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On Gustav Klimt's birthday, a reminder of the 2015 film "Woman in Gold" with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds

On Gustav Klimt's birthday, a reminder of the 2015 film "Woman in Gold" with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. The plot is based on the story of Maria Altmann, heiress of the Austrian sugar magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who sued Austria for the return of works

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Kira Muratova, Getting to Know the Big Wide World, 1980

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Marc Chagall’s “The Bride” in Roger Michell’s 1999 film “Notting Hill”

In honour of Marc Chagall's birthday, I want to recall the appearance of his painting "The Bride" in one of the most sentimental and, incidentally, highest-grossing of English films: Roger Michell's "Notting Hill" of 1999. The Chagall reproduction in William Thacker&

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One of Romadin's drawings for the film "Solaris" features Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows, who may have appeared in early versions of the script or the director's preliminary work, but is absent from the final version

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Visualisation by production designer Mikhail Romadin and a still from Tarkovsky's Solaris

Illustration of a man seen from behind facing a wall of pipes and instruments, beside a metal door with a cracked surface and a hand reaching through it.

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin and his illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Solaris”

Illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky's production of the film Solaris. Artist: Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin

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When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"

When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". We wanted to do something directly opposite. Recalled by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin (1940–2012), production designer

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Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design

Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. True, the picture contains a number of dubious historical allusions, such as the presence of Mary Tudor at her mother's deathbed, which

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London restores the 1929-31 control room of Battersea Power Station, which once supplied Buckingham Palace and Parliament

London has restored the control room of Battersea Power Station (1929-31), which once kept the lights on at Buckingham Palace and Parliament. The power station has been out of operation since 1981, and since then its premises have been partly mothballed and guarded as a piece of England'

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Today the Italian actress Lea Massari turns 89; she is remembered for her unusual beauty and her work in the films of Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni and Sergio Leone

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Filming Ghostbusters, 1984

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The Kion open-air summer cinema opens with Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn's "Official Competition", starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas

The Kion open-air summer cinema has opened with a screening of Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn's "Official Competition", starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Worth a look, once