Friday, July 11, 2025

On this day in movie history - Contact (1997)


Contact


directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg,

based on the novel by Carl Sagan,

was released in the United States on July 11, 1997.

Music by Alan Silvestri.


Cast:
Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey, David Morse, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt, William Fichtner, Angela Bassett, Jake Busey, Rob Lowe, Geoffrey Blake, Max Martini, Steven Ford, Jay Leno, Larry King, Ann Druyan.

On this day in music history - Music by Ry Cooder, by Ry Cooder (1995)


Music by Ry Cooder


by Ry Cooder

was released on July 11, 1995.

Track list:

Paris, Texas; Theme From Southern Comfort; Theme From Alamo Bay; Across The Borderline; Highway 23; Bomber Bash; Greenhouse; Nice Bike; I Like Your Eyes; Main Theme; See You In Hell, Blind Boy; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Swamp Walk; Angola; Viola Lee Blues; The Long Riders; Archie’s Funeral (Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand); Jesse James; King Of The Street; Sunny’s Tune; No Quiero; Cruising With Rafe; Klan Meeting; I Can’t Walk This Time/The Prestige; East St. Louis; Goose and Lucky; Goyakla Is Coming; Canoes Upstream; Cancion Mixteca; Maria; Bound For Canaan (Sieber and Davis); Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary); Train To Florida; Houston In Two Seconds.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

On this day in movie history - Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)

 

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story


documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau,

based on the novel by Peter Benchley,

released in the United States on July 10, 2025.

Music by Blake Neely.
 
Cast:
Emily Blunt, Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, Steven Soderbergh, James Cameron, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Cameron Crowe, John Williams, Lorraine Gary, Greg Nicotero, Jeffrey Voorhees, Jeffrey Kramer, Ian Shaw, Carl Gottlieb, Jonathan Filley, Joe Alves, Wendy Benchley, Tracy Benchley Turner.

Ann Patchett, on writing:

 
I made a startling discovery.
Time spent writing = output of work.
Amazing.
- Ann Patchett.


Born on this day – Marcel Proust:


Marcel Proust


Writer

July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

Credits:

Books: 

Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays (1994); Correspondance, 1914-1922 (1976); In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower / aka Within a Budding Grove (1919); Jean Santeuil (1954); Letters (1948); Letters to a friend (1949); Letters to His Mother (1973); Letters to the Lady Upstairs / aka Letters to His Neighbor (2017); Love Duet And Other Curious Stories About Music (2013); On Art and Literature: 1896-1919 (1996); On Life, Love and Letters (1989); On Reading (1971); On Reading Ruskin (1987); Pleasures and Days / aka Pleasures and Regrets (1896); Selected Letters: 1880-1903 (1983); Selected Letters: 1918-1921 (2000); Sodom and Gomorrah / aka Cities of the Plain (1921); Swann in Love (1913); Swann's Way / aka The Way by Swann's (1913); The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001); The Fugitive / aka Albertine Gone / The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925); The Guermantes Way (1920); The Mysterious Correspondent (2021); The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 (2022); The Prisoner / aka The Captive (1923); Time Regained / aka The Past Recaptured / Finding Time Again (1927).

Movies and television:

À la recherche du temps perdu (2011); Choses vues (1971); Chroniques de France (1969–1972); Correspondances (1953); Dans le temps (2016); Du côté de chez Proust (2010); Guermantes (2021); Ici et là (2005); Le monde de Marcel Proust (2021); Le temps de l'amour (2009); Les cent livres des hommes (1971); Les intermittences du Coeur (1981); Les Nuits de France Culture (2020); Madame Aurélie (1955); Marcel Proust at Elaine Greffulhe's Wedding (1904); Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life (1993); Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999); Omnibus (1971); Preámbulo a un silencio (1986); Swann in Love (1984); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Captive (2000 / 2014); The Five Senses (1999); U cioci Leonii (2018); W strone (2014); Without Walls (1995).

Born on this day – Slim Summerville:

 


Slim Summerville


Actor

Director

July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946

Credits:

