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"I have just confiscated an interesting little item from Mr Potter, a scroll of black magic." "It looks more like a parchment that tempts anyone who reads it. But it would be better to study its possible hidden properties"

"I have just confiscated an interesting little item from Mr Potter, a scroll of black magic." "It looks more like a parchment that tempts anyone who reads it. But it would be better to study its possible hidden properties."

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Here Katharine Hepburn is asking Zena a question

Here Katharine Hepburn is asking Zena a question. She looks rather serious about it.

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The Greatest Musician of All Time?

The greatest musician of all time? Mozart. One of his finest operas is "Don Giovanni". A pity that you cannot hear the hysteria of the audience at its staging in the Estates Theatre in Prague. But, happily, in 1979 Joseph Losey filmed a screen version that follows the

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In 2018 the Franco-Belgian historical film "One King, One France" was released, in which Gaspard Ulliel (1984-2022) played one of his last roles: Basile, a lowborn fighter for liberties who builds his love and his life in…

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The only consolation is that Daenerys finally flew too close to the sun

Cinema · Books · Paris · People

Molière is credited with the remark that one day people would speak of the French language not as the language of the French, but as the language of Molière

Molière is credited with the remark that one day people would speak of the French language not as the language of the French, but as the language of Molière. However presumptuous these words may have seemed to his contemporaries, the audacity proved prophetic. One of the greatest dramatists in history

NB! · Archive · Cinema · Moscow

Deleted Scenes from the Film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"

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Wolf photographed for the first time in Luxembourg, where the species was exterminated in 1893

A wolf has been photographed in Luxembourg. What of it, you ask? Firstly, the picture unmistakably shows the wolf from the cartoon "Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog" [Zhil-byl pyos], voiced by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Secondly, wolves were exterminated in Luxembourg as long ago as 1893,

Art · Cinema · Moscow · Museums

A Remarkable Discovery!

A remarkable discovery! One of the opening scenes of Sergei Parajanov's comedy "The First Lad" repeats, down to the last detail, Tatyana Yablonskaya's famous painting "Bread". The composition, the placing of the figures, the colour scheme, even the blue hem tucked up

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Well, Well, Vera Alentova

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Jean-Luc Godard through the Lens of Hedi Slimane

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Hand pruning of a tree in the late 19th century and Sofia Coppola’s film “The Virgin Suicides”

Saw this tree and was reminded of Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides". If you haven't seen it, consider it a recommendation for the holidays. The photograph shows the pruning of a tree at the end of the nineteenth century. This is no