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Tonight's viewing: Kirill Serebrennikov's "Stalin's Funeral"
Tonight's viewing is Kirill Serebrennikov's "Stalin's Funeral". This documentary production is not only, nor even chiefly, about Stalin and his burial. It is about people living in terror, about the inner answers to the most painful questions, about the eternal matter of
Cinema · Humour
Jack Arnold’s Spiders in the Films “Tarantula” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man”
Which is scarier: a giant spider threatening an entire city, or an ordinary spider attacking a man shrunk to the size of a thimble? The proper person to ask would be the director Jack Arnold (1916-1992), who, after all, had to conjure up both of these afflictions. It must
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Werner Herzog and the ship which he (or rather 700 Indians) hauled over a mountain during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, 1982
Werner Herzog and the ship which he (or rather 700 Indians) hauled over a mountain during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, 1982. If you have not yet seen this epic film about the madcap attempt of a fanatical music-lover to build an opera house in the heart of the Peruvian
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Childhood and adult portraits of Hitchcock with the same facial expression
Astonishing, really. Hitchcock carried the same unchanging expression through his entire life
Art · Cinema · Museums · New York · Humour
Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister
Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister. Portrait of 1805, environs of Hamburg.
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Anna Chipovskaya in Ksenia Zueva’s film “Intervention” as a young woman on the social margins
The other day I attended the premiere of Ksenia Zueva's film "Intervention" with Anna Chipovskaya, who plays a girl in difficult life circumstances. It was most unusual to see Anna in a new guise, at least to my eye: that of an ordinary girl from our
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The recently released trailer for "Pishcheblok" once again draws attention to Russian television series: it looks intriguing, stylish and atmospheric
The recently released trailer for "Pishcheblok" once again draws attention to Russian television series: it looks intriguing, stylish and atmospheric. The makers have plainly succeeded in recreating the atmosphere of the Soviet era. For those who are not well versed in our contemporary literature, this is an adaptation
In the Press · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The recent, almost viral surge of interest in the occasionally hilarious and thoroughly un-Peter-Jacksonian television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, as staged by Leningrad television in the 1990s, has raised a question of sorts: is it really so sur
The recent, almost viral surge of interest in the occasionally hilarious and thoroughly un-Peter-Jacksonian television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, as staged by Leningrad television in the 1990s, has raised a question of sorts: is it really so surprising that citizens of the USSR were acquainted
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Sarah Bernhardt as a Sculptor: The Chimera Inkwell, a Self-Portrait of the Actress
Did you know that the most famous actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt, was also a gifted sculptor? Some 50 of her sculptures survive. This fanciful inkwell, for example, is the actress's self-portrait, entitled Chimera.
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Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt on the Mount Rushmore relief, recreated in a studio set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film "North by Northwest" with Cary Grant
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On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people
On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people. It was spoken of as "the interview that shook the world". Twenty-six years have passed, and it is still not entirely clear why