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Ancient Egypt
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Saturday, 9 August 2025
On Blu-ray - Belated discovery of David Hare's thoughts on LAND OF THE PHAROAHS (Howard Hawks, USA,
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From Warner's 2k Blu-ray of Land of the Pharaohs . Joan Collins (above, with Jack Hawkins) wears the sum total of that year's supp...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
Streaming on Netflix - Rod Bishop finds a documentary on Ancient Egypt that is rating its socks off - SECRETS OF THE SAQQARA TOMB (James Tovell, USA/Egypt, 2020)
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Years ago, I did a course in hieroglyphs. Our Egyptian professor was enthusiastic and made it sound so easy. It wasn’t, but there was a big ...
Sunday, 18 October 2020
Streaming and on DVD - John Baxter contemplates images of ancient Egypt in LAND OF THE PHAROAHS (Howard Hawks, USA, 1955) FARAON (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland, 1966) and more.
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THE FASTEST CAMELS IN CAIRO. Howard Hawks’ 1955 Land of the Pharaohs is one of those train wrecks from which cineastes avert their ...
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