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...Amid the bestiary, his early muse, the actor Klaus Kinski, rears up like a nightmare Hyde made flesh....
...The new sensation’s name is Liam (Daryl McCormack), and his muse proves a great Englishman of letters: JM Sinclair, a grand novelist played by Richard E Grant with the lupine grin of vast success....
...Alongside him are two generations of muses: Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. The source is David Grann’s non-fiction bestseller. More widely, it is also US history....
...What followed would be a stellar, hugely influential career that now brings him to his latest muse: John le Carré....
...But Rocky III remains a muse of sorts. The character’s original rival, Apollo Creed — Adonis’s father — was a flashy proxy for Muhammad Ali....
...At a certain income level, Babette muses, maybe dying is “just documents changing hands”. The novel brims with great lines. Many turn up in the film, sounding exactly like actors quoting Don DeLillo....
...Directors sometimes claim their choices are guided by an indefinable muse....
...As the film drifts into gunplay, Nick ruefully muses that it needs to be more of an action blockbuster. Though the peekaboo with reality is the selling point, some glimpses are surprisingly frank....
...For Clio Barnard, the muse lives in Bradford. Beginning with 2010’s electric, experimental The Arbor, the director has set a string of absorbing films in the post-industrial northern English city....
...If the opening weeks of the war had gone as Vladimir Putin had hoped, the Russian army might have been just there on the far bank, I muse....
...Witness Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, the city introduced in sly comic style with a gonzo montage of a Pearly King and Queen frolicking through Trafalgar Square....
...The inmate is Benicio del Toro, the muse Léa Seydoux. Executed in black and white, the touchstone is genius tyrant Henri-Georges Clouzot....
...So begins the hymn of Federico Fellini to his muse. We could fill this whole list with Fellini: the panoramic Roma, the soulful Nights of Cabiria....
...why everyone from Giorgio Armani (who paid her a reported $10mn in 2013 to be the face of his perfume Sì) to, latterly, Nicolas Ghesquière and Francesca Amfitheatrof at Louis Vuitton has designated her a muse...
...Prominent among the street people passing through is Frenchie, a Haitian-born muse Allah has been photographing for a decade....
...Now with A Glitch in the Matrix, another beloved movie becomes his muse, the 1999 sci-fi classic in which Keanu Reeves abruptly woke from the amniotic fugue in which he and the rest of humanity were unwittingly...
...The result was harder and smarter than the Vikas Swarup novel Q&A it was often contrasted with, then newly adapted by Danny Boyle as Slumdog Millionaire....
...“Ground zero of the biggest cataclysm that ever happened to our planet,” narrator-auteur Herzog muses, audibly impressed....
...He makes a muse for Ree too, of course. For both painter and film-maker, the lure is obvious, an impish small-time crook, childlike and seemingly doomed, among his mosaic of tattoos a pair of demons....
...That sense of lost bearings was shared by the hero — an oafish cop played by Bong’s eternal muse Song Kang-ho, tasked with investigating South Korea’s first recorded serial murders....
...She, however, has other ideas, using the time to interview troubled film director Roland Pollard (Liev Schreiber) — leading, as interviewing directors so often does, to adoption as a muse and a caper into...
...The setting is the concrete-and-tin Lisbon shantytown Fontainhas, an ongoing muse for Costa much as 1950s New York is for Scorsese....
...The muse subsided — until, preparing to play Lowry, it struck again. “On set, I couldn’t stop. They were like Lowry but then more like me. Watercolours.” He considers his tea....
...In the film Cheney muses that no president has fully exploited the power of the office. His genius may have been realising that to do so, it was better not to be president....
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