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...But it’s worth it, to quote L’Oréal.” The film’s scale is such that we also now see a trace of history repeating in real time. For much of the shoot, modernity was mostly defined by Covid....
...A trip to the Musée de l’Orangerie? Ice cream by the Seine? Mais oui! Yet the French capital also backdrops sorrow....
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...“When I started to get involved in floristry, around 2006, it was all about rose domes,” says Leigh Chappell, as we walk towards the white crenellated walls of Strawberry Hill House....
...The FT’s Danny Leigh gives it three stars — I’m a solid five, because this sort of emotional uplift is a rare treat....
...But the director opens the film in August 1997 through the lens of amateurs, camcording Australian tourists in night-time Paris, chancing on the Pont de l’Alma traffic tunnel....
...Here’s Danny Leigh’s review, which my head says is exactly right, while my heart is with Raphael Abraham....
...Taking the fight to the Moon, the story goes full gaga Promethean, a Haribo sci-fi mash-up of The Matrix, Georges Méliès, Kubrick (poor Kubrick) and L Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth....
...At the weekend the city will celebrate the Fête de l’Escalade, commemorating a victory over the Catholic duchy of Savoy in 1602....
...L’Eclisse (1962) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, iTunes and (US) The Criterion Channel Michelangelo Antonioni made a star of the city’s financial centre in the stylishly cynical love story L’Eclisse, set...
...To begin our screwball journey, the movie carried us into town on the Autoroute de l’Ouest in a white stretch limousine....
...Such talent, critics will sigh — the stars are Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson and Salma Hayek — so little to work with. Save your sympathy. Even before the fees, making the film was clearly a blast....
...We are dining in the basement of the Musée de l’Orangerie, surrounded on all sides by Monet’s water lilies. It has to be in Paris, as Samuel Beckett refuses to travel....
...Yet the actors who play the beneficiaries of “Pits”, now deep into old age, are exceptional — a string of fine-grained performances coming from Hurt, Samuel L Jackson, Ed Harris and the late Peter Fonda,...
...Wilder co-wrote his screenplays with scribes such as Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, often in cantankerous relationships....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
...In 2014, after numerous collaborations with director Mike Leigh, he starred as JMW Turner in Leigh’s elemental Mr Turner ....
...France’s L’Oréal warned that coronavirus would cause a slowdown in China’s beauty market, an important growth driver....
...The director-designer team of Karolina Sofulak and George Johnson-Leigh obtained their commission by winning the 10th European Opera Directing Prize out of 214 creative partnerships from 32 countries....
...They’re not quite that shocking, when we’ve seen so many of them before: just as the deep blue something clapping with one hand in Leigh Bowery drag barely warranted a flicker of the eyelids....
...We look like extras in a Mike Leigh film and clutch scraps of Ordnance Survey maps. This week I walked up Mam Tor, which was very windy and extremely cold....
...The Commons will move into Richmond House on Whitehall and use a debating chamber created by covering over the courtyard formed by the “L” of the building....
...Derick leads me to a clifftop high above L’Escalier Tête Chien, a lava pavement partially submerged in the churning surf. Adjusting his pink baseball cap, he tells me the local legend....
...Irving Penn: Centennial, edited by Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L Rosenheim, Yale University Press RRP£50/Metropolitan Museum of Art RRP$70 Record of another stunning Met show this year, celebrating the...
...Rowley Leigh...
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