Vienna’s Riesenrad (giant ferris wheel) has played host to some classic movie moments.
Easily the most famous came in the 1949 film The Third Man, based on the screenplay by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.
The story took place in post-war Vienna, where basic commodities (and often morals) were short on the […]
This 1987 movie was the fifteenth in the James Bond series. It was also the first of two films with Timothy Dalton as the British secret service ace, starring opposite Maryam d’Abo as his love interest.
The opening parts of the film take place in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. At the time, Slovakia was still […]
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen cites Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca as the catalyst for his extraordinary life and career. Such was the influence of the Spaniard, Cohen named his daughter (Lorca) after him.
Cohen was asked to translate one of Lorca’s poems and set it to music. The result was the delightful “Take […]
