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Tilda Swinton plays both mother and daughter in “The Eternal Daughter”

The idyllic Tilda Swinton has made yet another mediocre, strained film: "The Eternal Daughter". This time she plays both leading roles: a dusty mother of Victorian character and an obsessive-compulsive daughter, barely distinguishable from one another, who find themselves in a long-since-sold family estate. Tilda&

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After the Fall into the Abyss of Khazad-dûm, Gandalf the Grey Is Indeed No Longer the Same

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In life, the cantankerous alarm clock from Beauty and the Beast is considerably larger than in the film

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Cillian Murphy in 2007 on the set of “28 Days Later” on Vasilyevsky Spusk in Moscow

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Eva Green as the Venus de Milo, Bernardo Bertolucci's “The Dreamers”, 2003

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In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of…

In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of a society of rare-book collectors, a beautiful agent who deals

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It seems Bonaparte himself was not as good at being Napoleon as Marlon Brando managed to be in 1954

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Spielberg Is Making a Miniseries About Napoleon

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Thanks to John Richardson (1934-2011) and Raquel Welch (1940-2023), who died yesterday at the age of 83, and to their appearance in the 1967 film One Million Years B.C., primitive people will remain in my imagination for ever with impeccable…

A dark-haired bare-chested man underwater looks upward, resting his hands on pool steps, in a photograph with blue tones.

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Underwater photograph by Bob Frame for Premier Magazine, 1998

Why didn't Brendan Fraser play the Amphibian Man? Photo for Premier Magazine, 1998, Bob Frame

Elderly moustached man in pince-nez, a white tunic with orders and medals, and a white feathered helmet, with a horse behind him.

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Man in pince-nez, white dress uniform and plumed helmet in the second half of the 20th century

Tell me, am I the only one who thinks the Governor of Bermuda in the early 1960s, Major-General Sir Julian Gascoigne, in old-fashioned full-dress uniform and pith helmet, looks like the chief antagonist of the first Jumanji film, the demented hunter Van P. And do not forget

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Orson Welles's “Macbeth” of 1948 and Its Lack of Budget

Orson Welles's "Macbeth", 1948, is perhaps one of the most original interpretations of Shakespeare. Welles complained of a shortage of funds, which showed in the costumes and sets, but it may now be said that in many respects this gave the picture its unrepeatable aesthetic. Interestingly,