Date Movies

November 15:

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1968
November 15 – 500,000 people march in Washington, D.C. for peace, which becomes the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history. In attendance: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair

March 1: Walk The Line

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March 1, 1968 – Johnny Cash and June Carter got married in Franklin, Kentucky.

January 13: Walk The Line

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January 13 1968 – Johnny Cash performs his famous concert at Folsom State Prison in California.

December 31: Forrest Gump

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December 31, 1971

Forrest and Lieutenant Dan's New Year's Eve celebration proves even more depressing than their Christmas. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that any non-sporting celebration that involves television is depressing enough, even without dumb party hats and sour encounters with hookers.

December 25: Forrest Gump

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December 25, 1971

Forrest and Lieutenant Dan spend one of the most depressing Christmases ever, with Bob Hope neglected on the tv.

Well, almost. Seems like they couldn't actually have seen the broadcast for another month or so. "The most memorable Bob Hope Christmas specials were, without a doubt, his 1970 and 1971 episodes. Filmed in front of military audiences at the height of the Vietnam War, these specials actually aired in January –after Hope was back in the United States— and were seen by more than sixty percent of television-viewing households in America. Like his other Christmas specials, the Vietnam shows were all about celebrating the traditional joy, peace and good cheer of the season. His use of humor, beautiful women and talented performers were a welcome respite from the horrors of the war itself." pressemeldungen.at

December 24: The Apartment

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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... nothin'... no action... dullsville!

December 21: Adaptation

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The prosecutor then rose and read the state's charges - that on December 21, 1994, Laroche and his three Seminole assistants had illegally removed more than two hundred rare orchid and bromeliad plants from the Fakahatchee and were apprehended leaving the swamp in possession of four cotton pillowcases full of flowers."
The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orleans

December 20: Zodiac

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First Zodiac letter (received August 1 1969) refers to December 20 1968 murder

Later article on 1968 Zodiac murder

Graysmith visits Leigh Allen in a Vallejo hardware store

(though the wall calendar is for February 1984, the encounter took place December 20, 1983)

December 19: Miracle At St. Anna

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December 18: Zodiac

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December 16: Man On Fire

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December 15: State & Main

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December 10: Zodiac

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December 8: Forrest Gump

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December 8, 1980

A few years after appearing on the Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon, "that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody shot him."

December 7: State & Main

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December 6: The Lovely Bones

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"I was 14 years old when I was murdered. On December sixth, 1973."

December 6: The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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The Wind That Shakes The Barley

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London by representatives of the British government and envoys of the Irish Republic on December 6, 1921.

December 2: Casablanca

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Five days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Pearl Harbour attack began on December 7 at 7:48 AM Honolulu time, which would have been 6:48 PM Casablanca time the same day. As long as Rick signed the cheque after 11 AM December 2 in Casablanca, it would have also been December 2 in Hawaii.

November 30: A Single Man

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Friday November 30, 1962

shown on a bare screen at the end of the opening title sequence

the film includes JFK public announcements on radio or tv

concerning the Cuban missile crisis

curiously, the missile crisis concluded by October 28

perhaps the Kennedy speeches are in flashbacks?

November 29: Zodiac

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November 25: North By Northwest

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The date on the newspaper shown being read at the United States Intelligence Agency is shown as Tuesday November 25, 1958.

November 23: Across The Universe

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November 23, 1967 – Thanksgiving

Jude: We don't have it in England. Is it a big deal?
Max: It's a heartwarming American tradition.
Lucy: It celebrates the time when the indians shared their food with the early settlers.

And how did we repay them? We slaughtered them in thousands and shipped them off to the shittiest bits of real estate.

November 22: Forrest Gump

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November 22, 1963

"Sometime later, for no particular reason, somebody shot that nice young President when he was ridin' in his car. And a few years after that somebody shot his little brother, too, only he was in a hotel kitchen."

November 18: Zodiac

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November 17: Forrest Gump

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No telling what day it is when Forrest sits on the bus stop bench and tells his story, but that particular People magazine is dated November 17, 1980.

November 15: Godfather III

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FINANCIAL TIMES

Wednesday November 15, 1979

"Building An Empire: Corleone Proposal for New Immobiliare"

also: "Car Bomb Kills British Finance Minister at H..."

