Saturday, August 31, 2024

The formula for a perfect day:

 
Drink good coffee.
Read good books.


On this day in music history - Red Velvet Car, by Heart (2010)


Red Velvet Car

by Heart

was released on August 31, 2010.




On this day in movie history - Friedkin Uncut (2018)

 
Friedkin Uncut

documentary directed and written by Francesco Zippel,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 31, 2018.

Music by Costanza Francavilla.
 
Cast:
William Friedkin, Wes Anderson, Dario Argento, Samuel Blumenfeld, Ellen Burstyn, Damien Chazelle, Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Caleb Deschanel, Gina Gershon, Walon Green, Randy Jurgensen, Philip Kaufman, Matthew McConaughey, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Monda, Gianandrea Noseda, William Petersen, Michael Shannon, Quentin Tarantino, Juno Temple, Edgar Wright, Thierry Frémaux, Walter Hill, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Mark Kermode, Sherry Lansing.


On this day in movie history - What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018)


What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

documentary directed and written by Rob Garver,

was released at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States on August 31, 2018.

Music by Rick Baitz.


Cast:
Pauline Kael, John Guare, David Edelstein, Greil Marcus, Gina James, Camille Paglia, Brian Kellow, Craig Seligman, Jaime Manrique, Daryl Chin, Dick Cavett, Lili Anolik, Edward Landberg, James Wolcott, Paul Schrader, Molly Haskell, Phillip Lopate, David O. Russell, Christopher Durang, Chester Villilba, Ortrun Niesar, Dirk Van Nouhays, Carol Van Strum, Stevens Van Strum, Marcia Nasatir, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Towne, Joe Morgenstern, George Malko, Daniel Menaker, John Boorman, Tom Pollock, David Lean, Woody Allen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Sragow, Jerry Lewis, David V. Picker, William Peter Blatty, Johnny Carson, Norman Mailer, Francis Ford Coppola, Carrie Rickey, Ridley Scott, Stephanie Zacharek, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jackie Netis, Mike Pollock, Joel Haberli, Amanda Sykes, Debbie Irwin, Michael Bryan, Cliff Resnick, Rob Garver, Carol Baum, Thomas Baum, Jean-Paul Belmondo, James Broughton, George Chakiris, Joan Collins, Keir Dullea, Robert Evans, Dick Hogan, Maila Nurmi, Diana Ross, Shawn Shillingford, Gene Siskel, George Williams.