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...but it’s directed by Roman Polanski....
...The upside of not demanding only brand-new work is that programmers can cherry-pick the finest produce from other events while discarding those that arrived blemished or outright rotten (you won’t find Roman...
...The refined, elaborate “Crescetis Amores”, nude Venus suckling three putti, vividly reworks Roman sculptures of cupids and of the goddess of love....
...the credentials of Kirill Serebrennikov, a dissident film-maker who spent 18 months under house arrest for dubious fraud charges, though the fact that the film was partly funded by sanctioned oligarch Roman...
...A traditional type of old-school Roman, they live in centuries-worn palazzos and have never felt the need to belong to any club other than the one they were born into....
...He also mentions Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (“a reference for how to use a set to tell a story, an invisible story”) and Michael Haneke’s Amour (“it gave me confidence that it could be achievable to...
...But the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, pioneers of last year’s so-called Abraham Accords with Israel, are now loud in protest at events in the city of Abrahamic faiths....
...One piece made in response to the pandemic is Abraham Cruzvillegas’ Agua Dulce, imagined as an oasis of health and consisting of more than 1,000 native Floridian plants, many historically used in healing...
The director’s film was a controversial inclusion at Venice, but it fails to match the hullabaloo
...Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy is a retelling of the Dreyfus affair, the story of a falsely accused man who is finally vindicated....
...But it’s the vintage pieces – emerald rattan armchairs by Janine Abraham, rope chandeliers by Audoux-Minnet and rattan daybeds by Louis Sognot – that lure the design-world fanbase....
...It was the 2,000th anniversary of the Roman discovery of these quarries in the Egyptian desert, and I slept under the stars in a remote camp outside the Temple of Serapis....
...The Plane Tree, 31 Roman Road, London E2 (theplanetree.co.uk) The best gift I’ve given recently was to my new godson, Oscar....
...But every so often we get a glimpse of Rick’s neighbour, the sunny, stunning Sharon Tate, soon carrying Roman Polanski’s baby, and the film gains an extra ominous charge....
...I have two must-visit restaurants: Trattoria Al Moro, a typically Roman trattoria near the Tivoli fountain serving delicious fresh pasta; and Nino on Via Borgognona, where the seasonal Tuscan food is always...
...A citadel crowns Urfa, but the joy happens below, around carp pools that legend links with Abraham, in the cave/mosque that Muslims revere as the birthplace of the patriarch and in the tight-packed bazaar...
...Bibliography 1994 Island of Abraham Poetry collection, now out of print....
...Hereditary comes to cinemas 50 years (spookily, almost to the day) after Roman Polanski’s seminal film, adapted from Ira Levin’s novel, about a pregnant woman who becomes convinced that a cult has diabolical...
...In summer 1902, a few months into America’s Great Coal Strike, which was to prove one of the defining crises of his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt set out to finish reading a 10-volume biography of Abraham...
...Abraham and Sarah view the impending destruction of a nearby city with alarm. Orfeo cannot be with Euridice....
...Directed by Roman Polanski, 1966 Criterion Collection Criterion’s steady run of quality releases continues with Roman Polanski’s 1966 satire-cum-thriller....
...More male comic despair was to be found in Piuma (Feather), an Italian crowd-pleaser about a young Roman couple’s unplanned pregnancy....
...In the Bible there is Abraham sitting outside his tent, waiting for passers-by so that he can wash their feet and show them hospitality....
...If these beautiful, privileged young Romans are unhappy and alienated, what hope is there for the rest of us?...
...During the first century BC, the wealth of empire destabilised the Roman republic. In the end, Augustus, heir of the popular party, terminated the republic and installed himself as emperor....
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