00:43:08

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Wednesday November 15, 1979

"Immobiliare Takeover Appears Likely: Stock Soars"

00:43:23

November 11: Be Kind, Rewind

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"Listen kids, I appreciate your creativity. But let's be realistic for a second. We will never hit that number, and the building will be gone."

Be Kind, Rewind
1:02:49

November 11: Me & Orson Welles

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"Caesar" opened at The Mercury Theatre on November 11, 1937

"The death of Caesar as they will start doing it Thursday at the
newly christened Mercury Theatre, with Orson Welles, Martin Gabel,
George Coulouris, Joseph Holland herewith shown grim or recumbent."
The New York Times

Greta's response letter from The New Yorker

November 10: Me & Orson Welles

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"Who is it here so base that would be a bondsman?"

"We wait for Orson."

November 10: Me & Orson Welles

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John Houseman: Orson, we positively have to commit to an opening date.

Orson Welles: Thursday. We let Tallulah open on Wednesday in her three million dollar Hindenburg of Antony and Cleopatra, then we open Thursday: a lean, brutal Caesar.

The New Yorker, Theatre listings

"Shakespeare Not Amused"
Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

“...incompetently spoken, badly edited, this Anthony and Cleopatra" – Anthony with an “h,” Christ, Atkinson can’t even get the name of the play right – "Anthony And Cleopatra was a considerable trial of an audience’s patience and goodwill...”

The New Yorker, November 20, 1937

November 9: Me & Orson Welles

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"Lloyd, the Cinna the poet scene's out. It never worked anyway. I'm making it a blackout and a musical interlude."

*

"Norman Lloyd’s career in entertainment has spanned more than seven decades. The scene of his murder (as Cinna the Poet) in Julius Caesar was the production’s coup de theatre, producing the play’s most chilling moment. He became a favourite of Alfred Hitchcock’s, appearing in Saboteur and Spellbound and being closely involved in the production of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. As a TV performer, he is probably best remembered as Dr Auschlander in 132 episodes of the hospital drama St Elsewhere. His films include Dead Poets Society and, most recently, In Her Shoes." zefron.com

November 8: Me & Orson Welles

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English class

"Well Junior, it's Monday and we haven't had the Bad Luck Thing yet. I'm a little worried."

November 8: Me & Orson Welles

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“Did you see these dinosaurs on the cover of Time? Look at this. The son-of-a-bitch Lunts. . . ."

Time Magazine, November 8, 1937

"Let me tell you something. Before this year is over, I – we – will be on the cover of Time. This stage is where theatrical history is being written.”

Time Magazine, May 9, 1938

November 7: Me & Orson Welles

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Radio: After a horrific three months, China’s valiant defence of Shanghai seems on the brink of total collapse. All day yesterday, Japanese tanks rolled up and down the streets of Shanghai, killing innocent--”

(Richard turns off radio.)

Sonja: Sometimes it seems to me as if the whole world is falling apart.

The scene takes place in the office of the Mercury Theatre on Monday, November 8.

On November 5, the Japanese made amphibious landings at Jinshanwei to surround the Chinese troops still fighting in the Shanghai warzone. Chiang was still waiting for the Conference to produce a favorable response and ordered the troops to continue fighting, even though the worn-out troops were in danger of encirclement from the Jinshanwei landings. It was not until three days later on November 8 that the Chinese central command ordered the troops to retire from the entire Shanghai front to protect Nanjing. This three day delay was enough to cause a breakdown in Chinese command as the units were devastated by continued fighting, and this directly caused the failure to coordinate the defense around the Chinese Hindenburg Lines guarding Nanjing. (Wikipedia)

November 6: Me And Orson Welles

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“Your mother is very unhappy with you.”
“For what?”
“For coming in after midnight, that’s what.”
“Jeez. Small mindedness around here. I’m suffocating.”

November 5: Me & Orson Welles

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The story begins...

November 3: "21"

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Fake I.D. so the lad from MIT can cheat the casinos in Vegas

Curiously enough - but completely coincidentally - but still fascinating, for a numbers geek, in a movie about numbers geeks - the time code for the screen capture above is 42:42. Twice "21", two times.

November 1: The Apartment

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On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh... Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861.

