No longer possible to meet Jeanne Moreau on Boulevard Haussmann. The same Paris that gave birth to her testified last July 31th the silent and domestic closing of her enigmatic and sad look. Miles Davis had been born two years before her, far away. His gaze was also sad, but his death was not silent, rather angry, as it was all his life. Both shared an unforgettable night.
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The last day of February 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, The Raven, is published in The Evening Mirror. Replying to certain criticisms received, the poet publishes a year later his essay Philosophy of Composition.
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The American artist Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is today recognized as a pioneer of animation films, especially in the field of so-called visual music.
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Richard Neutra designs and builds between 1934 and 1935 a house for the filmmaker Josef von Sternberg, few years after he premiered his famous film Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930). Alejandro de la Sota builds in 1972 a home for the Guzmán family. Both buildings have been demolished, at different times but in very similar circumstances.
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I like the game of the double life, the world of fantasy where anything can happen. The beauty of the fantasy would not be the one that it is without the other side of the coin, the reality.
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The Amalienburg hunting pavilion, and in particular its Spiegelsaal [Hall of Mirrors], has been source of inspiration for many works of very different creative disciplines.
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Stanley Kubrick uses two different houses, the Jaffe House of the TEAM 4 and the New House of Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield, for the shooting of one of the most impressive sequences of A Clockwork Orange, the domestic assault of the writer Frank Alexander and his wife.
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François Truffaut films in Lisbon the beginning of La Peau Douce (1964). It’s analysed here the possibility of a graphic reconstruction of the Lisbon fragment sets, exclusively through movie images. (Abstract of the paper presented at the International Conference AVANCA CINEMA 2016 July 28th)
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The privilege of the cinema is that it allows many people to dream the same dream together showing us, in addition, with the rigor of realism, the phantoms of unreality. In short, it is an admirable poetry vehicle.
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