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Weisz & Minghella Head to Ancient Egypt

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2008-03-13 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Ancient Egypt. More specifically, Weisz will play the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, in Roman Egypt during the fourth century. "Trapped in the Library of Alexandria as religious riots flare on the city's streets, Hypatia battles to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. Meanwhile, her slave Davus (Minghella) is torn...
 
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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2008-04-25 02:48:00 by C. Jerry Kutner in Bright Lights After Dark
...Ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three.`By thy long beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me If I were a cartoonist, i.e ., if I could actually draw , Id love to publish a political cartoon depicting Navy man John McCain as Coleridges Ancient Mariner And who would I depict as the Albatross around his neck Why George...
 
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Amenabar Recreates Ancient Egypt

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2008-04-28 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...ancient civilization to inspire awe. As Monika Bartyzel told us last month, Alejandro Amenabar has been busy preparing his next film, Agora , which takes place in Ancient Egypt. Rachel Weisz will star as an astrologer/philosopher battling to save "the collected wisdom of the world" as religious riots flare and threaten the fabled Library of...
 
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Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Was Naturally Born Transsexual

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2008-05-02 18:50:14 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...ancient Egypt, reigned in the mid-1300s B.C. He was married to Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, may have been his son or half brother Egyptologist and archaeologist Donald B. Redford said he supports Bravermans belief that Akhenaten had Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder marked by lengthened features, including fingers and...
 
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Asger Leth to Direct Ancient Olympic Romance

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2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...ancient Olympic Games in Greece as war waged between Athens and Sparta Perhaps the similarities between Ghosts and Olympia is what brought the director to the project, but whatever the case -- I can't wait to see what Leth does with the story. The man has a great eye, and it'll be interesting to see what he does under normal circumstances,...
 
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C.G. JUNG & FILM

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2008-01-25 12:51:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...ancient Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, in creating his film Chac the Rain God . Chac is the fearsome god of rain among the Mayan pantheon, often appearing as the four Chacs, one for each quarter of the universe. He gallops with the wind on a white steed, his sword slashes the clouds with lightning, his thunderous voice splits the sky...
 
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Roland Emmerich & 10,000 B.C.

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2008-04-03 13:35:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...ancient civilisation, so I asked him what is it about these pseudo-historical mysteries that fires his imagination? I believe that these early pyramid builders lived alongside early man, for a long time. There are tantalizing hints in the archaeological record. Only the three pyramids of Giza were claimed by the ancient Egyptians, nobody...
 
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Apocalypto

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2007-03-04 20:45:00 by H. A. Calles in Illustrated Movie Review Blog
...ancient culture In many ways, Apocalypto is not about the decline of an ancient Empire, but only about an anonymous and blissfully ignorant, but brave villager defending his inherited jungle and his family integrity from a group of evil doers coming from an --absurdly near but still unknown to them- city made of stone. The Mayan Empire role...
 
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New Find Pushes Peru Civilization Back to 3500 B.C.

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2008-02-28 18:47:23 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...ancient city of Caral in 2001 Shady serves as a senior adviser to Perus National Culture Institute and was not involved in the project The find also raises questions about what prompted civilizations to form throughout the planet at more or less the same time, Shady said The circular, sunken plaza, built of stones and adobe, is part of the...
 
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MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?

2008-03-26 00:51:51 by John in SF Signal
 
...ancient apologists and mystics Gabriel Mckee Gabriel Mckee is the author of The Gospel According to Science Fiction: From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier , the blog SF Gospel , and Pink Beams of Light From the God in the Gutter: The Science Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick . He ha