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...Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy dislikes being labelled “the godfather of goth”; “first and foremost he considers the group a rock band”, as Tolhurst explains....
...Intoxicated by love — and the potent local liquor — he dreams up a foolproof plan to win her heart: he will impersonate New York impresario Bela Zangler, put on a show and save the town’s theatre....
...Hollywood needed a gaunt European eminence with a hint of the gothic: there had barely been one since Bela “Dracula” Lugosi....
...Double rooms from $550 a night; paraderohotels.com NoMad London When, in 2017, the Sydell Group opened the darkly plush and atmospheric NoMad New York, just north of Madison Square Park, its founder Andrew...
...Separately Hungary’s chief prosecutor this week indicted Bela Kovacs, a prominent Jobbik MEP, on espionage charges....
...Mats Almgren was the personification of lugubrious, baleful evil as Hagen, Andrew Foster-Williams outstanding as the easily manipulated, nervy Gunther....
...In America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House), Andrew Bacevich connects the numerous American interventions in the region — from Afghanistan to Somalia and from Lebanon...
...Sarah Bakewell Author of ‘At the Existentialist Café’ More chilly than summery perhaps, but the richest book I’ve read recently is Second-Hand Time , by Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Bela Shayevich...
...; but also novels, biographies of war poets and statesmen, some fine anthologies and powerful first-hand accounts such as The Burning of the World, a memoir of Austro-Hungarian army life by the painter Béla...
...Cooper also praised the Film Factory cinematic school set up in the city by Hungarian director Bela Tarr....
...He also lauded the University of Sarajevo’s School of Science and Technology’s Film Factory school, established under the leadership of Béla Tarr, the Hungarian director....
...Standard Life Investments Select Property Fund said on Wednesday it had sold its two remaining assets – Madison Building in Vila Olímpia and Bela Paulista Building on Avenida Paulista – for a combined total...
...Nothing is fearful here that isn’t funny and endearing too: from Victor’s Vincent Price-lookalike schoolteacher (central European accent supplied by Martin Landau, Burton’s Oscar-winning Bela Lugosi in Ed...
...Economists Bela Balassa and Paul Samuelson first observed the effect in 1964....
...The business was founded in Vienna in 1923 by Bela Horowiz and Ludwig Goldscheider but moved to London in the late 1930s when Austria came under Nazi occupation....
...Béla Tarr, the Hungarian minimalist who crafts lyrical nightmares in black and white (Werckmeister Harmonies, Sátántangó), declares that The Turin Horse will be his last film. Who could be surprised?...
...Where Farhadi’s film was a multi-levelled essay in searching social elucidation, Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse (also praised in my last dispatch), winner of the runner-up Grand Jury Prize...
...Nigel Andrews’ report on the Berlin prizewinners will appear in Monday’s FT...
...The soundtrack includes the spoken introduction (in English) by Béla Balázs, the librettist, which we rarely hear in the opera house. At less than £9, this DVD is a must for connoisseurs....
...North Face (Philipp Stölzl) The Man from London (Béla Tarr) Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis) Stone of Destiny (Charles Martin Smith) The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson) Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser) North...
...Tours, boat trips and the drive home: Nigel Andrews rescues 10 DVDs from a stormy year Infinite choice can be as daunting as none at all....
...Prettiness is seldom in sight in Béla Tarr’s The Man from London or Ulrich Seidl’s Import/Export. Middle-European miserablism gets its time on the Med....
...The answer, as Andrew Smithers of London-based Smithers & Co, has pointed out, is that real exchange rate appreciation is the dog that has not barked....
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