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...Perfume is being filmed in English. "The language barrier is a big barrier," says Eichinger. "You cannot do big-budget movies in Germany because of the limited market. I think the generation making movies today is much more oriented toward a global film language." His own production company, Constantin Film, is one of few to survive the 2000 collapse - and closure three years later - of Germany's Neuer Markt, the "new market" in media and technology. Today Constantin is the only German production company that can go toe-to-toe with Hollywood. Eichinger makes films for the German market mixed...
...have an approach to the skyscraper as a sculptural element," says Calatrava, who likes to recall that when sculptor Constantin Brancusi set eyes on the New York skyline in the 1940s, he declared it looked just like his studio, a bristling collection of abstract statuary...
...just walk into one of these shops so I worked the obvious ploy, waiting until a tourist couple entered and tagging along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched...
Although his weak lungs made it hard for him to lift a hammer, Modigliani initially thought of himself as a sculptor more than a painter. Three years after his arrival in Paris, he would meet Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor whose search for simplified line and form would touch something deep in Modigliani. It was through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage...
Despite these incidents, HUCEP escort Constantin C. Crachilov ’04 said that many students have refused his help during his first hours...