Sentences with phrase «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.»

The old gold - mining town, once bustling with saloons, brothels, gambling halls, and even opium dens, is now a ghost town, probably the most famous one in America.

Noodles (Robert De Niro) in a Chinatown opium den in New York's Lower East Side, circa 1933 in «Once Upon a Time in America,» directed by Sergio Leone.

The city became rife with opium dens and brothels.

On the other hand, users on Facebook, as my brother so eloquently describes it are merely, «hanging out in the world's largest opium den.»

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.

View image Final shot, «McCabe & Mrs. Miller» (Robert Altman, 1971): The camera moves in on Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), in an opium den while snow drifts outside.

When the action shifts to the opium den, it comes as a relief — at least here the naked flesh isn't gushing blood.

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.

The House now known as York's Corner started its life as an opium den somewhere near Newcastle Harbour early last century.

The main lane became famed for its opium dens, gambling halls and brothels — it's the capital's original red - light district — but these days it's all about the shopping once more.

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

Mushrooms are a recurrent theme, and his photographs include manipulated images of the opium dens that he visited in Pakistan during the 1970s, some years before his renunciation of drugs and drink.

An old Red Crescent medical bus, seemingly recently discarded by hippies who've turned it into an opium den — the claustrophobic space seems thick with their presence.