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The Ancestors of Actor Timothée Chalamet Come from Minsk
Timothée Chalamet's ancestors are from Minsk. There is no more news for today.
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British director Catherine Round films taxi drivers of Kamaishi, a city hit by the 2011 tsunami
The Briton Katharine Round has made a documentary about Kamaishi, a town on the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture that was engulfed by the tsunami in March 2011. Round set up cameras in the cabs of taxis and left them running. In the frame are four drivers, Toru Konno, Yoshiji
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May the Force Be with You
May the Force be with you
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Casper reads Carnegie's book in the 1945 cartoon “The Friendly Ghost”
In the very first Casper cartoon, Famous Studios' "The Friendly Ghost" of 1945, Casper reads a book called "How to Win Friends". This is Dale Carnegie's bestseller, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It turns out that Casper is the
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Catherine Deneuve on the set of Jean Aurel's film “Manon 70” in October 1967
Catherine Deneuve in October 1967, during the shooting of the film "Manon 70" directed by Jean Aurel
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Carney convenes provincial premiers and First Nations leaders in Ottawa; Alberta and Quebec decline
Ottawa is witnessing something Canada has not seen for two decades: Prime Minister Mark Carney is holding a large-scale meeting with provincial premiers and the leaders of Indigenous peoples or, as they say in Canada, the First Nations. The authorities speak of a reset in relations with Indigenous peoples
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Rossy de Palma at the Zurbarán exhibition in the Louvre and the film series of the “Spain in the Louvre” programme
At the Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre I made the acquaintance of Rossy de Palma. Everyone who has seen Almodóvar's films of the eighties and nineties knows her, from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" to "Kika". Madame Rosa Elena was invited
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Swedish filmmakers locate the Paris spot where Daguerre photographed the Boulevard du Temple in 1838
In the spring of 1838, Louis Daguerre, the French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, was testing a camera on which he had been working for almost a year. The daguerreotype was the first practical method of photography: the image appeared on a silvered copper plate. Daguerre photographed the view
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Emmanuel Marre's film "Our Salvation", about his great-grandfather in Vichy, is released in France
On 30 September the Belgian-French director Emmanuel Marre's film "Our Salvation" opened in French cinemas; in May 2026 it won the prize for best screenplay in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Strangely enough, this large political picture pleases audiences from the left
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The Ramayana in Hollywood Cinema, from “A Little Princess” to Nitesh Tiwari’s Film
I have read a piece on how Hollywood cinema makes use of the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic in Sanskrit which tradition ascribes to the poet Valmiki. The epic tells of the exile of Prince Rama, the abduction of his wife Sita by the demon Ravana, and her rescue. In
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Martin McDonagh directs Wild Horse Nine, about CIA agents on Easter Island
I read that Martin McDonagh, the author of "In Bruges", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and "The Banshees of Inisherin", has made a new film, Wild Horse Nine. John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play the CIA agents Chris and Lee. In 1973 they have
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British author finds her autism in “Amélie” as the post's author voices doubts
I have been reading how a young British authoress recognised herself in the heroine of the film "Amélie". She was, so we are told, diagnosed with "autism" in her early twenties, although her parents had suspected it since childhood, because she had no friends and could