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"Anora" has premiered at the Khudozhestvenny, and I hope the film gets a wide release too

"Anora" has premiered at the Khudozhestvenny, and I hope the film gets a wide release too. Mark Eidelshtein is excellent, Mikey Madison plays very well, and Yura Borisov is not bad either. The screenplay does not dazzle, though the direction is up to standard, and it would be

Portrait of a young red-haired girl in a red gown with gold embroidery and a pearl headdress, holding a small book.

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People from sub-Saharan Africa as characters in alternative histories of the West

Anne Boleyn Before and After the Introduction of the New Concept of World Cultural History. Note that, as dramatis personae of the alternative history of the West, they now use chiefly natives of the countries south of the Sahara, rather than non-Europeans of any other description. Precisely those whose

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Pigments, inks and gold of the Book of Hours “Golden Book of the Visconti”

The Book of Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti: a Latin book of hours commissioned by the first Duke of Milan of the House of Visconti in the late fourteenth century. The Book of Hours, also known as the "Golden Book of Visconti", is lavishly illustrated in the manner

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Julia Roberts awarded prize for iconic roles, ceremony on 28 February at Olympic Hall

Julia Roberts Receives Honorary César at the 50th Awards Ceremony. The beautiful Julia Roberts, the heroine who has won the hearts of millions in Stepmom, Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and Erin Brockovich, has been honoured for creating cult characters in the treasury of world cinema, with roles in films that

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Kofemania founder Igor Zhuravlev and the Church of St Blaise in Old Konyushennaya Sloboda

From a new film about Kofemania I learned that its founder, Igor Zhuravlev, who attended the Church of the Hieromartyr Blaise in the Old Stable Settlement, considers the rector of that church, Archpriest Alexei Novikov, the man who determined his fate. Hence the actual icons that hang in all of

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Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene

Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene. The first to appear was a barefoot woman whose movements, by a strange coincidence, echoed the

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At the presentation of the new season of the online cinema Kinopoisk, it was announced that work is under way on a series based on War and Peace by the director Sergey Ursulyak

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David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, Photographed by Helmut Newton, 1988

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Vasily Stalin in His Youth

It must be said that Gela Meskhi, who played the lead in the film "Son of the Father of Nations", bears a certain resemblance to him

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We have Malena at home:

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I think many would be surprised, having booked a first-class ticket on the Titanic, to find themselves in a cabin like this rather than in a vast, gilded suite such as Rose's in James Cameron's film

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