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Young Tolkien in the Costume of Hermes. And four hobbits in plain white togas beside him. It is interesting to look at Gandalf through the prism of the antique pantheon. In part he may be an embodiment of Hermes-Mercury. First, as a messenger of the gods; second, as a
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The Venice Festival was born under Mussolini's warm wing. Its founder, Giuseppe Volpi, a rather successful Italian politician, sat on the Grand Council of Fascism right up to 1943. True, when he spoke out against the alliance with Hitler, he was not merely driven out of every post
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Michèle Laroque, I think everyone will remember this actress: at 19 she was in a car crash, and, with multiple fractures, the girl, who had loved sport and dancing, found herself bedridden for a long time. She was able to walk again only after two years. At that time the
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In the 1960 French film adaptation of Voltaire's "Candide, or Optimism" I noticed an interesting detail. In the twentieth-century version, Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh lives not in Westphalia but somewhere a few steps between Alsace and Lorraine, and this time he, like previous generations of
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June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre. 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema rubric: a piece on the first vampire serial 📌 The
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The 10 Best Films of the 21st Century According to The New York Times:. 1. Parasite, 2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho 2. Mulholland Drive, 2001, directed by David Lynch 3. There Will Be Blood, 2007, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 4. In the Mood for Love, 2000, directed by
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Yura Borisov Invited to Join the American Film Academy. Borisov is on a list of 534 performers and film industry professionals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA, the organisation that awards the Oscars each year. The list includes recent
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Rowling is an executive producer of the project and is not involved in writing the scripts. Filming of the series will begin in summer 2025. Each season will be devoted to one book of the original series. Pictured: the new Severus Snape, Paapa Essiedu, a British actor whose parents came
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Not very well known, but still the winner of several film awards as director, actress and screenwriter, Zabou Breitman is the daughter of the fairly recognisable, if second-rank, actor, director and screenwriter Jean-Claude Deret, a descendant of baptised Jews from Russia. Zabou's mother is the actress
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To be perfectly honest, one always felt sorry for the poor Alien, especially in the instalment where he took Ellen Ripley for his mother, and she flew off without him in a spaceship