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...CVNE Enter this barrel-shaped bunker and step into French architect Philippe Mazières' vision of 21st century winemaking. Towering 17.5 m above a glass floor, a giant mechanical arm delivers crushed grapes into the 72 stainless-steel tanks that line the circular walls. Even more impressive are two enormous caverns bored into the hillside that store 22,000 barrels of crianza. "Making wine used to be like a secret in the Rioja," says tour guide Nunia Noja. Now it's like the underground lab in a James Bond film. www.cvne.com...
Black Sheep. Perhaps the most remarkable character interviewed is Christian de la Mazière, an aristocrat who, like many another young idealist, loathed the sordid confusion of French politics. He swallowed revolutionary ideology whole, and of the two forms possible to him in 1940-Communism or the Germans' national socialism- he chose the latter. This film follows De la Mazière all the way to the Eastern front where, in the uniform of the Waffen SS as part of the infamous Charlemagne division, he fought against the Russians. Rueful, logical, charming, ready to regret...
MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Mazière. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Mazière has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...found the descendants of the master sculptors living in "the most unbelievable wretchedness." Now under the rule of Chile, they were penned up like sheep in a small compound, subject to forced labor, denied anything more than elementary education, refused the right to emigrate. As a gesture of sympathy, Mazière and his wife moved into the native village. According to Maziere, this apparently impolitic decision was largely responsible for the expedition's success. The Mazieres shared with the islanders whatever they had. In return, the islanders shared with him a series of progressively more esoteric legends...
...November morning in 1941, a Mazi counter-intelligence agent, Sergeant Hugo Bleicher, followed up a tip and burst into Toto's Paris hideout. By night-all The Cat was in a prison cell...