Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the little River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015 the castle, which had
Cinema · Science · People
Oksana Kiyanskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, specialist on the Decembrists and academic consultant to the film "The Union of Salvation", has confirmed that the Chevalier Guard friends will return to the ranks. The team is working on the series
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Michel Piccoli worked trouserless before it became mainstream. A still from Pierre Granier-Deferre's 1981 film "A Strange Affair" ("L'Étrange Affaire"). The circumstances in question are far from the humour with which a state of semi-undress is received today. The affair
Cinema · Paris · Pop Culture · Humour
Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel
Architecture · Cinema · Observations · Heritage
My favourite part of any castle is the drawbridge. Unfortunately, the cinema pays this feature attention only in siege scenes; after that, the focus falls wholly on walls and arrow slits. And for the most part the bridges shown are monotonous and dull. Here is an example of an interesting
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Aristocracy · Architecture · Cinema · Books
The interiors of Highclere Castle in Hampshire, ancestral seat of the Earls of Carnarvon, built in the early seventeenth century and rebuilt in 1838–1878, may be seen not only in the series "Downton Abbey", which made the castle famous, but also in the comedy film "King
Cinema · Monarchies · Mores · People
On 24 April 1671 the outstanding French maître d'hôtel, restaurateur, impresario and founder of catering, François Vatel, brought his life's journey to an end. Vatel's name has become a byword for restaurateurs and chefs the world over: the man was so devoted to his
Art · Cinema · Humour
Works by the Swiss artist Emile François Chambon on modern lovers and stills from the film by the Soviet director Leonid Gaidai "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures". Both date from the 1960s. Evidently this charming aesthetic of naive romanticism, of the builders of a new
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I sometimes watch the programme with the Vernik brothers on Kultura. And I cannot say that I have once been pleased with it. The gentlemen simply do not measure up: they fall short of the standard of a federal channel, at least as I conceive it. Even the two of
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Jean-Luc Godard, aged 89, live on the Instagram of the University of Lausanne, where he once taught a course on cinema. One gets the feeling that Godard does not quite grasp what the young people are up to here, and simply chills, puffing on a cigar as he answers
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Let us watch some genuine Soviet classics. An Extraordinary Concert is a puppet play by Obraztsov, with roots reaching back to 1946. Like everything that sets a standard, An Extraordinary Concert is as relevant today as ever. And in any case, you will take real pleasure in this cultivated, subtle