The series retold various European fairy tales, particularly ones considered obscure in Western culture, created with a combination of actors and puppets. The framing device had an old storyteller (John Hurt) sitting by a fire
telling each tale to both the viewers and to his talking dog (a realistic looking puppet, performed and voiced by Brian
Henson) who acted as the voice of the viewers, and was written in a language and traditional style in keeping with old Indo-European based folktales (for instance the number 3 appears as significant in every episode).
From an early German folk tale. A heartless giant, who once terrorised the land before being captured and imprisoned, is befriended by the young prince Leo who, one night, sets him free. His
older brothers go after the giant to capture him, but do not return, so Leo sets off to find the giant himself. Once found, Leo decides to find the giant's heart, but this is no easy task -
it sits in an egg in a duck in a well in a church in a lake in a mountain far away. No easy task indeed.
From an early German folk tale. The Storyteller recounts the adventures of a boy who goes out into the world to learn what fear is, accompanied by a dishonest but
loveable tinker. He faces many dangers without learning to be afraid, only to learn that fear is at home: the fear of losing his sweetheart.
A soldier returns home after 20 years of war, with less than three biscuits in his knapsack. On his way he meets three
beggars to whom he gives the biscuits, and in return they give him a whistle, a pack of cards and musty sack. The soldier discovers the sack has the power to summon anything into it. Upon arriving at an abandoned
castle overrun with small demons, he captures them in the sack, and only lets them go when they promise to never return. But he keeps the foot of one of them, telling the demon he owes the
soldier a favor for its return.
Quickly becoming the new ruler of the kingdom he saved as well as the castle, his luck runs short when his son becomes deathly ill. Calling upon the demon for the favor, the soldier is given
a glass goblet, and when looking at his son through the glass, he sees Death standing at the foot of the boy's bed, meaning the boy iwill get better if sprinkled with magical water. Then the
Tzar becomes ill and the soldier makes a bargain with Death: his life in exchange for the Tzar's. Death takes his offer and gives the illness to the soldier, curing the Tzar.
Lying in his death bed, the soldier thinks of a way to save himself. He summons Death into his sack, and stops death from happening everywhere. But as time goes on, he sees people everywhere
who are waiting for death that will not come. So he frees Death, who fears the soldier and his sack so much, that he refuses to take the soldier's life.
The soldier, old and weary of life, seeks out a way to die. He travels down to the underworld, forcing the demons at the gates (the same demons from before) to give him two hundred souls and
a map to heaven. Terrified of the sack; the demons agree to his demands. Upon reaching the gates of heaven, he asks to be let in with the souls and is denied. He gives the sack to one of the
souls, asking the soul to summon him into the sack when he has passed through the gates. But since there is no memory in heaven, the soul forgets and the soldier is condemned to live forever
upon the Earth.
The episode stars Bob Peck as the Soldier, and was directed by Jim Henson.
link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storyteller#The_Soldier_and_Death
Quelques années après les évènements de 2001, le Dr Heywood Floyd accompagné d'un équipage russo-américaine est envoyé vers Jupiter à bord du Leonov, vaisseau spatial affrété par l'URSS afin de rejoindre le Discovery One et étudier l'objet étrange
satellisé autour de Jupiter.
Mais leur mission ne s'arrête pas là. Ils devront atteindre le vaisseau américain Discovery et essayer de savoir pourquoi Hal, le super-ordinateur, a mal mené la mission de
Discovery.
Aujourd’hui je vous propose de découvrir pour ceux qui ne l’ont pas encore vu, la bande-annonce française de In The Air, le nouveau long métrage de Jason Reitman a qui nous devons le film Juno, que je n’ai toujours pas vu, mais qui avait été nommé aux
Oscars.
Dans IN THE AIR, Jason Reitman dirige Georges Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick et Jason Bateman.
Les Pussycat Dolls (abrégé PCD) est un un groupe de chanteuses de pop et de R'n'B. Dolls signifie en
français « poupées » et pussycat signifie « chaton ».
Le groupe lance son deuxième album studio intitulé Doll Domination le 23septembre2008 dont le premier singleWhen I Grow Up est diffusé dans les
clubs du monde entier. Le deuxième single, Whatcha Think About That, avec la participation active de Missy Elliott et réalisé par Ron Fair, a été en revanche moins bien accueilli. Cependant, le troisième single I Hate This Part a beaucoup attiré l'attention et est officiellement le deuxième single en Europe. Bottle Pop est le quatrième single de l'album. Les Pussycat Dolls ont affirmé lors d'une interview radio, qu'une de leurs chansons, In Person, sonnait un peu comme dans les années 1960, inspiré de Tina Turner.
Le troisième album Doll
Domination 3.0 est sorti le 10 aout 2009 en Angleterre alors que le single Hush Hush sort tout juste en France.
link : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pussycat_Dolls
