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 the Star Trek universe - Star Trek (1969), Voyager (2001), Discovery (2019)

 

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Lights of Zetar.

Released January 31, 1969.

Directed by Herb Kenwith.

Written by Jeremy Tarcher, Shari Lewis, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Jan Shutan, John Winston, Libby Erwin, Barbara Babcock, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Repentance.

Released January 31, 2001.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert Doherty, Michael/Mike Sussman, Michael Taylor, Phyllis Strong.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Jeff Kober, Tim DeZarn, F.J. Rio, Greg Poland, Robert Axelrod, Michael Bailous, Tarik Ergin, Peter Scott Harmyk, Clay Hodges, Pat Jankiewicz, Joyce Lasley, Irving E. Lewis, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Pablo Soriano.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Point of Light.

Released January 31, 2019.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Andrew Colville, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, Mia Kirshner, Alan Van Sprang, Mary Chieffo, Kenneth Mitchell, Bahia Watson, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julianne Grossman, Xavier Sotelo, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Pay Chen, Damon Runyan, Avaah Blackwell, Donovan Brown, Nicole Dickinson, Jonathan Kim, Kyana Teresa.

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:

Tibet by Mark Isham (1989)
The Emerald Way by 2002 (2006)
LUDOVICO EINAUDI: STANZE original piano version by Olivia Belli (2017)
The Summer Portraits by Ludovico Einaudi and Maria Callas (2025)
 

Tibet

Album by Mark Isham,

released January 31, 1989.

Track list: Tibet, Part I; Tibet, Part II; Tibet, Part III; Tibet, Part IV; Tibet, Part V.

The Emerald Way

Album by 2002,

released 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.

LUDOVICO EINAUDI: STANZE original piano version

Album by Olivia Belli,

released January 31, 2017.

Track list:

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

The Summer Portraits

Album by Ludovico Einaudi and Maria Callas,

released January 31, 2025.

Track list:

Rose Bay; Punta Bianca; Sequence; Pathos; To Be Sun; Jay; In Memory Of A Dream; In Limine; Summer Song; Oil On Wood; Episode One; Maria Callas; Santiago.

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.