There’s an assumption in certain artistic circles that when the theaters reopen, audiences are going to want to be uplifted. Light comedy, soothing song, maybe a tear or two of reconciliation, but nothing too dark or challenging after a pandemic that lasted more than a year and a political crisis…
Issued on: 15/01/2021 – 04:44 An original painting by Tintin creator Herge sold for a record 3.2 million euros ($3.9 million) at an online auction on Thursday, auction house Artcurial announced. The item, intended as a front cover for “The Blue Lotus” volume from 1936, easily beat the previous record…
How could two filmmakers plummet from such glittering heights to such murky depths? “It’s nuts, isn’t it,” Robey tells BBC Culture. “I think the dividing line between quality and camp is perilously thin in the biopic. Something about the high seriousness of the genre seems to invite mockery. And then…
Buried beneath a weather report and an investigation into a regional planning commissioner, a brief news item appeared in The Times about the death on Jan. 23, 1980, of architect Paul Revere Williams at the age of 85. Three days later, the paper ran an obituary. That report was a…
Issued on: 14/01/2021 – 17:00Modified: 14/01/2021 – 17:03 To mark the anniversary of Coco Chanel’s death on January 10, 1971, fashion expert Jessica Michault and Eve Jackson take a look at the French designer’s greatest styles, the fashion empire she created and her not-so fashionable links with the Nazis. Source link
For comic book fans, the show has obvious roots in stories such as 80s series Vision and the Scarlet Witch – where the couple marry and settle down – and Tom King’s 2016 tale The Visions, which follows Vision as he tries to live an ordinary life with an ordinary robot…
À l'ère d'Instagram, la photographie architecturale est devenue obsédée par la ligne de toit dramatique, l'escalier en colimaçon, la silhouette d'une forme géométrique austère qui semble planer au-dessus d'une montagne accidentée. Il s'agit d'une photographie soigneusement éclairée et filtrée sans relâche, conçue pour montrer un bâtiment sous ses meilleurs angles.…
Debbie Allen is having a moment. Yet again. In the early, uncertain days of the pandemic, the dance mogul was a joyous presence, teaching free dance classes to thousands of people on Instagram. She navigated COVID-19 in real life and on the screen as an actor, director and executive producer…
Ronald Reagan gave it to Martha Graham. George W. Bush gave it to Dolly Parton. Barack Obama gave it to Sonny Rollins and Meryl Streep. President Trump became the first president not to give it at all for two years. If you guessed, “What is the the National Medal of…
But nevertheless Tunisian moviemakers have managed to develop their industry by introducing new genres, technologies and ideas. Two prime examples of the invention and innovation occurring in the country’s cinema are Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s Dachra (2018) and Ala Eddine Slim’s Tlamess (2019). Dachra is the country’s first horror film and has…