On this day in movie history - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz,

based on a story by George Lucas,

was released in the United States on May 23, 1984.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Ric Young, Chua Kah Joo, Rex Ngui, Philip Tan, Dan Aykroyd, Akio Mitamura, Michael Yama, D.R. Nanayakkara, Dharmadasa Kuruppu, Stany De Silva, Ruby de Mel, Denavaka Hamine, Iranganie Serasinghe, Dharshana Panangala, Raj Singh, Frank Olegario, Ahmed El Shenawi, Arthur F. Repola, Nizwar Karanj, Pat Roach, Moti Makan, Mellan Mitchell, Bhasker Patel, Arjun Pandher, Zia Gelani, Debbie Astell, Maureen Bacchus, Corinne Barton, Carol Beddington, Sharon Boone, Elizabeth Burville, Marisa Campbell, Christine Cartwright, Andrea Chance, Jan Colton, Louise Dalgleish, Lorraine Doyle, Vanessa Fieldwright, Brenda Glassman, Elaine Gough, Sue Hadleigh, Sarah-Jane Hassell, Samantha Hughes, Julie Kirk, Deirdre Laird, Vicki McDonald, Nina McMahon, Julia Marstand, Gaynor Martine, Lisa Mulidore, Dawn Reddall, Rebekkah Sekyi, Clare Smalley, Lee Sprintall, Jenny Turnock, Ruth Welby, Steven Spielberg, Yash Agnihotri, Dickey Beer, Kenneth Coombs, Sidney Ganis, Billy Horrigan, Kathleen Kennedy, Brad Kesten, Alex Klaus, Patrick Loh, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Anthony Powell, Guy Standeven, Ron Taylor.

On this day in movie history - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by David Koepp,

based on a story by George Lucas and Jeff Nathanson,

was released in the United States on May 20, 2008.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Igor Jijikine, Dimitri Diatchenko, Emmanuel Todorov, Ilia Volok, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Andrew Divoff, Venya Manzyuk, Alan Dale, Joel Stoffer, Neil Flynn, Chet Hanks, Brian Knutson, Dean Grimes, Sasha Spielberg, Nicole Luther, Sophia Stewart, Chris Todd, Dennis Nusbaum, T. Ryan Mooney, Audi Resendez, Helena Barrett, Carlos Linares, Gustavo Hernandez, Maria Luisa Minelli, Nito Larioza, Ernie Reyes Jr., Jon Valera, Kevin Collins, Robert Baker.

Recommended reading – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2002)

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

by Christiane Kubrick.

Foreword by Steven Spielberg.
Hardcover.
 
ISBN-10: 0821228153
ISBN-13: 978-0821228159
 
Description:
 

Few cinematic figures can boast the scope, breadth, talent, and influence of Stanley Kubrick. Visionary, auteur, artist, director.... His brilliant canon of films is unsurpassed in modern cinema, from the futuristic vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the dark artistry of A Clockwork Orange, from the black comedy of Dr. Strangelove to the psychological horror of The Shining, from the stark realism of Paths of Glory to the dreamlike romance of Eyes Wide Shut.

 

Now, the astonishing career of this cinematic legend is remembered in perhaps the most fitting way: in pictures. With an accompanying commentary by his widow, Christiane, Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Pictures is a wide-ranging and wonderful collection. Featuring a wealth of never-before-seen photographs, it offers a fascinating glimpse of Kubrick behind the camera, from his directorial beginnings in the early 1950s to his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, completed just six days before his death in March 1999.

On this day in television history - The Pacific (2010)

The Pacific

10-part mini-series.

Produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, HBO, Playtone, DreamWorks, Seven Network and Sky Movies.

Based on the books With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.

Released in the United States on March 14, 2010.

Music by Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli and Hans Zimmer.

Episode titles:

Guadalcanal / Leckie; Basilone; Melbourne; Gloucester / Pavuvu / Banika; Peleliu Landing; Peleliu Airfield; Peleliu Hills; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Home. 

Cast:

James Badge Dale, Ashton Holmes, Josh Helman, Keith Nobbs, Jacob Pitts, Toby Leonard Moore, Henry Nixon, Tom Budge, Caroline Dhavernas, Joseph Mazzello, Rami Malek, Martin McCann, Brendan Fletcher, Linda Cropper, Conor O'Farrell, Dylan Young, Leon Ford, Scott Gibson, Gary Sweet, Jon Seda, Joshua Bitton, William Sadler, Jon Bernthal, Annie Parisse.

Steven Spielberg, on movies and stories:

 

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects ...
but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

- Steven Spielberg.

On this day in movie history - Always (1989)

Always

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Jerry Belson and Diane Thomas,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1989.

Based on the movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), directed by Victor Fleming and John E. Burch.

Music by John Williams.

 

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn, Roberts Blossom, Keith David, Ed Van Nuys, Marg Helgenberger, Dale Dye, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones, Kim Robillard, Jim Sparkman, Doug McGrath, Shereil L. Bowens, Ascension Fuentes, Todd Jacobson, DeMarious T. Morganfield, Mike O'Neal, Larry Landless, Steve Shatnyski, James Pruitt, Joseph McCrossin, JD Souther, David Jackson, David Kitay, Gene Strimling, Roy E. Harrison, Ted Grossman, Gerry Rothschild, Loren Smothers, Taleena Ottwell, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Braveheart, Jim Dunkin, Douglas 'Hurricane' Hall, Tim Hiser, Jaclyn Nagata, Joseph Michael Roth.

