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Yury Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov and Georgy Vitsin on the set of the film “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, 1966

Photo by Oleg Mertsedin

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Fire at Saint Theodosius of Chernigov Cathedral in Cleveland, where “The Deer Hunter” was filmed

Built in 1913 on the initiative of the St Nicholas Society, the Cathedral of St Theodosius of Chernigov in Cleveland is rightly counted among the finest examples of Russian church architecture in the United States. Among the donors to its construction was Nicholas II. The prototype for the church was

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I don't know about you, but to me Frances McDormand and Willem Dafoe make a perfect pairing

I don't know about you, but to me Frances McDormand and Willem Dafoe make a perfect pairing. A pity that they have only two pictures together so far: the old "Mississippi Burning" and "The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun"

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Tom Bombadil in Amazon's new season of "The Lord of the Rings" and Tom Bombadil in the 1991 Leningrad Television play "The Keepers"

Tom Bombadil in Amazon's new season of "The Lord of the Rings" and Tom Bombadil in the 1991 Leningrad Television play "The Keepers". The Briton Rory Kinnear against the Soviet actor Sergei Parshin

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Bertolucci, asked about reincarnation, recalled a poem by Borges: "the fish lives in the ocean, and a man remembers that he was once a fish"

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Arnold's finger method for multiplying by nine and the Chinese rule

An unexpected method of multiplication is offered by Arnold from "Hey Arnold!". The method works for multiplying by 9 and, it would seem, corresponds to an old Chinese rule of multiplying on the fingers: To obtain the result of multiplying by nine, hold both hands open and fold

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We begin our screening of "Little Buddha" with Karo.Art at the October Cinema Centre

We begin our screening of "Little Buddha" with Karo.Art at the October Cinema Centre. As usual, I have prepared extracts from ancient tomes for discussion after the film. We shall be talking with the artist Mikhail Rubankov. And a little later I shall invite everyone to my

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Poster for the film “Star Wars: Episode I”, 1999

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Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac on the Place Vendôme, 1965

Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac on the Place Vendôme, 1965. Françoise Dorléac appeared alongside Deneuve in Jacques Demy's musical The Young Girls of Rochefort and in the film Where the Spies Are. Françoise was 18 months older than Catherine. Françoise Dorléac was a very well-

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I watched the new Major Grom: what is the film actually about?

In the first film, the protagonist, Igor Grom, an officer of the Saint Petersburg police, appears as a veritable Russian superman without any evident weaknesses or, as critics noted, motivation. One is left with the impression that people endowed by nature with incredible willpower and a sense of justice invariably

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It is held that from the 1980s onwards Italian cinema found itself in crisis; among the reasons cited is the proliferation of private television channels, which drew the viewer's attention away from the cinemas, and as a consequence…

In 2007, during the Cannes Festival, Quentin Tarantino, a great admirer of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, described the state of affairs in Italian film as tragic, because the work of recent years strikes him as samey, dreary and soul-destroying: "They are about either boys coming

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