“Everything is cinema”: this quote is attributed to the French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard. If one deals with the work of Jean-Luc Godard, one is …
Alec Guinness: The Actor of a Thousand Faces
Alec Guinness and Grace Kelly had a special kind of tradition: after the two had played side by side in The Swan (1956), a curious …
David Niven: From Officer to Gentleman
What would twentieth-century Hollywood cinema be without the portrayal of the typical British gentleman? David Niven filled this role perfectly in the course of his …
Port wine: Complex sweetness
Although the grapes used to make port wine come from the interior of Portugal, port wine derives its name from the coastal city of Porto …
Lorne Greene: Father of the Nation
His embodiment of Ben Cartwright in the cult Western series Bonanza (1959-1973) not only made him a well-known actor: he was one of the few …
Rioja: The epitome of Spanish wine
Hardly any wine-growing region is associated with Spanish viticulture as much as Rioja: the approx. 60,000-hectare northern Spanish wine-growing region is known worldwide primarily for …
Grappa: Once a farmer’s brandy, today a noble distillate
Wine production in Italy used to be in the hands of the landowners: the farmers had to deliver the grapes for the wine – the …
Robin Williams: Ahead of his time
He attended the Juilliard School together with Christopher Reeve: Robin Williams became known to a wide audience primarily as a comedian. Without question, however, he …
The History of Vinyl: It sizzles like a fire
It is much easier to make files available on a computer than to produce a vinyl record: There was a time when the vinyl record …