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"And who gave you leave to hang portraits of your floozies in here?"
"And who gave you leave to hang portraits of your floozies in here? Eh? Who put up this slattern?" "That is Mozart, sir." "The Barber of Siberia"
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Johnny Depp to Film The Master and Margarita
Johnny Depp is to film The Master and Margarita. It is also known that Depp will play the lead in the first English-language screen adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel
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Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette on the set of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, 2006
She was, incidentally, 24 then. Now she is 43. But this is only the beginning
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Drawings by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin with scenes for Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris
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Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who has departed to the Lord at the age of 75, bore the name Panteleimon in Orthodox baptism
Cinema · Society
Estonia considers banning cinema screenings of films dubbed into Russian
The Estonian Government is considering amendments to language legislation that could ban cinemas from screening films dubbed into Russian. The aim of the initiative is to encourage audiences to watch films in the original language. The bill still has to pass its second and third readings in parliament. If adopted,
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Hard to say whether 2025 did Brienne of Tarth any good or not?
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So autumn has passed, as though it had never been. A digest of the most interesting posts of November for cosy reading:
📌 For the youngest alchemists of the channel: three magical alphabets 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird rubric: a review of Guillermo del Toro's new “Frankenstein” 📌 I tell the story of the recovered jewels of the Habsburg dynasty 📌 In half a century California has built 22 prisons and 1 university; we
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Good morning and breakfast wishes with a photograph of men in a kitchen
Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins and Joanne Woodward in the Kitchen, 1958. Good morning, and a hearty breakfast to all!
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Gandalf the White Vanquished Sauron; Gandalf the Terry-Towelling Saves Middle-earth from a Draught
Faith · Cinema · Mores · Rome
The late myth of executions involving gorillas and chimpanzees in Ancient Rome
Stills from the 1932 American historical film "The Sign of the Cross", on ancient Rome and Nero's persecution of the Christians. The execution scene involving a gorilla or chimpanzee belongs to a very late myth about Roman mores. There is no confirmation that such a practice
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Review of the film “Frankenstein” as a story of two solitudes
From the new del Toro film one gets the sense that he has been waiting a good while for the chance to show off his new horrors to the lads and say: look what a monster I've got, and what a character! The critics leave the auditorium deep