I watched The Pianist either shortly before or shortly after Adrien Brody and Roman Polanski had won at the Oscars. A few years later, in 2004, I watched the film on the big screen during the U.K.-wid...
As the author of the IMDb.com review points out, you wouldn’t find a single person not in love with the story told in the TV series, The Long Road in the Sand-hills (1980). It was shot in Latvia...
Little by little I will be sharing the interviews I made when producing and hosting The LOOK show in Manchester in 2005-2006. The first is the interview with Marc Rothemund, an Oscar-nominated German ...
Biennale – City of Venice agreement FREE WI-FI ACCESS ON THE LIDO The Biennale and the City of Venice announce an important agreement to allow the public, the journalists and the operator...
The first time I heard, well, read about Richard Gere was in the 1990s. It was, I think, a feature in the Russian ELLE magazine. I didn’t see any of his films, but I was of age when it takes ver...
As I was reading Mikhail Romm‘s book on directing in cinema, I came across a chapter on shots and framing, in which Romm illustrates different types of shots through the well-known paintings. I ...
I have just seen a few absolutely wonderful photos of sun-filled Sevilla, photographed by the Russian LiveJournal blogger. One photo, featuring an old couple, is accompanied by the caption: “I i...
My favourite Billy Connolly has once played a leading part in The Man Who Sued God. A similar story was unravelling in 2009 in Texas where the pub wanted to increase their business by erecting a new ...
Church of Cosma and Damian Embassy of Belarus Maroseika, 12 The church of the Unmercenary Healers of Cosma and Damian stands on the corner of Maroseika St and Starosadsky Lane (Side-Street). Both stre...
You should know either all four, or at least one of these names: Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair, Noel Harrison, and The Windmills of Your Mind. I’ve never seen Noel Harrison’s per...