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Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon on the set of Ridley Scott's new film
Cinema · New York · Pop Culture
The Young and Beautiful Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro
The young and beautiful Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro. The musical New York, New York, 1977. Today Liza turns 76. De Niro is now 78.
Cinema
Stills from Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice
The protagonist chooses his own house as a votive offering to the Almighty, and promises to burn it down if the nuclear war announced on television fails to take place. Grand Prix of the 1986 Cannes Festival. Essential viewing.
Cinema · Heritage · People
The memorial plaque on house no. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Schenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to th
The memorial plaque on house no. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Schenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the USA in 1893, when they were 15
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Stills from Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
Tolkien fans have spoken quite clearly about Amazon's new show based on the appendices to The Lord of the Rings
Evil cannot create anything new, it can only spoil and destroy what good powers have invented. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Evil can also spend billions buying up the rights and try to squeeze the maximum profit out of them.
Cinema · Museums · Observations · Paris
This week the Louvre hosted the filming of several scenes from The Three Musketeers, directed by Martin Bourboulon
This week the Louvre hosted the filming of several scenes from The Three Musketeers, directed by Martin Bourboulon. A few dozen horsemen are riding about the museum's inner courtyard; let us hope that during production someone remembers to photoshop out the blue bins in the background. The film
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The housekeeper objected that acromantula venom is incredibly, extraordinarily valuable
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On this day ten years ago, at only 58, the beauty Maria Schneider died, famed for her roles in "Last Tango in Paris" with Marlon Brando and "The Passenger" with Jack Nicholson
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As for the images from "Quiet Flows the Don", I was reminded of Ulyana Sergeenko's 2019 collection, which was inspired precisely by this screen adaptation of the novel
As for the images from "Quiet Flows the Don", I was reminded of Ulyana Sergeenko's 2019 collection, which was inspired precisely by this screen adaptation of the novel. One can make out lace masks, prints on fabric with steppe landscapes, and headscarves
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Aksinya and Darya veil their faces with scarves in the haymaking scene of “And Quiet Flows the Don”
Strange, really, that with the epidemic upheavals in fashion no designer has borrowed the manner of swathing the whole face in a headscarf from Aksinya and Darya in the haymaking scene of "Quiet Flows the Don". How elegant, and how wonderfully original! The text describes it simply, without