Boccaccio '70 1962  N/R, 205 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Cast: Marisa Solinas, Germano Gilioli, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Philippo, Romy Schneider, Tomas Milian, Romolo Valli, Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Alfio Vita
Based on the style of Boccaccio's tales, four popular Italian directors present four tales celebrating womanhood–nudity and all. Some U.S. prints contain only three of the stories.
|  | |
Conversation Piece 1974  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsoni, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Patrizi, Elvira Cortese, Romolo Valli, Dominique Sanda, Guy Trejan
A down-and-out professor (Burt Lancaster) finds a renewed interest in life when a couple with a teenage daughter moves into the upstairs apartment. There is also an Italian-language version.
| | |
The Damned 1969  R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Albrecht Schoenhals, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan
The wealthy Von Essenbeck family meets its demise when the Nazis come into power at the rise of Hitler's Third Reich.
| | |
Death in Venice 1971  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Romolo Valli, Nora Ricci, Carole Andre, Leslie French, Franco Fabrizi, Sergio Garfagnoli, Luigi Battaglia
Aging German composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to the Venetian seashore for a rest. But rest doesn't come due to a young blond boy, Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), who is traveling with his family. Aschenbach obsesses over Tadzio because Tadzio represents youth and physical perfection. Aschenbach knows he can never attain that perfection and quietly dies on the beach. Adapted from the Thomas Mann novel.
| | |
Innocente 1976 R, 112 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: L'Innocente
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Didier Haudepin, Marie Dubois, Roberta Paladini, Claude Mann, Marc Porel, Elvira Cortese, Alessandra Vazzoler, Philippe Hersent, Sinia Betti, Enzo Musumeci Greco
The decadence of the aristocracy in late 19th-century Italy is the theme of this story about Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) who openly has a passionate affair with the widow, Countess Teresa (Jennifer O'Neill). But, it's a different thing altogether when he finds out that his young wife Giuliana (Laura Antonelli) is also having an affair with a novelist (Marc Porel). Now, Tullio's renewed interest in Giuliana suffers a setback when she gives birth to an illegitimate son.
| | |
La Terra Trema 1948 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Earth Trembles
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
This powerful documentary-style film portrays the plight of the poor fishermen of a Sicilian town who are exploited by the fish marketers. One man attempts to convince the villagers to fight back. This was to be the first of a series of films highlighting the plight of workers, but Visconti did not continue the series.
| | |
The Leopard 1963  N/R, 205 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Clementi, Terence Hill, Lucilla Morlacchi, Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Ottavia Piccolo
Based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, this is the story of Sicilian aristocrat Prince Don Fabrizio Salino (Burt Lancaster) and how he handles the changes in life brought on by the Garibaldi Revolution in the 1860s. Knowing that the class system is changing and that the aristocratic society is doomed, Salino reluctantly arranges the marriage of his nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) and Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant who has been appointed the town's mayor Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa). The highlight of this film, performed on a beautiful set, is the 40-minute scene at the grand ball.
| | |
Rocco and His Brothers 1960  N/R, 175 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair, Claudia Cardinale, Spiros Focas, Max Cartier, Alessandra Panaro, Corrado Pani, Claudia Mori, Adriana Asti
Hoping for a better life, widow Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves with her son Rocco (Alain Delon ) and his three brothers to Milano where the family joins a fifth son, Vincenzo (Spiros Focas). When a feud erupts between two of the brothers, each meets a tragic end.
| | |
Senso 1954 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Wanton Contessa
Livia
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand, Marcella Mariani, Massimo Girotti, Sergio Fantoni, Tino Bianchi, Tonio Selwart
Set in 1866 Venice during Italy's fight for independence, this story centers on the doomed relationship of the materialistic Austrian officer, Lt. Franz Mahler (Farley Granger), and his wealthy mistress, Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli). Like most of Visconti's films, this one is an excellent contrast of human emotions.
| | |
The Stranger 1967 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Bruno Cremer, Georges Wilson, Pierre Bertin, Georges Geret, Jean-Pierre Zola, Vittorio Duse, Jacques Herlin
Existentialist Meursault (Marcello Mastroianni) murders an Arab in cold blood for no reason other than that he feels he should. Meursault is a man who does not become involved in others' lives, and takes responsibility only for his own actions in this world. He believes that life has no meaning other than being true to oneself. This excellent film examines the consequences of such a philosophy.
| | |
White Nights 1957 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai, Romano Barbieri, Alberto Carloni, Renato Terra, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli
In this drama based on a Dostoyevsky story, Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a shy man who is in love with Natalia (Maria Schell). However, she awaits the return of her lover.
| | |
| 1. Boccaccio '70 (1962)
2. Conversation Piece (1974)
3. The Damned (1969)
4. Death in Venice (1971)
5. Innocente (1976)
aka: L'Innocente
6. La Terra Trema (1948)
aka: The Earth Trembles
7. The Leopard (1963)
8. Ossessione (1942)
9. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
10. Senso (1954)
aka: The Wanton Contessa
aka: Livia
11. The Stranger (1967)
12. White Nights (1957)
In The News
|
