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WHAT WE FOUND
Warriors from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in a misty forest
Where Was The Odyssey Filmed? The Locations Christopher Nolan’s Greek Epic Brings to Life
Nolan shot The Odyssey in real places, not on a green screen. Troy is an old fort in Morocco. The underworld is a cave in Iceland. Ithaca is a castle in Sicily. Six countries in all — and you can visit most of them. Plan the trip. ›
A chimpanzee resting its chin on its hand
The Untold Truth of Animal Funerals and Death Rituals
Elephants stand in silence around their dead. They come back weeks later. Crows do something close to it too. Dolphins carry dead calves for days. The odd part is the cost — these animals need to keep eating to live. They stop anyway. See what they do. ›
MORE GOOD STUFF
A Mickey Mouse gas mask made for children during the Second World War
Walt Disney Helped Create a Mickey Mouse Gas Mask During World War II
America thought poison gas was coming, so it planned masks for children. Walt Disney designed one shaped like Mickey Mouse — big glass eyes, round ears, a snout. About 1,000 were made. Britain built its own version too. See the mask. ›
The house cocktail at A La Renaissance in Paris, pale pink with cucumber, on a marble bar
The Drink of the Summer
A small bar in Paris makes a cocktail with pastis, Campari, lime and cucumber. Cold, sharp, easy. The bar handed over the recipe. You have everything but the orgeat. ›
TOP SHELF
A 220-foot superyacht at $827,000 a week. Twenty-five samurai-inspired Lamborghinis, Japan only. Aristotle’s eleven excellences for a flourishing life — being good-looking is one of them.
ONE TO FOLLOW
A post from the film account filmatic
@filmatic
A daily film account. Short posts on how movies get made and who is making the next ones — like the horror directors Hollywood found on YouTube.
LAST WORD
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”