NB! · Cinema · Humour
Section
· 760 stories
Cinema
NB! · Cinema · Observations
The state before sleep, when the whole world has turned into Ghibli animation
Cinema · Observations · People · Pop Culture
Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov?
Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov? It turns out that this piercing song was both written and performed by Nadya Gritskevich, that very indie legend of the 2010s. Nadya and I met some
Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle in Slovakia, where “Nosferatu” was filmed, and its film media library
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015, in the castle, where a
NB! · Archive · Cinema · People · Rome
Clint Eastwood Skates Around Rome in the Spring of 1964
Architecture · Cinema · London · Observations · Nature
Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette?
Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette? No, Dostoevsky, with his gloomily coloured texts, is not the chief culprit here. It is chiefly the influence of the textbook templates of the English detective story, tied precisely to the Victorian era, which has
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
The first screen adaptation of “Frankenstein”, from 1910, runs for 12 minutes
The Substance of 1910. The poster of the first screen adaptation of "Frankenstein": the film, made in the early twentieth century, runs for 12 minutes and is brimming with metaphors of the meaning of existence and the search for the capacity to feel truly. The monster looks more
NB! · Cinema
This is how Christopher Nolan's Greeks look
Cinema · Heritage · People
A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the U
A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the USA in 1893, when they were 15
NB! · The East · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith and David Niven in Egypt during the filming of Death on the Nile, based on the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, 1978
Art · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
Ulyana Sergeyenko Continues to Delight with Her Devotion Not Only to the Hollywood Films of the Golden Age but to Refined Masterpieces of World Art
Ulyana Sergeyenko continues to delight with her devotion not only to the Hollywood films of the golden age but to refined masterpieces of world art. This time, the sketches for a couture collection inspired by old circus acts, cabaret divas and the dance shows of the early twentieth century reveal
Archive · Cinema · Science · Nature
The legend of the dog Fram and the fate of the dogs on Georgy Sedov's North Pole expedition
Remember the boy in the film "Podkidysh" who dreamed of becoming, at the very least, a border-guard dog? He probably simply did not know the story of the legendary hound Fram. Fram belonged to Georgy Sedov, who perished during the ill-starred expedition to the North Pole