October 30: Zodiac

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October 27: Zodiac

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October 26: Married Life

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"October twenty-sixth. Harry Allen is as sane and as cool as you and I."

October 23: Forrest Gump

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October 23, 1971
"Imagine" reaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart

DICK CAVETT: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?

FORREST GUMP: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

JOHN LENNON: No possessions?

GUMP: And in China, they never go to church.

LENNON: No religion, too?

CAVETT: Oh. Hard to imagine.

LENNON: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

FORREST: Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody shot him.

October 22: Zodiac

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October 22: Forrest Gump

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October 22, 1967

The morning after the Lincoln Monument rally, Washington DC

October 21: Howl

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Jack Kerouac

October 21, 1969

October 21: Forrest Gump

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Oct 21 1967: 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to "Confront the War Makers."

The biggest rally was held at the Lincoln Monument on the D.C. Mall. During the afternoon, people lined the reflecting pool and listened to speeches by Dave Dellinger and Dr. Benjamin Spock...

After the speeches, about 50,000 people set off to exorcise the Pentagon. The brainchild of Abbie Hoffman...

The plan was for people to sing and chant until it levitated and turned orange, driving out the evil spirits and ending the war in Viet Nam.

By the way, it was a year later that Abbie Hoffman was arrested in Washington DC for wearing a shirt that resembled the design of an American flag. "I wore the shirt because I was going before the un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives, and I don’t particularly consider that committee American, and I don’t consider that House of Representatives particularly representative. And I wore the shirt to show that we were in the tradition of the founding fathers of this country.”

Who knows, maybe he wore one in 1967 too. Or maybe it's a bit of poetic license on the part of the filmmakers. If you want to dig into all this yourself, one place to look would be Jo Freeman's "Levitate The Pentagon" page, from which I plagiarized a bunch of the information in this post.

October 21: The Reader

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“My name is Hannah Schmitz."

"Thank you. You were born on October 21st, 1922?"

"Yes.”

52:11 / Ch 12 1:40

October 20: Slumdog Millionaire

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20 /10 / 2005
Date on cheque

October 15: Zodiac

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October 15, 1970

October 15: "21"

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Fake I.D. so the lad from MIT can cheat the casinos in Vegas

October 14: Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures

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October 13: Zodiac

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October 11: Zodiac

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October 9: District 9

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October 8: Me & Orson Welles

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October 7: Married Life

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"On Friday afternoon the seventh of October,

I took the rest of the day off and drove north to the Allen cabin."

October 6: Singin' In The Rain

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You can stop rolling at once. Tell them to go home. We’re shutting down for a few weeks.

What’s the matter, R.F.?

The Jazz Singer, that’s what’s the matter! The Jazz Singer. It’s a sensation. The public are screaming for more.

More what?

Talking pictures! Talking pictures.

It’s just a freak.

Yeah, what a freak. We should have such a freak at this studio. I told you talking pictures were a menace but no one would listen to me. Don, we’re going to put our best feet forward. We’re going to make The Dueling Cavalier into a talking picture. Every picture is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theatres are putting in sound equipment. We don’t want to be left out of it.

The Jazz Singer premiered at Warner Bros flagship theater in New York City on October 6, 1927 – the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday around which much of the movie's plot revolves.

October 6: Across The Universe

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OBITUARIES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967

October 4: Howl

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September 27: Zodiac

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September 26: Zodiac

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September 22: Forrest Gump

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September 22, 1975

Forrest gets the news that his mother is sick as President Ford's second assassination attempt is broadcast on television.

September 22: Network

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"This story is about Howard Beale, the acclaimed news anchorman on UBS T.V. In this time, however, he was a mandarin of television with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share. In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a 22 share. The following year, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower with an 8 rating and a 12 share. He became morose and isolated, started to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks. The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher, who was the president of the news division at UBS. The two old friends got properly pissed."

September 21: Forrest Gump

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September 21, 1975

Letter from Apple Computers

FORREST: He did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more.

September 19: Forrest Gump

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September 19, 1979

FORREST: I had run for three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours. "I'm pretty tired. Think I'll go home now."

