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The Death of Smaug, a Drawing by Tolkien Himself
The death of Smaug, a drawing by Tolkien himself. Incidentally, the film turned out rather similar.
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Can it be a coincidence that two of your favourite films were made by the same man?
I have only just learnt that the Australian director George Miller, who turned 79 yesterday, made both "Mad Max" and "Babe".
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Mindadze’s co-author does not classify their joint films as art house in the modern sense
One of the finest masters of Russian cinema, the director Vadim Abdrashitov (1945-2023), when asked whether he considered his films arthouse, replied:. I think that the pictures Mindadze and I made can hardly be assigned to this, so to speak, movement. So to speak, I stress. Because we always
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Found a copy of Vogue Hommes from November 1994 and spotted a brilliant advertisement on the back cover for Chanel's Égoïste Platinum
Found a copy of Vogue Hommes from November 1994 and spotted a brilliant advertisement on the back cover for Chanel's "Égoïste Platinum". The image is a still from a 30-second film of the same year by the scandalous French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, set to
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It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic
It turns out that Théoden of Rohan also found time to captain the Titanic. The question "where was Gondor when we needed help?" acquires a new ring
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Is it even legal for Netflix's Alexander to wear the same armour as Netflix's Vikings?
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The French Olympic Team at the Opening of the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and the Beauxbatons Academy Delegation at the Goblet of Fire Games at Hogwarts
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Authentic 17th-century sakkos from the New Jerusalem Museum in a film shot in Alma-Ata
In Filming "Ivan the Terrible", Sergei Eisenstein Used Authentic Historical Costumes. The film was shot while Mosfilm was evacuated to Alma-Ata. At the same time the city was also sheltering, in evacuation, the collection of church textiles of the New Jerusalem Museum, the foremost assemblage of Russian
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Observations
Vladimir Mirzoev on the new screen adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
It is no accident that Dostoevsky tops the IMDb ranking of the "100 Greatest Authors of All Time": he remains not merely one of the most published and most read writers, but also the most adapted for the screen. But why does it matter to go on adapting
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The makers of The Crown have, of course, flattered Charles rather a lot
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Gandalf, after promising to return with the first light of the sun on the fifth day
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