23 Apr 26
Now the Picture is as Dynamic as the Sound! You Watch It! You Experience It! You’re In It!
23 Mar 26
Wiki for Arts and Studies
Wiki for Arts and Studies
Wiki for Arts and Studies
21 Dec 23
The Sudbury Devil was released for streaming today after being only on the arthouse circuit for a while.
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06 Sep 23
‘It Was Like Hosting the Ultimate Party’: An Oral History of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ | Vogue
There would be no beheadings in her script—nor much to do with the French Revolution at all. Rather than reduce the queen to a sentence she never actually said—“Let them eat cake”—Coppola wanted to show Marie Antoinette as she was: a young woman never taught to consider life outside the gilded gates of Versailles.
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07 May 05
‘Unfortunately, such ahistorical claptrap has become standard fare for journalistic and even pseudo-scholarly “summary assessments” of The Crusades’
06 May 05
“the film subscribes to the skewed view that the Crusades were fueled purely by fanaticism and greed, and fails to convey that – initially – they were, rightly or wrongly, in the words of medieval scholar Thomas F. Madden “defensive wars … an attempt
05 Apr 04
“It has to be one of the most obscene forms of death ever invented by man,” said Zias of the execution method practiced between 400 BC and AD 400 also by the Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Carthaginians and other ancient civilisations”
26 Feb 04
review by a Church History Ph.D. candidate