Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen’s new film, announced as a romantic comedy, is far superior to the disastrous Match Point and Cassandra’s Dream (Scoop, his second London film, has yet to be shown here), but much inferior to his best work. It centres on the adventures of two broadly defined young Americans in Spain, film-maker and photographer Cristina [...]

Barcelona: a big capital that can also be a small town

What happens when we first hear the words Barcelona? Surely we think of words like Gaudi, Sagrada Familia, the beach, paella, tapas and sun. But we also think about tourists, traffic, garbage, and we’ll surely think of a big city. The fact that Barcelona is the largest city in Catalonia, with over 1.6 million inhabitants, [...]

Berlin film festival 2009

Berlin is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city and as such, every year (since 1951) it celebrates one of the most important film festivals in the world: The Berlin International Film Festival, this year being its 59th edition. More than 19,000 film professionals from 120 different countries will gather in the German capital next February (5th [...]

Berlin Apartments: Graffiti street art

Berlin has lived an important process of continual redefinition and change since the Reunification in 1990. Now it has become world-famous because of its international architecture, its performing arts and its cultural diversity. Moreover, Berlin rates as one of the best locations for street art and graffiti. Read the rest of this post here: Apartments blog SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: [...]