On this day in movie history - Diva (1981)

Diva

directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix,

written by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jean Van Hamme,

based on the novel by Delacorta,

was released in France on March 11, 1981.

Music by Vladimir Cosma.

Cast:

Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer, Gérard Darmon, Chantal Deruaz, Jacques Fabbri, Patrick Floersheim, Thuy An Luu, Jean-Luc Porraz, Laure Duthilleul, Dominique Pinon, Dominique Besnehard, Isabelle Mergault, Anny Romand, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Raymond Aquilon, Eugène Berthier, Gérard Chaillou, Andrée Champeaux, Nathalie Dalyan, Laurence Darpy, Michel Debrane, Etienne Draber, Nane Germon, Gabriel Gobin, Jim Adhi Limas, Louise Malapert, Dimo Mally, Vaneta Mally, Alain Marcel, Marthe Moudiki-Moreau, Robyn Bernard, Yann Roussel, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Louis Vitrac, Tania Zabaloieff, Vladimir Cosma.

On this day in movie history - 9 Rides (2016)

 

9 Rides

directed and written by Matthew A. Cherry,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 11, 2016.

Music by Donald Hayes.

Cast:

Dorian Missick, Omar J. Dorsey, Robinne Lee, Xosha Roquemore, Amin Joseph, Thomas Q. Jones, Skye P. Marshall, Aasha Davis, Tracie Thoms, Andra Fuller, Sujata Day, Nadine Ellis, Frank Califano, Dominique Columbus, Alice Ensor, Malcolm Matthews, Jake McLean, Brittany Richards, Capri Sampson, Kayla Smith, Tiffany Snow.

On this day in television history - Justified (2014)

Justified
Season 5. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Wrong Roads.

Released March 11, 2014.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, A.J. Buckley, Dale Dickey, Joshua Harto, Steve Harris, Wood Harris, Deidrie Henry, Damon Herriman, Mickey Jones, John Kapelos, Jesse Luken, Jacob Lofland, Eric Roberts, Alicia Witt, Muse Watson, Justin Welborn, Alex S. Alexander, Jolene Andersen, Jonathan Kowalsky, James Logan, Angie Simms, Reggie Watkins, Russell Bertolino, Leonard Chang, Anthony Ledesma, David Meunier, Lisa Pevc.

On this day in music history - Dreamflight, Bringers of the Dawn, Diamond Soul, The Schubert Album, Atmospheres, The Long Goodbye

Dreamflight by Herb Ernst (1986)

Dreamflight II by Herb Ernst (1987)

Dreamflight III by Herb Ernst (1990)

Bringers of the Dawn by Herb Ernst (1996)

Diamond Soul by Herb Ernst (2012)

The Schubert Album by Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach (1997)

Atmospheres by Rudy Adrian (2014)

The Long Goodbye by Laura Sullivan (2021)

Dreamflight

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1986.

Track list: Awakening Stars; Candlelighting; Sea Quest; Liquid Indigo; Celestial Descent; Celestial Ascent; Voyage into Silence; (a) The Voyager; (b) The Silence; (c) The Return.

Dreamflight II

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1987.

Track list: Gaia's Song; Galaxy Delight; The Crystal Forest; Ancient Castles, Secret Mists; The Light of Forever; Midnight Ocean Reflections; Silver Aura; The Healing; Shannons Song.

Dreamflight III

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1990.

Track list: The Enchanted Dance; Crystal Echos; Prima Materia; Song of the Rose; Accension; The Freedom of Forgiveness; Shimmering Wings; The Monastery; Song of the Soul.

Bringers of the Dawn

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 1996.

Track list: Stardust and Moonlight; Moonchild; Joey's Angel; Song of the Inner Child; Hilde Hope; Mooncradle in Dreamland; Unicorn Dreamride; Gentle Moment; Hilde Hope Reprise; Angel's Birth; Brahm's Lullaby.

Diamond Soul

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 11, 2012.

Track list: Celestial Vespers; Forever Rapture; Angel Passion, Angel Prayer; Into the Sacred; Heaven's Child; Memories of Innocence; Redemption; Your Golden Soul; The Gift of Grace; Merciful Power.

The Schubert Album

by Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach,

released March 11, 1997.

Track list: Heidenroslein, D257; Die Forelle, D550; An Die Nachtigall, D 497; Im Fruhling, D882; Die Junge Nonne, D 828; Nacht Und Traume, D827; Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen, D774; Ave Maria, D839; Fruhlingsglaube, D686; Gretchen Am Spinnrade, D118; Du Bist Die Ruh', D776; Der Tod Und Das Madchen, D531; Viola, D786; Die Manner Sind Mechant!, D866.

Atmospheres

Album by Rudy Adrian,

released March 11, 2014.

Track list: Apple Tree Bay; Atmospheres; Willow Bank; Blue Horizon; Through a Cave into Another World; Amber Skies; Beyond the Silver River; The Temple on an Island; Dreams of SUBAntarctica.

The Long Goodbye

Instrumental track by Laura Sullivan,

released March 11, 2021.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Recommended reading - The Instant Enemy

The Instant Enemy

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ASIN: B07R5PYF7Q

Published by Alfred A. Knopf.

First published 1968.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

 

Description:

“Moves fast and is full of surprises. . . . The best work Macdonald has done in years.” – The New York Times.

“A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were.” – Eudora Welty.

“Archer has seldom been in better form, and neither has his estimable creator.” – The New Yorker.

“Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trail of women who were beaten to death, a murdered cop, and a dead hobo who is the key to a 15-year-old family secret that won't die. "(The) American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald". – New York Times Book Review.

Lew Archer is hired by Keith Sebastian, a Los Angeles business executive, to find his daughter Sandy, a high-school senior who has run off with a homeless boy. Sebastian and his wife, living on the on the edge of affluent bankruptcy, seem unable to communicate with their daughter. Archer finds the runaways easily enough, but before he can return Sandy to her parents, she has participated in a violent crime. Archer’s efforts to save the girl from the consequences of her actions, and to understand those actions, involve him in a savage plot twisting deep into the past. At least one old murder and some new ones confound him and the police. Archer himself is very nearly killed by an ex-cop who wants to keep the case closed, but he finally manages to open it and let some daylight in. The Instant Enemy is Lew Archer at his toughest, and Ross Macdonald at his most trenchant in his observations of California society. 

Recommended reading - Jacob's Ladder, by Bruce Joel Rubin (2000)

Jacob's Ladder

by Bruce Joel Rubin

Published 2000.
Published by Applause Books.
 
ISBN-10: 155783086X
ISBN-13: 978-1557830869
 
Back cover description:
 
From the director of Fatal Attraction…
and the writer of Ghost…

Jacob’s Ladder.

Written by Bruce Joel Rubin.
An Adrian Lyne Film.
From Carolco Picture.
Produced by Alan Marshall.
Directed by Adrian Lyne.
With over 100 photographs from the film.

“… the screenplay moves from the nightmarish to the visionary … page for page, it is one of the very few screenplays I’ve read with the power to consistently raise hackles in broad daylight … Read it. It’s extraordinary.” – American Film.

“… one of the most original and powerful screenplays to be seen in Hollywood in years … One feels in the hands of a benevolent and sophisticated teller.” – Cinefantastique.

“… a humanistic thriller that hits like a thunderbolt.” – Fangoria.

The complete final shooting script in professional screenwriter’s format together with an annotated appendix of deleted scenes.

Jacob’s Chronicle, Bruce Joel Rubin’s book-length account of Jacob’s odyssey to the screen.

Applause screenplay series.