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So a film that does well at the box office automatically counts as commercial?
In my view, the director Konchalovsky Jr. is quite mistaken in this instance
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My Favourite Sitcom
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Tarkovsky to the Rescue, Lads!
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The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community
The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community. This opinion was expressed to TASS by Mikhail Shvydkoy, the Russian President's Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation. "This is a question that the filmmakers themselves must decide," he said, stressing
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Federico Fellini adjusts Marcello Mastroianni's hair on the set of 8½, 1963
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Catherine Deneuve Turns Up at the César Awards in a Monkey-Fur Coat?
Catherine Deneuve turned up at the César Awards ceremony in a monkey-fur coat? So she did kill her husband in «The Brand New Testament» after all?
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Catherine Deneuve, aged 22
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The bishop's tent and the whole setting of the scene before the Russian host's battle with the Livonian dog-knights in the film "Alexander Nevsky" recall the pavilions of the Saracens, especially as the snow looks rather more like sand
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Children wiping car windows at a Moscow intersection, as in 1990s films
Little Street Musicians of Montmartre, 1937. Remember how, in the films of the 1990s, children earning a living on city streets by washing car windscreens at junctions and selling chewing gum and flowers were a common sight? Then they vanished from view for a while, as the economic situation changed.
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Jamie recreates a frame from the shower scene in “Psycho”, shot over a week in 70 takes
Wow, I had no idea that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh, the actress from "Psycho", and Tony Curtis, the actor from "Some Like It Hot" In this photograph Jamie poses in imitation of the shot from the shower scene in "Psycho&
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The film “A Room with a View” and a photograph of a couple at the window of an ornate façade
Two at a Window of the Doge's Palace in Venice. It put me in mind of the film A Room with a View. If you have not seen it, it is essential viewing, a jewel in the golden fund of world cinema.
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