In the Press · Cinema
The second week of the Cannes Film Festival brought premieres of several notable films. The film critic Andrei Plakhov, in an article for Kommersant, tells of the most eagerly awaited among them. Kirill Serebrennikov's "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" Out of competition, the festival screened Kirill
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Faith · Society · Rome
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. The Apostle Paul, First Epistle to Timothy, 2:12 Pope Leo XIV has appointed the former superior general of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor as secretary of one of
Art · Moscow · People · Society Pages
Today the Andrei Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka opens a solo exhibition by Boris Kocheishvili, “Cloud, Lake, Tower”, marking the artist's 85th birthday. Boris Kocheishvili is one of the most important artists of the 1970s generation, a nonconformist and a solitary figure who shuns artistic expediency in his work.
Geography · Moscow · Society
Moscow, however, takes first place by many other measures too. Before the annexation of New Moscow, the city's area was 1,081 square kilometres, which put it in third place in the list of the largest capitals of Europe
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Fresco of the Tree of Life with Christ crucified on its trunk. Painted in 1556 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the very same who made portraits out of vegetables, and Giuseppe Meda in the transept of Monza Cathedral, north-east of Milan
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Architecture · Cinema · Madrid · Observations · Rome
A little more on architecture. And on cinema. For the filming of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), a full-scale reconstruction of the Roman Forum was built at Las Matas, near Madrid. Covering 92,000 square metres, four times the size of Red Square, it became the largest
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