On this day in movie history - Schindler’s List (1993)

Schindler’s List

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Steven Zaillian,

based on the book Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally,

was released in the United States on November 30, 1993.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Małgorzata Gebel, Mark Ivanir, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Jerzy Nowak, Norbert Weisser, Albert Misak, Michael Gordon, Aldona Grochal, Uri Avrahami, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna Mucha, Adi Nitzan, Jacek Wójcicki, Beata Paluch, Piotr Polk, Bettina Kupfer, Grzegorz Kwas, Kamil Krawiec, Henryk Bista, Ezra Dagan, Rami Heuberger, Elina Löwensohn, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Wojciech Klata, Paweł Deląg, Hans-Jörg Assmann, August Schmölzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Daniel Del Ponte, Adam Siemion, Jochen Nickel, Ludger Pistor, Oliwia Dąbrowska.

On this day in movie history - The Making of Jaws (1995)

 

The Making of Jaws

documentary directed and written by Laurent Bouzereau,

released in the United States on November 28, 1995.

Cast:

Steven Spielberg, Peter Benchley, David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck, Carl Gottlieb, Ron Taylor, Valerie Taylor, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Sid Sheinberg, Susan Backlinie, Ted Grossman, Joe Alves, Robert A. Mattey / Bob Mattey, Bill Butler, Richard / Dick Warlock, Verna Fields, John Williams, Bruce (the shark).

On this day in movie history - The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999)

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

documentary directed by Paul Joyce,

was released in the United Kingdom on November 19, 1999.

Cast:

John Boorman, Tom Cruise, Jan Harlan, Nicole Kidman, Anya Kubrick, Christiane Kubrick, Katharina Kubrick, Sydney Pollack, Steven Spielberg.

Recommended reading - 4 books on Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

by Steven Spielberg.
 
Published 1978.
ISBN-10: 0440114330
ISBN-13: 978-0722180808
 
Back cover description:
 
Watch the skies …
 
Close Encounter of the First Kind:
Sighting of an Unidentified Object.
 
Close Encounter of the Second Kind:
Physical evidence after UFO sighting.
 
Close Encounter of the Third Kind:
Actual contact between human observers and UFO occupants.
 

All over the world, millions of reliable witnesses – including respected scientists – have been reporting UFO sightings for the past thirty years. Experts everywhere concede the overwhelming probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. From these indisputable facts, Steven Spielberg, brilliant young director of Jaws, has created the most beautiful, frightening and significant motion picture adventure of all time.

 

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Fotonovel

by Steven Spielberg.
 
Published 1978.
ISBN-10: 0440109795
ISBN-13: 978-0440109792
 
Back cover description:
 
Close Encounter of the First Kind:
Sighting of a UFO.
 
Close Encounter of the Second Kind:
Physical evidence.
 
Close Encounter of the Third Kind:
Contact.
 
Mankind is off on the greatest adventure in the history of our planet.
And nothing will ever be the same.
For now there is no denying the inescapable conclusion:
We are not alone.
 
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary

by Bob Balaban.
 
Published 1978.
ISBN-10: 0931550009
ISBN-13: 978-0931550003
 
Back cover description:
 
“I loved it. This is a book I would like to have written myself. I could kick myself for not keeping my own diary.” – Richard Dreyfuss.
 

Bob Balaban plays Francois Truffaut’s interpreter in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since all journalists and writers were barred during the shooting of the movie, his diary is the only on the spot account of both the making of the movie and, more importantly, the off-screen lives of the people involved in this fantastic project.

 

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Ultimate Visual History

by Michael Klastorin.

 
Published 2017.
ISBN-10: 0062692992
ISBN-13: 978-0062692993
 
Back cover description:
 

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of director Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind with this fully authorized behind-the-scenes book exploring the creation, production, and legacy of this iconic film.

 

Created in conjunction with Sony Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Visual History details the complete creative journey behind the making of the film and examines its cultural impact.

 

Featuring rare and never-before-seen imagery from the archives, the book brings together a stunning collection of on-set photography, concept art, storyboards, and more to create a complete visual narrative of the film’s journey to the big screen. It also features a wealth of insightful commentary from the film’s key contributors, including exclusive new interviews with director Steven Spielberg, star Richard Dreyfuss, and composer John Williams.

 

The book also features a wealth of special inserts and interactive elements, including script pages featuring notes from Spielberg, concept sketches of the film’s UFOs and aliens, and much, much more.

 

Comprehensive, compelling, and filled with unseen treasures, Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Ultimate Visual History is a fitting tribute to an unforgettable film.

On this day in movie history - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

directed and written by Steven Spielberg,

was released in the United States on November 16, 1977.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds, Cary Guffey, Shawn Bishop, Adrienne Campbell, Justin Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen, Merrill Connally, George DiCenzo, Amy Douglass, Alexander Lockwood, Gene Dynarski, Mary Gafrey, Norman Bartold, Josef Sommer, Michael J. Dyer, Roger Ernest, Carl Weathers, F.J. O'Neil, Phil Dodds, Randy Mark Herman, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, David Anderson, Richard L. Hawkins, Craig Shreeve, Bill Thurman, Roy E. Richards, Gene Rader, Eumenio Blanco, Daniel Nunez, Chuy Franco, Luis Contreras, James Keane, Dennis McMullen, Cy Young, Tom Howard, Richard Stuart, Bob Westmoreland, Matt Emery, Galen Thompson, John Dennis Johnston, John Ewing, Keith Atkinson, Robert Broyles, Kirk Raymond, Bennett Wayne Dean Sr., Danyi Deats, Jenny Inge Devaney. Basil Hoffman, J. Allen Hynek, Monty Jordan, Shay McLean, Dejah Moore, Carl Neal, Monty O'Grady, Julia Phillips, Murray Pollack, Stephen Powers, David Rambow, Howard K. Smith.