbands (1924); Chinatown Nights (1929); Christine of the
Hungry Heart (1924); Conquering the Woman (1922); Curfew at Simpton Center
(1916); Doomsday (1928); Dusk to Dawn (1922); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Hail
the Woman (1921); Hashimura Togo (1917); Honeymoon Hate (1927); Husbands and
Lovers (1924); Lying Lips (1921); Main Street (1923); Marry Me (1925); Old
Wives for New (1918); One Woman to Another (1927); Poor Relations (1919); Real
Adventure (1922); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots,
Series 1, No. 19 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 2 (1920); Screen
Snapshots, Series 3, No. 11 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 2 (1922);
Sea Horses (1926); Skin Deep (1922); Souls for Sale (1923); The Bravest Way
(1918); The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917); The Countess Charming (1917); The Eagle
of the Sea (1926); The Enchanted Hill (1926); The Family Honor (1920); The Girl
of Gold (1925); The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926); The Hidden Pearls
(1918); The Honor of His House (1918); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The
Intrigue (1916); The Jack-Knife Man (1920); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); The
Marriage Circle (1924); The Mirage (1924); The Other Half (1919); The Patriot
(1928); The Popular Sin (1926); The Secret Game (1917); The Trouble with Wives
(1925); The Virginian (1923); The White Man's Law (1918); The Widow's Might
(1918); The World at Her Feet (1927); The Yellow Girl (1916); Till I Come Back
to You (1918); Welcome Stranger (1924); Woman, Wake Up (1922); You Never Know
Women (1926).
Born on this day – Raymond Chandler:
Credits:
Books:
Books to Die For (2012); Double Indemnity (1944); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); Five Murders (1944); Five Sinister Characters (1945); Goldfish (1981); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Hard-Boiled Detectives (1953); I’ll Be Waiting (2020); Killer in the Rain (1964); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Mandarin's Jade (1937); No Crimes In The Mountains (1941); Only to Sleep (2018); Pearls are a Nuisance (1958); Perchance to Dream (1991); Pickup on Noon Street (1952); Playback (1958); Poodle Springs (1989); Pulp Fiction - The Dames (2008); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Wind (1946); Selected Letters (1981); Smart-Aleck Kill (1953); Spanish Blood (1946); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Sleep (1939); The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014); The Blue Dahlia (1976); The Curtain (1936); The Finger Man (1947); The Goodbye Coast (2022); The High Window (1942); The Lady in the Lake (1943); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Little Sister (1949); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Man Who Liked Dogs (1996); The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Second Murderer (2023); The Simple Art of Murder (1950); The Smell of Fear (1965); The World of Raymond Chandler (2014); Trouble is My Business (1950); Try The Girl (1937); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).
Movies and television:
77 Sunset Strip (1958); And Now Tomorrow
(1944); Aspetterò (1978); Cineficción Radio (2021); Climax! (1954); Danger
(1953); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Farewell, My
Lovely (1975); Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler (2006); Ich werde warten
(1982); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lady in the
Lake (1946); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marlowe (1969
/ 2007 / 2022); Mike Case in: The Big Kiss Off (2013); Morning Patrol (1987);
Murder, My Sweet (1944); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Omnibus (1969); Once You
Meet a Stranger (1996); Philip Marlowe (1959–1960); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
(1983–1986); Poodle Springs (1998); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Schlitz
Playhouse (1957); Smart Philip (2003); Storyboard (1961); Strangers on a Train
(1951); Studio One (1951–1953); The Big Sleep (1946 / 1978); The Blue Dahlia
(1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Falcon Takes Over (1942); The Great
Detectives (1999); The Long Goodbye (1973 / 2014); The Long Goodbye: Tom
Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013); The Unseen (1945); Time to Kill (1942);
Triple Feature (2016); TV de Vanguarda (1957).
Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995)
ISBN-13: 978-1883011079
Paul Auster, on writing:
You don't choose it so much as get chosen,
and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else,
you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
- Paul Auster.