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The Complete Woody Allen: A Retrospective Pt. 2 (1992-2011)

It’s generally seen that the last 20 years have been something of a downswing for Allen: most, if not all, of his worst films have come from this period. But there’s plenty of gems below as well, including films that didn’t necessarily get the love they deserved at the time. In the meantime, “Midnight in Paris” is one of the director’s best films in a while (read our Cannes review here ), and we hope that his next film, a Rome-set comedy with ” is an ambitious entry in the director’s catalog. Here, Allen takes the starring role in this Kafka-esque comedy of misunderstandings as an especially sniveling and cowardly bookkeeper who is innocently caught up in a vigilante group that is searching for a local serial killer who has thus far eluded the police (major hat tip to Fritz Lang ‘s “ M ”), in an unnamed European city in the 1920s. A second story, which eventually meets up with the first, revolves around a circus clown ( —against whom a mock-irate Allen subsequently railed for getting more laughs than he does, despite the fact he’d written the material to make him look like the funny one. Actually, they’re both on top form, and the portrait of a long-term marriage that finds much-needed spice when a neighbour dies (finally turning to the murder sub-plot famously excised from “ Lush with the sensation of romance in exotic places, Allen’s modern-day musical (scored with lip-synched 1930s standards) occupies a curious place in his ouerve, capturing a family of East Side New Yorkers in transition in the midst of Giuliani-era Manhattan. Romance has got them tangled, from young engagements to old flames flickering once again, all the while Allen purposely drains the image in a sea of brownstones and Central Park foliage, at once nostalgic and cynical. Allen’s eye for actors remains lively and generous, leading to a number of standout performances, though the film falters with Allen himself, who plays a single man who absconds to Venice to meet the girl of his dreams. As with many latter-day Allen pictures, the age discrepancy is glaringly unaddressed, compounded by ” is also, with distance, one of his strongest. Allen plays Harry Block, a tortured writer who is undergoing a breakdown in his twilight years, as fantasy and reality begin to merge.

Venice apartments | Travel guide for Venice

Renting an apartment in Venice is a great way to live at one's own pace in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Let alone the chance to live the Venetians' life, and feeling independent: a traveller, and a resident at the same time. A special experience, a choice which tells the difference between a tourist and a world explorer: no matter how short. VeniceDream Travel agency is specialised in charming apartments in Venice, and is now starting to offer its service also online. Take some minute to visit their website and you'll find some examples of beautiful, quiet, and well furnished apts; they can be rented for a minimum of 3 nights and a maximum of 6 months. Normally, no dogs and no smokers are admitted - the owners say.

See below some of the listed apartments.

********** Yellow Orchid (apt 10) *********

Luxury apartment, nicely furnished, typical Venetian style, comfortable and elegant flat is available in a quiet area of Venice. Giudecca island is the most truly Venetian area of the city: not touristy yet close to trendy and fashionable locations. Ten minutes by waterbus and you'll be right in St.Mark's Square, without suffering from the tourists' crowd. The island preserved herself against the mass flow of tourists and is now a location often chosen by non residents as their second home.

Elegant apartment in the famous and exclusive residential complex "Molino Stucky", situated in Giudecca island in Venice, where from it has little been constructed the splendid Hilton hotel which offer to the customers of our apartments special prices on some services like restaurant, bar or beauty center. The apartments are equip you of equipped kitchen, tv set, conditioned air and adjustable heating. Bath with bathtub and shower, hair dryer. One double bed room and a living-room with two comfortable and regular beds. In order to catch up the center of Venice with the boat two stopped are sufficient.

The Spectator

Venice & North-East Italy

Harvard magazine

Tropic of Venice

The bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art