le vendredi 14 novembre 2008 [n° 2244] General
Zora Neale Hurston at the New York Times Book Fair
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"Une femme noire"
Zora Neale Hurston participa à la Renaissance de Harlem en produisant le magazine littéraire Fire!! ((Only one issue of Fire!! was ever published. Fire!! challenged the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, who believed that black art should serve as propaganda, and many within the African American bourgeoisie, who ...
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Ann May Wong (1932)
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Anna Mae Wong, américaine d'origine chinoise, fut sans doute la plus jolie et la plus talentueuse Asiatique du cinéma Hollywoodien. A l'époque où les spectateurs américains faisaient une grande consommation de films exotiques, elle sut imposer avec infiniment de grâce et de mystère, son charme troublant de "femme-dragon". ((Anna My Wong Pseudonyme de Wong Liu ...
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le mardi 22 avril 2008 [n° 2036] Cinema
TOPPER (1937)
Director – Norman Z. McLeod,
Screenplay – Eric Hatch, Jack Jevine & Eddie Moran, Based on the Novel by Thorne Smith,
Producer – Hal Roach,
Photography (b&w) – Norbert Brodine,
Musical Director – Marvin Hartley, Musical Arrangements – Arthur Marton,
Photographic Effects – Roy Seawright,
Set decoration by William Stevens and Arthur I Royce
Art Direction – Arthur I. Royce. ...
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le vendredi 28 mars 2008 [n° 2009] Cinema
GUNGA DIN
You may talk o' gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The ...
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LES HOMMES LE DIMANCHE (Menschen am Sonntag) ((Présentation par Bernard Nave
LES HOMMES LE DIMANCHE (Menschen am Sonntag)
1929 / 1930
Durée : 1h14
Réalisation : Robert Siodmak et Edgar G. Ulmer
Scénario : Billy Wilder et Fred Zinnemann
Image : Eugen Schüfftan et Edgar G. Ulmer
Interprétation : Erwin Splettstösser, Wolfgang von Walterhausen, Christel Ehlers, Brigitte Borchert, Annie Schreyer))
Le dimanche, jour de loisirs de ...
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