On this day in movie history – Violet (2021)

Violet

directed and written by Justine Bateman,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 18, 2021.

Music by Vum.

Cast:

Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, Justin Theroux, Dennis Boutsikaris, Erica Ash, Zachary Gordon, Todd Stashwick, Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Jacobson, Jim O'Heir, Simon Quarterman, Laura San Giacomo, Rob Benedict, Keith Powers, Cassandra Cardenes, Al Madrigal, Rain Phoenix, Steve Agee, Anne Ramsay, Colleen Camp, Jason Dohring, Jordan Belfi, Federico Dordei, James C. Victor, Matt Ingebretson, Liliana Mijangos, Brooklynn MacKinzie, Jakari Fraser, Mason Wells, Kathleen Wilhoite, Annica Liljeblad, Joe D'Angerio, W. Tré Davis, Erin Cantelo, Jack Nicholls, Antonio Raul Corbo, Nicole Gabriella Scipione. 

Napoleon Hill, on imagination and writing:

First comes thought;
then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;
then transformation of those plans into reality.
The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill.

On this day in music history - Signature Synchronicity (2016)

Signature Synchronicity

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released March 18, 2016.

 
Track list:

Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible; Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Grace (Chill Version); Signature; From the Mist; Little Star.

Born on this day – Raymond Z. Gallun:

 

Raymond Z. Gallun

Writer

March 22, 1911 – April 2, 1994

Credits:

A Step Farther Out (1950); Apollo at Go (1963); Avalanche (1935); Big Pill (1952); Bioblast (1985); Child of the Stars (1936); Editorial (1984); Old Faithful (1934); Passport to Jupiter (1951); People Minus X (1957); Seeds of the Dusk (1938); Skyclimber (1981); Starclimber (1991); The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun (1978); The Crystal Ray (1929); The Eden Cycle (1974); The Machine That Thought (1939); The Planet Strappers (1961); The Revolt of the Starmen (1932); The Son of Old Faithful (1935); The Space Dwellers (1929).

Born on this day – W. S. Van Dyke:

W. S. Van Dyke

Director

Writer

March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943

Credits:

According to Hoyle (1922); After the Thin Man (1936); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Barriers Burned Away (1925); Bitter Sweet (1940); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Cairo (1942); California (1927); Daredevil Jack (1920); Destroying Angel (1923); Double Adventure (1921); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eskimo (1933); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Eyes of the Totem (1927); Fate's Frame-Up (1919); Foreign Devils (1927); Forget Me Not (1922); Forsaking All Others (1934); Gift o' Gab (1917); Gold Heels (1924); Guilty Hands (1931); Half-a-Dollar Bill (1924); Hearts and Spurs (1925); Hide-Out (1934); His Brother's Wife (1936); I Live My Life (1935); I Love You Again (1940); I Married an Angel (1942); I Take This Woman (1940); Intolerance / aka Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916); It's a Wonderful World (1939); Journey for Margaret (1942); Laughing Boy (1934); Love on the Run (1936); Loving Lies (1924); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Men of the Desert (1917); Naughty Marietta (1935); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); New Moon (1940); Night Court (1932); Northwest Passage (1940); A Daughter of the City (1915); Oliver Twist (1916); On Trial (1917); Open Places (1917); Orphan Joyce (1916); Penthouse (1933); Personal Property (1937); Rage in Heaven (1941); Ranger of the Big Pines (1925); Riders of the Dark (1928); Rosalie (1937); Rose-Marie (1936); Ruth of the Range (1923); Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917); San Francisco (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 15 (1920); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Spoilers of the West (1927); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Sweethearts (1938); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); The Adventurer (1927); The Avenging Arrow (1921); The Battling Fool (1924); The Beautiful Sinner (1924); The Boss of Camp Four (1922); The Cuban Love Song (1931); The Desert's Price (1925); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Gentle Cyclone (1926); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Heart of the Yukon (1927); The Lady of the Dugout (1918); The Land of Long Shadows (1917); The Lash (1916); The Little Girl Next Door (1923); The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row (1916); The Milky Way (1922); The Miracle Makers (1923); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Pagan (1929); The Primitive Strain (1916); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Range Boss (1917); The Thin Man (1934); The Timber Wolf (1925); The Trail Rider (1925); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Trader Horn (1931); Under the Black Eagle (1928); Unprotected (1916); War Paint (1926); White Eagle (1922); White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); Winner Take All (1924); Winners of the Wilderness (1927); Wyoming (1928).

Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader

 

Film Noir Reader

Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
 
Published 1996.
Published by Limelight.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0879101970
ISBN-13: 978-0879101978
 
Description:
 

This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.

Born on this day – Florence Delay:

Florence Delay

Writer

Actress

March 19, 1941 – July 1, 2025

Credits:

Novels, essays, plays:

Act of the Passion (1983); Beauténébreux (1999); Catalina, Inquest (1994); Dit Nerval (1999); Etxemendi (1990); Graal théâtre (1977–1981); It seems to me (1987); La sortie au jour (1987); Le divin Narcissus 1987); Les Moitiés (1991); L'Hexaméron (1990); Love Race During Mourning (1986); Marco Polo (1985); Michée, Aggée, Zechariah, Malachie, (2001); Midnight on the Games (1973); My Spain (2008); Red Carnation on the Sand (1994); Red score (1988); Rich and Light (1983); Six Galician Poems (1998); Small Prose Forms after Edison (1987); Suzanne's Weeks (1991); The Brief Seduction (1997); The Celestine (1989); The Decadence of Illiteracy (1988); The Eclypse of the Ball (1987); The End of Ordinary Times (1996); The Failure of the Party (1980); The Foghorn Ouch (1975); The Great Theatre of the World followed by Trial in the Separation of the Soul and the Body (2004); The Man from Luxembourg (1998); The Sound Solitude of the Bullfighter (1989).

Movies & television:

Apostrophes (1978–1989); Collections privées / Segment: Kusa-Meikyu (1979); Deep Water (1981); Droit d'auteurs (1997–2001); Georges Bernanos, Histoire d'un homme libre (2019); La memoria fértil (1986); L'ambassade (1973); L'amitié (2022); Le bateau livre (2008); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le jouet criminel (1969); Les ailes de la colombe (1981); Les deux mémoires (1974); Les visages de Jeanne (2004); L'homme en question (1978); Los años Arruza (1996); Mort de Raymond Roussel (1975); Ouvrez les guillemets (1973); Portraits d'écrivains (1986); Réception de Simone Veil à l'Académie Française (2010); Sans Soleil (1983); See Here My Love (1978); The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962); Un siècle d'écrivains (2000); Vol de nuit (2004).