Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people. Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman) Today's Birthdays 11/08 1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with... 1847 Bram Stoker...
Aztec emperor Montezuma welcomed Hernán Cortes into Tenochtitlán with a great celebration in 1519. That worked out well for him, didn't it? The Bodleian Library opened to the public in 1602. The Louvre was opened to the public as a museum in 1793. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays in 1895 and the death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1965. Born today: Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476),...
By Alexander Burns Motion pictures entertainment at home is becoming easier and easier. For now you can download, first-rate motion pictures straight to your own computer and right in the luxury of your own home. It is the easiest and most economical way until now to obtain films and it also presents the advantage of every time being able to get the exact motion picture that you are looking for. Trading...
*UPDATE* The Royal Chains ( Issue # 10 ) - Pop / Rock - New York, USA Featured some months ago in regards to their free album Umbrella , the Royal Chains have a fabulous new single out: "Wolf" . The sound is noticeably cleaner and more focused than that heard on their debut album (though I do love that for it's grittiness too), summery and catchy as ever! --- Francois Peglau - Pop / Rock...
Alain Delon – who was perhaps the handsomest movie star human being EVER ! – was spotted front row at the Alena Akhmadullina fashion show in Paris today, typically surrounded by a bevy of beauties. They don't seem to mind that he's aged bit since his Purple Noon heyday. Frankly, I don't either. Come on: HE'S FLIPPIN' ALAIN DELON! He could look like a piece of dried up turkey gristle and...
Copyright 2009 Menton Daily Photo. All rights reserved. A young Alain Delon on the cover of a book and a pretty young girl lunching at Le Balico in Menton. I love that the patron displays interesting books around the tables.
The former French justice minister Rachida Dati shrugged off her recent problems to attend the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday. And just to…
Le Samourai: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai (1967) isn’t quite a samurai film, and it isn’t quite a gangster film. It tells a story that touches on both – three days in the life of Jef Costello (Alain Delon), a syndicate hit man who has no life outside of the job he’s hired to do. [...]
The first international movie to be filmed entirely in the UAE, �Djibouti'' focuses on an extraordinary rescue operation. Directed by Frederic Forestier ("Asterix at the Olympic Games� and "The Peacekeeper�) and starring the legendary Alain Delo
This year the Toronto International Film Festival presented a pair of films that bore the mark of iconic Hong Kong director Johnnie To: his directorial effort Vengeance and a film which he produced, Accident . We had the chance to sit with the director and talk about these two pictures and more. TB: First I'd like to ask about the beginnings of VENGEANCE, where the story came from. I know you've been...
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There's an undeniable love for cinema among the French. I could only speak of great envy if Manille's cinema houses were like those in Paris with much variety. When you go through Allocine, you see a lot of films showing...
Winter of 1978 – Martín (7) We were already living in Buenos Aires, and the movies starring French actors Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo were very popular, as they somehow portrayed the prototype of the ‘Argentine macho’. They would always look impeccable (especially Delon), with their hair combed back with gel (‘gomina’, as we called it) and showing a charm...
Dune ; Exhibition of a film of a book that was never made. 17th September - 25th October The Drawing Room Tannery Arts Brunswick Wharf 55 Laburnum Street, London E2 In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with...
Meet Mambo, a little dog who received third degree burns over forty percent of his body. How? Two youngsters (17 and 22 years old) poured petrol over the animals and set it alight - just for kicks. Mambo has become the subject of great national emotion, and a website gathered over 11,000 petitions for a severe [...]
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