Venice in the Movies/4 – Moonraker
Escaping from a killer dressed for Japanese kendo only to fall down from the clock tower in Piazza San Marco, embarking on a chase along the canals and then come out again in San Marco […]
Venice in the Movies/3 – Visconti’s Death in Venice
Having to choose just one movie which condenses the image of a decadent Venice – the one beloved by so many artists and writers over the past two centuries – it is impossible not to choose […]
Brodsky’s love affair with Venice
In addition to being one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century and a Nobel Prize laureate, Joseph Brodsky, was madly in love with Venice and his Watermark: An Essay on Venice stands among the […]