On this day in movie history - Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

Brotherhood of the Wolf

directed by Christophe Gans,

written by Christophe Gans and Stéphane Cabel,

was released in France on January 31, 2001.

Inspired by the true case of The Beast of Gévaudan 

that occurred in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767.

Narrated by Jacques Perrin.

Music by Joseph LoDuca.

Cast:

Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Jérémie Renier, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jacques Perrin, Christian Marc, Karin Kriström, Philippe Nahon, Virginie Darmon, Hans Meyer, Jean-Paul Farré, Pierre Lavit, Eric Prat, Bernard Farcy, Edith Scob, Michel Puterflam, Jean Yanne, Jean-Loup Wolff, Jean-François Stévenin, Nicolas Vaude, Max Delor, Christian Adam, Jean-Pierre Jackson, Nicky Naudé, Daniel Herroin, Gaëlle Cohen, Virginie Arnaud, Charles Maquignon, Frankie Pain, Isabelle Le Nouvel, Albane Fioretti, Clarice Plasteig dit Caffou, Delphine Hivernet, Juliette Lamboley, Gaspard Ulliel, Pierre Castagne, Stéphane Pioffet, Eric Laffitte, Johan Leysen, Eric Delcourt, André Penvern, Bernard Fresson, Christelle Droy, Andres Fuentes, Nadine Marcovici, Jean-Claude Braquet, David Bogino, Emanuel Booz, François Hadji-Lazaro, Pascal Laugier, Olivier Colat-Parros, Guillaume Moure.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

 

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: The Shakedown.

Released January 31, 1958.

Directed by David Rich.

Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Katharine Bard, Dean Harens, June Dayton, Duncan McLeod, H.M. Wynant, Joe Di Reda, Ted Hecht.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012)

 

Justified
Season 3. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Harlan Roulette.

Released January 31, 2012.

Directed by Jon Avnet.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley and Jon Worley.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Raymond J. Barry, Jeremy Davies, Jere Burns, Damon Herriman, Eric Ladin, James Le Gros, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Todd Stashwick, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mike Foy, Demetrius Grosse, Cleavon McClendon, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough, Tate Ammons, Noel Arthur, Jonathan Kowalsky, Frederick Lawrence, Jesse Luken, Doug Sinclair, Patrick Robert Smith, Kevin Michael Walsh, Dwight V Coleman.

On this day in music history - The album The Emerald Way, by 2002 (2006)

 

The Emerald Way

by 2002

was released on January 31, 2006.

Track list:

Inner Light; Another Answer Came; Remember Now; The Emerald Way; Overheard in a Dream; Soul Doors; Unopened Flower; Timeless; Traveler Winds; Secret Shores.

On this day in music history - The album LUDOVICO EINAUDI: STANZE original piano version, by Olivia Belli (2017)

 

LUDOVICO EINAUDI: STANZE original piano version

by Olivia Belli

was released on January 31, 2017.

Track list:

Notte I; Calore; Moto; Vega; Onda; Contatti; Respiro; Lento; Cadenza; Orbite; Moto perpetuo; Cerchio; Ritorno; Notte II.

George R. R. Martin, on books:

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone,

if it is to keep its edge.

- George R. R. Martin.

Recommended reading - The Big Knockover and Other Stories

The Big Knockover and Other Stories

by Dashiell Hammett.

 

Published by Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Published 1981.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0140029419

ISBN-13: 978-0140029413

Description:

Nine short stories. Includes the unfinished novel, Tulip, and a memoir by Lillian Hellman. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.