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  For his new, effects-heavy “Alice in Wonderland”, Tim Burton spent a relatively short time filming real-world locations, sticking to the beautiful Antony House in Torpoint, Cornwall and the nearby Charlestown Harbour for the movie’s early scenes. Once Alice falls down the rabbit hole again it is, as you can imagine, mostly CGI-created environments and Hollywood stage sets from there ... Read More »

  Long the king of Manhattan-based comedy movies, Woody Allen returned to his native island for last year’s “Whatever Works” after a five-film, five-year stand shooting films in England and Spain. Alas few of the New Yorkers who usually turn out for the Brooklyn-born director’s real-estate-porn and upper-class-ennui smirkfests bought tickets to the critically panned “Whatever Works”, leaving it with ... Read More »

  You can keep your art critics, museum audio tours, and thick history textbooks detailing the techniques and influences of the world’s great artists. As you can tell by a look at our upcoming title, “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, we think getting out there and seeing the works and homes of great ... Read More »

  Three cheers for manual labor in film! (Guardian UK)   Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director of the 2006 festival hit “Offside”, has been imprisoned by his government for supporting that country’s progressive Green Movement. (BBC)   Despite being the “It Country” of the 20th Century, the U.S.A. has never had a national tourism board, something a recently passed bill ... Read More »

  Well here’s a meme whose time has come. BoingBoing, the enterprising curators that they are, dug up the portfolio of artist Mark Bennett, an illustrator who seems as enamored with the golden age of the boob tube as he is with the architectural draftsmanship. As seen above and below, Bennett has created fully detailed to-scale blueprints of some of ... Read More »

  With our upcoming “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, we do our best to bring the work of Vermeer, Van Gogh, Munch, Caravaggio, and Goya to life by touring you through the locations they inhabited and captured in oils. But we never did figure out how to make them dance. Good thing there ... Read More »

  Yeah, we were pretty sick of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise by the time it got around to launching its third installment in 2007. There’s only so many times you can hear Kira Knightly yell “fire!” Well, in order to lure us back into the swords-and-ships formula that made Disney a mountain of doubloons, Rob Marshall (who has ... Read More »

  If you track the life of Francisco Goya either by visiting Madrid yourself with our books in hand or just through the armchair tour offered in our forthcoming “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, you would be forgiven if walked away thinking that the most famous artist of his time rose to fame ... Read More »