A Bedroom Blunder (1917); A Bedtime Story (1926); A Bird's a Bird (1915); A Dog Catcher's Love (1917); A Dumb Friend (1926); A Free Ride (1925); A Game Old Knight (1915); A New York Girl (1914); A Peaceful Riot (1925); A Rowboat Romance (1914); A Run for His Money (1927); A Schoolhouse Scandal (1919); A Swell Affair (1926); Absent-Minded (1925); Air Mail (1932); All Out (1925); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); All Tied Up (1925); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Among the Mourners (1914); An Incompetent Hero (1914); Andy Takes a Flier (1925); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Arabian Knights (1931); Are Waitresses Safe? (1917); Bachelor Daze (1944); Back to Nature (1925); Bad Sister (1931); Badly Broke (1926); Bless the Ladies (1931); Bride by Mistake (1944); Business Worries (1926); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); Captain January (1936); Case Dismissed (1924); Caught in a Park (1915); Caught in the Act (1915); Caught in the Rain (1914); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Cinders of Love (1916); Cursed by His Beauty (1914); Don't Be a Dummy (1926); Dough and Dynamite (1914); Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915); Easy Money (1924); Easy Work (1924); El Tenorio del harem (1931); Estamos en París (1931); Faint Heart (1925); Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Fatty and the Heiress (1914); Fatty's Magic Pants (1914); Fatty's New Role (1915); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); First to Fight (1931); Five of a Kind (1938); Footballs and Frauds (1919); Free Love (1930); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gentlemen of Nerve (1914); Gold Rush Maisie (1940); Green Grocers (1924); Gussle, the Golfer (1914); Gussle's Day of Rest (1915); Gypsy Joe (1916); Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943); He Loved the Ladies (1914); Hearts and Sparks (1916); Hearts for Rent (1926); Heaven on Earth (1931); Hello, 'Frisco (1924); Henry Goes Arizona (1939); Her Ball and Chain (1924); Her Fame and Shame (1917); Her First Kiss (1919); Her First Mate (1933); Her Man (1930); Her Painted Hero (1915); Her Winning Punch (1915); Here's Luck (1931); Hey! Hey! Cowboy (1927); High and Dry (1922); Highway West (1941); His Bread and Butter (1916); His Busted Trust (1916); His Hidden Purpose (1918); His Naughty Wife (1919); His Precious Life (1917); His Smothered Love (1918); His Talented Wife (1914); Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912); Hold Me Tight (1920); Hold the Line (1922); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hop Along (1927); Horse Play (1933); Hotter Than Haiti (1931); Idle Workers (1921); I'm from Arkansas (1944); In Again, Out Again (1927); In the Air (1926); In the Bag (1932); It Pays to Exercise (1918); Jailhouse Blues (1927); Jesse James (1939); Keep Healthy (1924); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Kid Glove Kisses (1932); King of Jazz (1930); King of the Rodeo (1928); Lasca of the Rio Grande (1931); Laughing Gas (1914); Leading Lizzie Astray (1914); Let's Play (1931); Life Begins at 40 (1935); Little Accident (1930); Love and Bullets (1914); Love Birds (1934); Love Is News (1937); Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933); Lover's Luck (1914); Mabel's Busy Day (1914); Mabel's Latest Prank (1914); Many a Slip (1931); Mary's Little Lobster (1920); Meet the Husband (1927); Meet the Princess (1932); Miners Over 21 (1924); Miss Polly (1941); My Little Brother (1924); Niagara Falls (1941); No One to Guide Him (1915); Off to the Races (1937); Officer, Save My Child (1932); Oh, What a Kick! (1927); One Hysterical Night (1929); One Moment, Please (1921); Only a Farmer's Daughter (1915); Ooh La-La (1930); Opry House Tonight (1926); Out All Night (1933); Painted Ponies (1927); Papa's Mama (1926); Pardon Me (1921); Parisian Gaities (1931); Parlez Vous (1930); Peeking in Peking (1931); Pepper (1936); Politics (1924); Pretty Lady (1920); Puddin' Head (1941); Qué tiempos aquéllos (1951); Racing Youth (1932); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938); Reckless Living (1931); Red Suspenders (1927); Reunion (1936); Riding for Fame (1928); Roaring Lions on the Midnight Express (1918); Roping Her Romeo (1917); Rough Sailing (1923); Rum and Wall Paper (1915); Sad But True (1924); Sailor's Holiday (1929); Saved by Wireless (1915); Sea Soldier's Sweeties (1932); See America Thirst (1930); Sheriff Nell's Comeback (1920); Ship Ahoy! (1924); Sing Me a Song of Texas (1945); Skirts (1921); Soldiers of Misfortune (1914); Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (1914); Strong Boy (1929); Submarine Patrol (1938); Sunshine's Dark Moment (1929); Swing in the Saddle (1944); Switching Sleepers (1926); Taking the Heir (1926); Ten Nights Without a Barroom (1920); That Little Band of Gold (1915); The Anglers (1914); The Artist (1923); The Barnstormers (1922); The Beauty Bunglers (1915); The Beloved Rogue (1927); The Chinese Parrot (1927); The Country Doctor (1936); The Cry Baby (1924); The Cyclist (1923); The Denver Dude (1927); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Diver's Last Kiss (1918); The Eskimo (1922); The Eyes Have It (1932); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Five Fifteen (1923); The Front Page (1931); The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915); The High Spots on Broadway (1914); The Home Breakers (1915); The Honeymoon Quickstep (1927); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Kitchen Lady (1918); The Knockout (1914); The Last Warning (1928); The Midnight Bum (1927); The Pace That Thrills (1929); The Perfect Lie (1926); The Pinhead (1924); The Plumber (1914); The Property Man (1914); The Ranch Romeo (1922); The Riding Master (1923); The Rivals (1923); The Road Back (1937); The Royal Bluff (1931); The Sargie's Playmate (1931); The Shannons of Broadway (1929); The Singer Midget's Scandal (1921); The Snow Cure (1916); The Spoilers (1930); The Texas Streak (1926); The Three Slims (1916); The Unexpected Father (1932); The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942); The Very Bad Man (1924); The Village Cut-Up (1926); The Winning Punch (1916); The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927); Their Big Moment (1934); Their Fatal Bumping (1914); Their Social Splash (1915); These Amazing Shadows (2011); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); Those Athletic Girls (1918); Those College Girls (1915); Those Country Kids (1914); Those Happy Days (1914); Those Love Pangs (1914); Tiddly-Winks (1926); Tiger Rose (1929); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Tobacco Road (1941); Tom Brown of Culver (1932); Too Much Sleep (1926); Training for Husbands (1920); Troopers Three (1930); Tune Up! (1926); Uncle Joe (1941); Under Montana Skies (1930); Unreal News Reel (1923); Unreal News Reel No. 2 (1924); Unreal News Reel No. 3 (1924); Unreal News Reel No. 4 (1924); Up the River (1938); Villa of the Movies (1917); Virtuous Husbands (1919); Wanted a Bride (1926); Way Down East (1935); We! We! Marie! (1930); Western Union (1941); Wet and Weary (1923 / 1924); When Dumbells Ring (1925); White Fang (1936); Who's the Boss (1930); Why Mules Leave Home (1927); Why Wait? (1924); Wild Waves and Women (1919); Wild West Love (1914); William Tell (1924); Winner Take All (1939); Zip, the Dodger (1914).

Born on this day – John Gilbert:

 

John Gilbert


Actor

Writer

Director

July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936