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During the early '90s when the VHS era was going strong, I'd often find myself poking through the "Foreign Film" section at The Video Bar looking for movies tha
Tinto Brass is having a career revival. The Italian director is mainly known in America for having his name on the infamous Caligula . You couldn't go into a vi
Tinto Brass is known mostly in America for being the Italian director of the infamous Caligula that starred Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Peter O'Toole. Wh
Since it opened its doors in 1905, the Metropol Hotel in Moscow has witnessed seismic events in Russia’s 20th-century history. In its early years it was a glittering playground for wealthy merchants, louche cavalry officers, and ladies of leisure and luxury. When the Bolsheviks seized power, Tsarist officers beat a retreat to the hotel to fight a last losing battle against the revolutionaries. Afterward, Lenin requisitioned it, renamed it the Second House of Soviets, and sent from it the telegram instructing the massacre of the deposed Tsar Nicholas and his family. The building became a hote...
When the Nazis came calling in 1939, Kitty Schmidt wasn’t interested. She was the madam of “Salon Kitty,” a swank brothel in Berlin and one of the last sex-for-sale establishments legally allowed to operate in Germany.