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Have you ever heard the sound of cicadas? I am sure that, if you have, the rustle of a flock of birds is ringing in your ears even now, suddenly turning into a full, rolling cry that falls as though from above with a crackle, striking every surface with a
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Watching "Khraniteli" (The Guardians), the Soviet heartfelt screen adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, based on the splendid translation of the novel by Muravyov and Kistyakovsky, in which many details cut from the plot in Peter Jackson's version have been preserved. Tom Bombadil, for instance,
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A reproduction of Van Gogh's self-portrait in the setting of the 2003 Bollywood romantic comedy "I'm Going Mad with Love"
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He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, or three
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The film is devoted to the end of British rule in India. Lord Mountbatten, who presided over the partition of British India into Pakistan and India, is played by Hugh Bonneville. His wife, Lady Edwina, is played by Gillian Anderson. Michael Gambon plays Lord Ismay, the Chief of Staff, who
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A Hundred Years Ago the TikTok Girls Were More Talented. Poster for the first screen adaptation of Frankenstein, 1910. The film runs for 12 minutes and is packed with metaphors of the meaning of existence and the search for the capacity to feel in earnest. The Monster looks more modern