On this day in movie history - Gunn (1967)

Gunn

directed by Blake Edwards,

written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards,

based on a story by Blake Edwards,

was released in the United States on June 28, 1967.

Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner, Albert Paulsen, Sherry Jackson, Helen Traubel, Jerry Douglas, J. Pat O’Malley, Regis Toomey, George Murdock, Frank Kreig, Lincoln Demyan, Chanin Hale, Charles Dierkop, Mikel Angel, Jim Halbroeder, Alan Oppenheimer, Wayne Heffley, Tom Palmer, Carol Wayne, Dick Crockett, Gary Lasdun, Ken Wales, Mark Von Mills, Marion Marshall, Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece, Bill Bennett, Jack Bernardi, Jean Carson, Fleurette Carter, John Daheim, Jack Fife, Helen Funai, Bobby Gilbert, Ann Hughes, Kay Hughes, Robert Isenberg, Bruce Jacobs, Anita Loo, Henry Mancini, Jerry Martin, Walter Maslow, Midori, George Paul, Jimmy Payne, Ed Peck, Tony Regan, Clark Ross, Arthur Tovey, Candy Ward.

Recommended reading - Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, by Paul M. Sammon (2017)

 

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

by Paul M. Sammon (2017).

Revised & Updated Edition.

ISBN-10: 0062699466

ISBN-13: 978-0062699466

Description from back cover:

The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner.

Ridley Scott’s 2007 “Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future Noir includes:

An overview of Blade Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book’s original 1996 publication.

An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007.

A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner.

Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

Recommended reading - Beware the Night

Beware the Night

by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool.

Filmed as Deliver Us from Evil (2014), directed by Scott Derrickson.

Published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 1250059496

ISBN-13: 9781250059499

Description:

DEMONIC POSSESSION. EXORCISM. HAUNTED HOUSES. SATANIC RITUALS.

For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real -- and dangerous -- as midnight patrol...

HELL IS HIS BEAT

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient -- and most dangerous -- foes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark.

In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest; a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus; a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered nineteenth-century bride; the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell; and more. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror. 

Recommended reading - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (novel & comic book adaptation):

Star Trek V: the Final Frontier

by J. M. Dillard.

Filmed as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), directed by William Shatner.

Published by Severn House Publishers Ltd.
Published 1989.

ISBN-10: 0727840215
ISBN-13: 978-0727840219

Description:

On the planet Nimbus III, a harsh world deep in the neutral zone, the three major powers -- Federation, Klingon, and Romulan -- attempt a revolutionary cooperative program, jointly developing the planet as an experiment in peace. But that makes Nimbus III an irresistible target for terrorists, who seize control of the planet, and the Enterprise is sent on a daring mission of rescue. And soon Kirk and his crew find themselves on a much more dangerous and disturbing journey, to the center of the galaxy and the forbidden secrets it holds.

 

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

by Peter David, James W. Fry, Arne Starr.

A DC Movie Special.
Illustrated DC comic book.

Published 1989.
ASIN: B082FQS8QV

On this day in music history - The album Livin' on Love, by Deborah Coleman (2001)

Livin' on Love

by Deborah Coleman

was released on May 22, 2001.

Track list:

Livin’ On Love; You’re With Me; Light Of Day; Memory Lane; Crazy; Bending Like A Willow Tree; Happy When You’re Unhappy; Don’t Talk In My Sleep; Heaven’s Got The Blues; Torn In Two; Deserted Highway.

On this day in music history - Bellini: Norma (2013)

Bellini: Norma

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released May 20, 2013.

 
Track list:

Bellini: Norma: Sinfonia (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: Introduzione - “Ite sul colle, o Druidi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Svanir le voci!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Meco all’altar di Venere” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Me protegge, me difende” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Norma viene” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Sediziose voci, voci di guerra” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Casta Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Fine al rito” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Ah! bello a me ritorna” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Sgombra è la sacra selva, compiuto il rito” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Deh! proteggimi, o Dio!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Eccola! va, mi lascia, ragion non odo” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Va, crudele, al Dio spietato” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Vanne, e li cela entrambi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Adalgisa!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Oh! rimembranza!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Ah! sì, fa core, e abbracciami” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Ma di’... l’amato giovane quale fra noi si noma?”...”Oh non tremare “ (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Oh! di qual sei tu vittima “..”Oh! qual traspare orribile”..”Norma! de’ tuoi rimproveri” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Perfido! - Or basti...Vanne, sì: mi lascia, indegno” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: Scena – Introduzione - “Dormono entrambi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Mi chiami, o Norma!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Deh! con te, con te li prendi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Si, fino all’ore estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 2: “Non parti?” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 2: “Guerrieri! a voi venirne” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 2: “Ah! del Tebro al giogo indegno fremo io pure” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Ei tornerà” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Squilla il bronzo del Dio!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Guerra, guerra!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Né compi il rito, o Norma?” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “In mia man alfin tu sei”..”Già mi pasco ne’ tuoi sguardi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Dammi quel ferro” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Qual cor tradisti, qual cor perdesti” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Norma! deh! Norma, scolpati!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Deh non volerli vittime” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi).

Introvert insight:

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
- Naomi Judd.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

- Pablo Picasso.