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Tale Of Tales (2015 Film)
''Tale of Tales'' is a 2015 European fantasy horror film co-written, directed and co-produced by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly. An Italian-led production with co-producers in France and the United Kingdom, ''Tale of Tales'' is Garrone's only English-language film. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It is a screen adaptation based on collections of tales by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile: ''Pentamerone'' or ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' (''Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones''), which contains the earliest versions of famous fables like Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. The three tales are '' La Cerva Fatata'' (''The Enchanted Doe''), '' La Pulce'' (''The Flea''), ''La Vecchia Scorticata'' (''The Flayed Old Lady''), which have been freely adapted with elements of other tales by Giambattista Basile as well as a touch of artistic license. Plot The Enchanted Doe I ...
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Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film ''Silhouette'', that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, ''Terra di Mezzo'' in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for '' Gomorrah'' (2008), among many other awards. His film ''Reality'' (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His films '' Tale of Tales'' (2015) and '' Dogman'' (2018) were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively. The Nastro d'argento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with ''Dogman''. He received the latter again for ''Pinocchio'' (2019). Filmography Director Short films * ''Silhouette'' (1996 ...
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Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ..., which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with th ...
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Castello Di Roccascalegna
Castello di Roccascalegna (Italian for ''Castle of Roccascalegna'') is a medieval castle in Roccascalegna, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, southern Italy. History The castle was principally constructed in the 15th and 16th centuries, at a time of military rivalry between the Angevin and Aragonese armies. Architecture A steep flight of steps leads from the plain of San Pietro to the entrance where there are the remains of the drawbridge. On the right there is a tower called Tower of Sentinel. The courtyard leads to other towers: the prison tower and the Angevin tower and the chapel with a gutter to collect rain water that flows into a tank. A further ramp leads to the watchtower built with both stone masonry and brick with openings on all four sides. The walls of the castle surround the overhanging rocky mountainous site of the Castle.Autori Vari, Roccascalegna (CH) - Il castello in Guida ai Castelli d'Abruzzo, pag.148-149, Carsa Edizioni, 2000 Pescara, The castle was featur ...
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Necromancy
Necromancy () is the practice of magic or black magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions, or by resurrection for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events; discovery of hidden knowledge; returning a person to life, or to use the dead as a weapon. Sometimes referred to as "death magic," the term is used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft. The word ''necromancy'' is adapted from Late Latin : a loan word from the post-Classical Greek (), a compound of Ancient Greek (, or 'dead body') and (, or 'divination'). The Koine Greek compound form was first documented in the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century AD. The Classical Greek term was (), from the episode of the ''Odyssey'' in which Odysseus visits the realm of the dead souls, and in Hellenistic Greek; in Latin, and ''necromancy'' in 17th-century English. Antiquity Early necromancy was rela ...
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Gole Dell'Alcantara-pjt1
Gole may refer to: * Gole, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland * Gole, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland * Gole (surname), a family name (including a list of people with that name) See also * Göle, small city and surrounding district in Turkey * Budy-Gole Budy-Gole is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodów, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Pro ..., village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland * Goal (other) * Gol (other) {{disambig, geo ...
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Shockya
Mandatory (formerly CraveOnline Media) is a lifestyle website based in Los Angeles with sales offices in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco. The site is owned by media company Evolve Media, LLC. Mandatory focuses its contents into the male-lifestyle audience, but it has diversified into content for all. Mandatory owns 9 websites and has partnered with many more, producing various content for each site. As of February 2021, it is only available in English. History CraveOnline.com was launched in late 2004 by the online media company AtomicOnline, the publishing division of Evolve Media, LLC. CraveOnline was cited in the 2009 book ''The Man's Book: The Essential Guide for the Modern Man'' by Thomas Fink as a top website for men. Regarding CraveOnline, AskMen.com said, "CraveOnline.com combines entertainment and other interests in one place. Great articles, nice pictures and other cool stuff that you won't want to miss." In March 2013, CraveOnline launched its 3D advertisin ...
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The Flea (fairy Tale)
The Flea is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''.Giambattista Basile, ''The Pentamerone''"The Flea" /ref> Synopsis A king raised a flea until it was the size of a sheep. Then he had it skinned and promised his daughter in marriage to whoever could guess what the skin came from. An ogre guessed, and the king had to marry his daughter to him. The ogre took her to his house, decorated by the bones of men he had eaten, and brought her back men's bodies to eat. She wept by the window and told an old woman her plight. The old woman told her that she had seven marvelous half-giant’s sons who could help her. The next day, the old woman and her sons came and carried her off. The oldest son heard the ogre whenever he approached, and each of his brothers put up an obstacle: one washed his hands and produced a sea of soapsuds, one transformed a piece of iron into a field of razors, one turned a little stick into a forest, ...
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The Enchanted Doe
"The Enchanted Doe" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. Synopsis A king wished for a child; to incline the gods toward him, he was charitable to beggars. When he had spent all his money this way without having a child, he shut himself up in a tower and shot at anyone who came near with a crossbow. A pilgrim came and told him that if the queen ate the heart of the sea-dragon, she would have a child. The king had this done, and the queen gave birth to identical twin boys. One day she grew jealous of the younger, Canneloro, because the older, Fonzo, loved his brother better than her and found a place where Fonzo had been making bullets to go hunting but had left them to get something. She took one hot bullet-mold and threw it at Canneloro, making an ugly wound, and would have thrown another, but Fonzo returned. Canneloro told him he had to leave but, at Fonzo's persuasion, stuck a dagger in the ground, opening ...
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Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.Roger Lancelyn Green: ''Tales of Ancient Egypt'', Penguin UK, 2011, , chapter "The Land of Egypt" The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his '' Pentamerone'' in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charle ...
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Sleeping Beauty
''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awoken by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to waken when the princess does. The earliest known version of the tale is found in the narrative ''Perceforest'', written between 1330 and 1344. Another was published by Giambattista Basile in his collection titled ''The Pentamerone'', published posthumously in 1634 and adapted by Charles Perrault in '' Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' in 1697. The version collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was one orally transmitted from the Perrault. The Aarne-Thompson classificat ...
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Rapunzel
"Rapunzel" ( , ) is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of '' Children's and Household Tales'' (KHM 12). The Brothers Grimm's story developed from the French literary fairy tale of '' Persinette'' by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698). The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ("The Maiden in The Tower"). Its plot has been used and parodied in various media. Its best known line is, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair". Plot A lonely couple, who long for a child, live next to a large, extensive, high-walled subsistence garden, belonging to a sorceress.), despite the common modern impression. The wife, experiencing pregnancy cravings, longs for the ''rapunzel'' that she sees growing in the garden (''rapunzel'' is either the salad green and root vegetable '' Campanula rapunculus'', or the salad green '' Valerianella locusta''). She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. Her husband fe ...
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Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historicall ...
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