The only COURT CIRCULAR story which ever pleased me, was that of the King of Spain, who in great part was roasted, because there was not time for the Prime Minister to command the Lord Chamberlain to desire the Grand Gold Stick to order the first page in waiting to bid the chief of ...
specifically the story of the lovers, Tristan and Iseult. Many of thelaiswere translated into Old Norse in the 13th century, while two,LanvalandLe Fresnewere translated and adapted into Middle English in the 14th century. Thelaiswere narratives, written ...
Behind the ScenesDevelopmentFile:NadiaBlue.jpg Miyazaki's story proposal for Toho was developed further into Gainax's Nadia: The Secret of Blue (1990).Ever since he was in elementary school, Hayao Miyazaki dreamed of creating a film based on Jules Verne's seminal fantasy works, namely Twenty...
Hitchcock discovered, with 1963's The Birds, that the sheer terror of "not knowing" the reasons behind the sweeping global outbreak of evil can be the most horrifying part of the entire story. The "Zombocalypse" genre is so enduring that it's still going strong today (hello, Walking Dead...
L’histoire de Souleymane (a.k.a. Souleymane’s Story) (Boris Lojkine) Le Fil (a.k.a. An Ordinary Case) (Daniel Auteuil) Juror #2. (Clint Eastwood) Quand vient l’automne. (a.k.a. When Fall Is Coming) (François Ozon)
On the very next day but one I was sitting behind my glass partition, as before, when he came into the outer office, as before. The moment I saw him again without hearing him, I hated him worse than ever. It was only for a moment that I had this opportunity; for he waved his...
Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell, Carol Kane, and Danny DeVito lend their voices to this animated story about a family of ducks who accidentally wind up in New York City for the winter during a failed attempt to migrate south. Rebel Moon Part 1...
Robert Wise got the idea of The haunting while he was in pre-production for West side story. One day, while reading Shirley Jackson's book...I was reading one of the very scary passages — hackles were going up and down my neck — when Nelson Gidding... burst through the door to ...
The movie is epic in scale (it only covers half the book, with the second half to be dealt with in Dune: Part Two, to be released on October 20, 2023), and Villeneuve was the perfect vessel for this story, having previously directed Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. In some sense, ...
Wearing for the occasion a kind of sombrero hat and a short sleeveless cloak with a hole in the middle in which he resembled a monk, he would be accompanied by a young coachman to push him up the hills. At the downhill slopes, the young man would be told to “ jump on behind,” ...