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Venus and the Sun is a 2011 short film based on myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses directed by Adam Randall and starring Keeley Hazell, Will Smith, and Ukweili Roach. It was written by Reuben Grove and produced by Andy Brunskill. The film premieres in London on 10 March 2011 at the Rich Mix Cinema, Shoreditch
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...
The Long Rain. " The Long Rain " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's ' photographic revolver '. [2][3][4] It is the oldest "film" listed on IMDb and ...
February 24, 2024 at 9:28 AM. Jenna Ortega's new movie casts Natasha LyonneMichael Tullberg - Getty Images. Klara and the Sun, the upcoming film starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, has added ...
Venus in fiction. Venus appears in many pulp science fiction stories. Seen here is the winter 1939 cover of Planet Stories, featuring "The Golden Amazons of Venus". The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on conditions at its ...
In Roman folklore, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. The Greek name for this planet was variously Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or Heosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer"). [10] Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of Aurora [11] and ...
Paradiso. (Dante) Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante 's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.