(Forrest started running July 5, 1976)

September 17: Hairspray

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September 15: The Bang Bang Club

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motion picture re-enactment

Inhlazane, Soweto, 15th September, 1990. An ANC supporter hacks at a burning Lindsaye Tshabalala as a young boy flees. This was one of a series of photographs that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News in 1990. Photo by Greg Marinovich.

original photograph

September 14: Zodiac

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Police search the trailer of Arthur Leigh Allen

September 11: The Big Lebowski

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In the opening narrative sequence, the (main character) is at a Ralphs supermarket purchasing a carton of Half & Half creamer, which he pays for by check. A check written out in the amount of $0.69, and dated Sept 11th, 1991. In the background there is a television playing George Bush Sr.'s address to Congress about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and his famous quote of, "This aggression will not stand."
(Now, I don't know if 9/11 was the actual date of this address (in fact, I'm sure it most likely occured a year earlier, since by Sept. 91 we had already defeated Iraq and liberated Kuwait), but wow... what an eerie date for the Coen's to pick, and an eerie soundbite to play with our knowledge of what happens 10 years later. ...)
Baal_T'shuvah

September 10: Breach

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FBI evidence tape

September 9: Forrest Gump

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September 9, 1974

The morning after Hurricane Carmen hits Louisiana shore

"Only one fishing boat actually survived the storm..."

September 8: Forrest Gump

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September 8, 1974

Hurricane Carmen hits Louisiana shore

FORREST: No shrimp.

DAN: Where the hell's this God of yours?

FORREST: It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, cause right then, God showed up.

September 8: Forrest Gump

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September 8, 1971

Forrest, fresh from his China trip with the All-American Ping Pong Team, is a guest on the Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon, recorded September 8, broadcast on ABC September 12 and 19.

CAVETT: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
GUMP: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
LENNON: No possessions?
GUMP: And in China, they never go to church.
LENNON: No religion, too?
CAVETT: Oh. Hard to imagine.
LENNON: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

FORREST: Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody shot him.

September 7: Zodiac

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September 5: Married Life

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"It all began on the fifth of September, 1949,

when Harry asked me to lunch at the cloud room,

saying he had something urgent he wished to tell me."

September 3: Zodiac

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September 3: Married Life / Pandora & The Flying Dutchman

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"When are you and Steven getting married?"

"September third is the date we've set."

A date within a movie within a movie. When Richard Langley goes to the cinema (the Hollywood Theatre in Vancouver, as a matter of fact) in "Married Life," he's watching "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," and we hear the two lines of dialogue above. Though the scene in "Married Life" supposedly takes place in fall, 1949, "Pandora" wasn't in fact released until 1951.

September 1: Hairspray

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August 25: Me & Orson Welles

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August 17: Howl

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August 17

August 16: Zodiac

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August 13: District 9

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August 13: Zodiac

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August 12: Breach

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Kate Burroughs: "Take a look at August 12, 1993."

August 12 | True Grit

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August 11: District 9

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August 9: District 9

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August 9: Zodiac

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Paul Avery sees TV interview with Robert Graysmith

August 8: Forrest Gump

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August 8, 1974

"Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

August 7: Zodiac

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"Catherine Allen states that Leigh cleaned out his trailer on Friday after work and moved into Santa Rosa on Saturday August 7th 1971."

August 7: Man On Wire

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MAN ON WIRE

"On August 7, 1974, a Frenchman named Philippe Petit, having smuggled two tons of equipment to the top of the towers of the World Trade Center, strung a wire between them, and walked back and forth eight times." Roger Ebert

August 5: Zodiac

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August 5, 1969: Second Zodiac letter

August 4: Zodiac

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"You interviewed him at the refinery on August 4th."

August 3: The Reader

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1:27:56 8/3/77
Ch 19 4:04

August 2: Zodiac

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The first Zodiac cipher is solved

August 1: Zodiac

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August 1, 1969: First Zodiac cipher published in San Francisco Chronicle

August 1: August the First

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"It is the morning of Tunde's graduation party and things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde's celebration. As the day turns to night, old wounds are re-opened and bad habits are revived. Layer by layer, deception and half-truths are peeled away as secrets are uncovered in what will be become the most unforgettable day the family has ever experienced."

July 31: Zodiac

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First Zodiac letter to the San Francisco Chronicle

July 30: Jaws

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Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Truly great monologue. Only, Robert Shaw got his lines wrong. That would be July the 30th, 1945. Sorry, Bob...

July 26: Zodiac

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