“History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom…
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French critics considered Ridley Scott’s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that’s just to…
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Joaquin Phoenix is oddly mesmerizing as the French emperor in Ridley Scott’s historical epic charting his rise and ruin.
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But scholars say that a trailer for Ridley Scott’s new film draws attention to the French emperor’s complex and lasting…
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Inside the creation of one emperor’s famous headwear, as worn by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s film.
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The black bicorn hat, believed to have belonged to the 19th century French emperor, had been expected to sell for…
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