Sentences with phrase «of opium dens»

While in Quetta, Pakistan in 1974 he shot numerous images of opium dens «that ultimately became some of the most visually exquisite and most carefully crafted photographs in his entire oeuvre.»

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Combined with the place's Chinese - restaurant - of - yesteryear / opium - den decor, the whole experience is a trip.

The film's real feat may be in its production design, in the sumptuousness and veracity with which it re-creates central Saigon and the Vietnamese countryside of the»50s: an exotic lost world of brothels and opium dens, trishaws and ao - dai dresses, Ming - deco interiors and water buffalos in rice paddies.

Ives recruits Chandler for the titular night work, and along with explorer Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), they descend into a subterranean chamber of horrors beneath an opium den.

As its Grand Guignol and penny dreadfulness unfold in the dockyards, back alleys, gin houses and opium dens of a corrupted capital baying for blood (and that enjoys a good show), the film's commitment to anatomising a marginalised demimonde oppressed either for its class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality might almost earn it the label of Marxist.

Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X # 2 is out today, from Red 5 Comics, at your finest comic shops, opium dens, and hoosegows.

Before it was reborn as one of Singapore's chicest boutiques, the Warehouse Hotel was the site of a notorious 1980's disco; farther back still, its riverbank was known for opium dens and all manner of illicit trades.

Opium dens, meteorite dust, alchemy and potatoes — we dig up ten eye - opening facts about the German artist ahead of his landmark Tate exhibition.