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"The film consists of 124 brief sketches, each half-a-minute to about two minutes long. Portraits of people I have spent time with, places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow, blizzards, etc...), many of my film-maker friends, streets and parks of New York, brief escape in nature, out of town - nothing spectacular, unimportant celebrations of life that has gone, by now, and remains only as a record in these personal, brief sketches." Jonas Mekas

Vladimir Putin once stated that Banionis' part in the 1968 Soviet spy film Dead Season was the reason why he joined the KGB.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-dead-season/

Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn’t know Dr. Hass’s appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/n ... box-office

Vladimir Putin has torpedoed proposals to introduce a quota system limiting the number of Hollywood films which can be shown in Russian cinemas. Representatives cancelled a parliamentary debate on a bill to introduce quotas on Thursday, after the Russian president spoke out against the idea last week. “It would be wrong to deny our consumers those goods they would like to have,” Putin told a forum of the All-Russia People’s Front last week, according to the Tass news agency. “It is applicable to the motion picture industry too. It would be unwise to turn down what is profitable.” He added: “The Americans are talented and successful people and there is a lot we can learn from them.”

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:27 pm bestiality

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 4:21 am I thought about reaching out to K. awhile back, 'cuz I was missing him... but I saw that he's unfollowed me. Which hurts, and I think it's not just narcissism.

https://thepraguereview.com/2020/07/01/ ... -prague-8/

The gravestones at Bohnice Cemetery are covered with ivy. The small chapel is in ruins. Ex-patients of the nearby asylum slumber here. So why did Baroness Margaret Thatcher pay a secret visit in 1996?

The 19th Century psychiatric hospital in Bohnice was one of the largest in Europe. Eighty patients a year were buried in the nearby cemetery. In addition to the patients, there are nurses, locals and Italian prisoner-of-war soldiers who caught typhoid in 1916. In the six decades of operation, about 4300 people were buried within the 2.5 hectares.

The cemetery was abandoned in 1963 and became a popular spot for teenagers, ghost hunters and urban explorers. In 1984, director Miloš Forman, used the gloomy atmosphere for a scene for the movie Amadeus.

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In 1996, Baroness Margaret Thatcher (British Prime Minister 1979 to 1990) visited Prague and met with the then Czech Prime Minister, Václav Klaus. There was no mention of her planned visit to Bohnice Cemetery, only the locals, tending their cottage gardens, knew something was happening when a series of limousines arrived and the Baroness stepped out.

They were looking for a specific grave but were unable to locate it. The story goes that some assistants were sent to a local pub (The Tattooed Ferdu) to find a local derelict who used to drink with the former cemetery manager and knew the burial locations. In exchange for a bottle of rum, he agreed to guide them to the grave.

The remains were identified by the presence of a ring. The body was exhumed and taken back to England. Nobody knows who the person was – rumour has it that it was an ancestor of Denis Thatcher.

flip wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:29 pm what happened with kanafani? i thought he was just taking a break

i'd love to see kanafani and thoxans and umbugbene back, and also james• and m penalosa and so many others who have left on what i assumed were temporary hiatuses but which have turned out not to be

Who’s gonna tell Macron the Biden-Putin summit is off?

Trump on Truth Social

sally wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:46 pm Holy fuck, Germany. Well i guess it was inevitable but goodbye 20th century. End of an era.

sally wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:32 pm fucking hell sweden! europe has turned upside down

Silga wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:58 pm what do you mean?