Sunday, November 30, 2025

On this day in movie history - Schindler’s List (1993)


Schindler’s List


directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Steven Zaillian,

based on the book Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally,

was released in the United States on November 30, 1993.

Music by John Williams.


Cast:
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Małgorzata Gebel, Mark Ivanir, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Jerzy Nowak, Norbert Weisser, Albert Misak, Michael Gordon, Aldona Grochal, Uri Avrahami, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna Mucha, Adi Nitzan, Jacek Wójcicki, Beata Paluch, Piotr Polk, Bettina Kupfer, Grzegorz Kwas, Kamil Krawiec, Henryk Bista, Ezra Dagan, Rami Heuberger, Elina Löwensohn, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Wojciech Klata, Paweł Deląg, Hans-Jörg Assmann, August Schmölzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Daniel Del Ponte, Adam Siemion, Jochen Nickel, Ludger Pistor, Oliwia Dąbrowska.

On this day in movie history - Killing Them Softly (2012)

Killing Them Softly

directed and written by Andrew Dominik,

based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins,

was released in the United States on November 30, 2012.

Music by Marc Streitenfeld.


Cast:
Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar, Wade Allen, Christopher Berry, Kenneth Brown Jr., Mustafa Harris, Dared Wright, John McConnell, Bryan Billingsley, Shannon Brewer, Roger Pfeiffer, Joe Chrest.

On this day in music history – The album Beautiful Quiet, by Amy Lauren (2010)

 

Beautiful Quiet


by Amy Lauren

was released on November 30, 2010.

Track list:

Enchanted Dreams; Starfall; Around the Moon; Circle of Steps; The Lost Lullaby; Precious Journey; Sapphire Song; There Is a Place; Night Again; Softly, Silently; Beautiful Quiet; Evening’s Grace; Sweetest Blessing; Keep This Prayer; Slumber Dance.

On this day in music history - The album Another Place and Time, by Heidi Breyer (2010)


Another Place and Time


by Heidi Breyer

was released on November 30, 2010.

Track list:

All Souls Lullaby; On His Wings; Conversation; American Gothic; After the Last Rain; Another Place and Time; Winter Light; In A Region of Clouds – Piano; Off Season; And Winter Came; Nobody’s Gold; So It Was; Chaconne For Our World; Awakening.


On this day in music history - The album Heavy as a Feather, by Kathryn Kaye (2011)


Heavy as a Feather


by Kathryn Kaye

was released on November 30, 2011.

Track list:

Mountain Laurel; Meadow Morning; An Empty Street in Prague; Wind in the Tall Autumn Grass; So Much Sky; Earth; Summer Afternoon; How Deep, How Simple; Dusk at Rockhouse Creek; Heavy As a Feather; One Last Quiet Breath.

On this day in music history - Imaginaerum (2011)


Imaginaerum


Album by Nightwish,

released November 30, 2011.

Track list:
Taikatalvi; Storytime; Ghost River; Slow, Love, Slow; I Want My Tears Back; Scaretale; Arabesque; Turn Loose the Mermaids; Rest Calm; The Crow, the Owl and the Dove; Last Ride of the Day; Song of Myself I. "From a Dusty Bookshelf" II. "All That Great Heart Lying Still" III. "Piano Black" IV. "Love"; Imaginaerum.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.