"Before the Revolution","Last Tango in Paris","The Last Emperor"
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Last Tango in Paris - Wikipedia  Last Tango in Paris is a 1972 Franco-Italian erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recently widowed American who begins an...
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TSPDT - Bernardo Bertolucci  From his first feature, Before the Revolution (1964) his films display nostalgia for .... Before the Revolution, The Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Stealing...
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The Last Emperor - Wikipedia  The Last Emperor (Italian: L'ultimo imperatore) is a 1987 British-Italian epic biographical film about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose...
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Bernardo Bertolucci - Wikipedia  Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, ... The film which shortly followed was his acclaimed Before the Revolution (Prima della...
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After the Revolution: On The Fate of Cinephilia - Digital Collections  Bertolucci's Before the Revolution .... years after Last Tango in Paris, an ultimately masochistic gesture in the direction of sexual ..... Bertolucci's work of the following decades encompasses the terrains of Asia (in The Last Emperor), South Asia...
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FILM - France's Revolution, Staged for a Multimedia Age - NYTimes ...  Jun 25, 1989 ... It's a revolution.'' ... But not since ''La Marseillaise,'' Jean Renoir's unfinished film, which many ... ''Even the French don't understand the Revolution; it took an ... helped turn the Hotel de Lassay inside out to the cast and crew. ... ''My name is Marie Antoinette, I'm 38 and I'm the widow of the King of France.
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The Last Emperor (1987) - Synopsis - IMDb  When Pu Chieh tells his brother that he's not the emperor anymore, that there's a new ... Outside", Pu Yi is informed, "China is now a republic, with a president." ..... He announces that he is to have an heir. ... The sound of Japanese Emperor Hirohito's surrender broadcast in the newsreel takes Pu Yi back in time once again.
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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid ... Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 (Social Science Classics Series) ... This is a new translation of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, written in 1851. Best known as the author of Democracy in America, Tocqueville focuses...
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HIST 450 The British Raj: Film List  Some of these films are of average quality and imperfect in their historical ... Below is a selection of films useful for complementing our study of the history and culture of British ... Mountbatten, The Last Viceroy (1986) .... Director: David Lean, 1984 ... a study of colonial relations, perceived differences between East and West,...
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DVD Savant Review: The Last Emperor - DVD Talk  Feb 21, 2008 ... 1987 / Color / 2.00:1 anamorphic widescreen / 165 + 218 min. ... Bernardo Bertolucci advances the case of the historical epic with 1987's big Oscar winner The Last Emperor, ... Filmed in English and Chinese in the real Forbidden City in Peiping, ... Pu Yi marries a pre-chosen bride, Wan Jung (Joan Chen).
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July 28: Liberty Leading the People | Louvre Museum | Paris  The Paris uprising of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, known as the Trois ... he had applied to Massacre at Chios, a painting inspired by the Greek war of independence. ... a journey, a human passion... or an event that changed the course of history and ... Delacroix had used a similarly rigorous composition for his painting entitled...
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Modern Movement: How The Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance ...  May 30, 2013 ... Lon Bakst's 1912 costume design for The Afternoon of a Faun. ... No surprise the original was performed just nine times in Paris. ... Diaghilev knew some Russian choreographers and dancers who were also eager ... The story goes that when asked how he jumped so well, Nijinsky answered, "It's simple.
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi  Editorial Reviews. Language Notes. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Chinese ... This firsthand description of the dramatic events of Pu Yi's life was the basis for the internationally acclaimed 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film ..... The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China Paperback.
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Moulin Rouge! (2001) - IMDb  Drama  A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, ... Directed by Baz Luhrmann. ... Moulin Rouge! ... Turner Delays Launch of FilmStruck Movie-Subscription Service ... Strictly Ballroom .... The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the...
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The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman  Reviews, Discussion ...  Presents a fresh view of the American Revolution, chronicling key events from .... high school, reading her The Proud Tower and The Guns of August at the time. ... the irony for me is that this is the last one she wrote prior to her death in 1988. ...... for The Guns of August, a history of the prelude and first month of World War I.
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Frida: raises an eyebrow | Reel History | Film | The Guardian  Jun 17, 2010 ... USA  europe  UK  skiing ... There's a lot of painting by numbers in Julie Taymor's 2002 biopic of the ... Thursday 17 June 2010 05.09 EDT Last modified on Monday 21 ... Frida did indeed get covered in gold dust during this crash, and was ... The exiled Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush) moves in with Frida, and...
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The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle  Reviews ...  The French Revolution has 531 ratings and 50 reviews. ... which says it best: "It is part of my creed that the only Poetry is History, could we tell it right. ...... Dickens based his novel A Tale of Two Cities on this book which he called 'wonderful' in...
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Musicals - Dance Films  From 1958 to 1968, there were five musical Best Picture winners out of eight nominees. ... However, by the end of the 1960s and early 70s, musicals were virtually ... Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962), one of the last lavish musicals from MGM, a circus film .... making a total of thirty-three films in his career from the mid-50's to 1970.
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The Ides of March: Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Christine Feddersen ...  From the pen of the international bestselling author of The Last Legion comes a ... thriller set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesar?s Imperial Rome. ... be better served by Thornton Wilder's far superior book with the same title. .... the events that occurred on the fateful day from which this novel derives its title.
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\ MUSICAL HIGHLIGHT Less is More: A Primer on Musical Minimalism  the extended ballet in Act II of Nixon in China, one of the clearest examples of. Minimalism in the opera. Based on ... by the musical and dramatic contrasts among six equally important main characters: Richard ... deputies Henry Kissinger and Chou En lai. The drama ... and Chiang Ch ing,v wrote composer John Adams.
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'The Last Waltz' Chronicles The Beginning And The End Of One ...  3 days ago ... ... The Last Waltz, about The Band's star-studded 1976 final show, is ... Waltz is one of the most hallowed music documentaries of all time. Filmed at the original group's farewell concert appearance in 1976, the movie is half-concert film .... Last Waltz is a thorough portrait of a group whose musical legacy is...