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EXCLUSIVE: It appears Baz Luhrmann has found the title heroine for his Warner Bros epic Jehanne d’Arc. Deadline hears he’s in ...
The Queen’s Gambit' breakout Isla Johnston is now in early talks to take on the coveted lead in Luhrmann’s next epic.
After recently expressing her desire to play Joan of Arc, it looks like Wednesday star Jenna Ortega won’t be getting her ...
Timothy Kelly, Melancholics’ co-founder, plays Chad-Michael, the kind of pageant director you love to hate—somewhere between ...
Becoming Joan of Arc In 1429, at around the age of 17, Joan asked the Dauphin to send her, and an army, to the siege of Orléans, a French city in the Loire valley which was at the time was under ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals how Joan of Arc’s execution was driven by politics and gender norms, as her choice to wear male ...
Joan of Arc has long been a troublesome figure for historians. Existing documentation of her life and her trial for heresy is unreliable in many ways. There is the issue of language, as her French ...
The Joan of Arc parade, which marched triumphantly through the packed streets of the French Quarter on Saturday, is absolutely one of the best parades in a town that knows a little something about ...
Only when I watched Carl Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc did I begin to think differently. More it was Renée Falconetti’s performance as Joan that turned the tables on me, her tears.
The Joan of Arc parade was the first Carnival procession of the season. It was also the first big public event in the French Quarter since the New Year's Day mass murder.
Joan of Arc didn’t mention this incident when she reclaimed her own power and went back to the stake. But we are mentioning it today; and she would have been with us.