Every year, Venetians reenact the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus and Armenia, who renounced her throne in favor of Venice in… Read More »Venice reenacts the welcome to Queen Caterina with a regatta
The 74th Venice Film Festival reunited Jane Fonda and Robert Redford fifty years after they played newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park, the 1967 classic.… Read More »The movies that are the talk of Venice and the world
There is nothing in life like the certainty of death. Absolutely everything else is uncertain. Foxtrot begins with a view of truck hood as it… Read More »‘Foxtrot’ paces the life of a traumatized family and their soldier boy
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were awarded two Golden Lions last night for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival. Both U.S. actors… Read More »Jane Fonda: ‘I live for sex scenes’ with Robert Redford
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson has brought to Venice Under the Tree, his third feature film. Of those your correspondent has seen so far in the third… Read More »‘Under the tree,’ an Icelandic saga of common men and women
William Friedkin, the maker of The Exorcist, the 1973 classic movie, had never seen an exorcism. Almost half a century later, and with curiosity… Read More »Friedkin: If I knew, I would not have made ‘The Exorcist’
After its umpteenth and final reconstruction since it was built in the mid-10th century, the Church of Santa Maria Mater Domini in Venice in 1551… Read More »A Tintoretto character reincarnates in today’s Venice
As the Architecture Biennale at Venice draws to an end, the final events verse on the fleeting nature of exhibitions and, generally, all things that… Read More »A World of Fragile Parts
The Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice is hosting an evocative exhibition on Aldo Manuzio, the celebrated 15th century printer and publisher. With a vision to… Read More »Mobile devices of the 15th century
