Luchino Visconti

...beautiful region in northern Venezuela. It's an attempt at a semidocumentary tone poem in the style of Robert J. Flaherty and Luchino Visconti, shot (by Giuseppe Nisoli) with a kind of Bunuelian austerity, and much of it is breathtaking...

In this article: Araya, Margot Benacerraf, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Pierre Seghers, Steven Soderbergh, Barbara Kopple, Robert J. Flaherty, and Venezuela

...partner, Pierre Berge decorated to resemble something inspired by a mixture of Proust's novel, 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' and a Luchino Visconti film set. Even the rooms were named after characters in Proust's novel - Charles Swann, Baron...

In this article: Sotheby's, Marcel Proust, Yves Saint Laurent, London, Emperor Qianlong, and Pierre Berge

...novelist; Jeanne Moreau is his bored and wealthy wife. </p><p>•<strong>“Death in Venice” </strong>(Oct. 13): Luchino Visconti adapts Thomas Mann&rsquo;s novella about a lonely composer (Dirk Bogarde) who on a vacation to...

In this article: Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, UMKC, Headless Horseman, Avon lady, Ichabod Crane, and Yves Montand

...edition begins with a weeklong run of John Cassavetes's "A Woman Under the Influence," from 1975, and also includes such rarities as Luchino Visconti's melodrama "Senso," Frank Capra's "Forbidden," and "Nanook of the North. " (212-708-9480.)

In this article: Individualism, John Singleton Copley, Frederic Remington, Paul Revere, Senso, Jack Kerouac, Jim Norton, and John Cassavetes

The Leopard () is an award-winning 1963 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel of the same name . The film features an international cast including the American Burt Lancaster, the...

In this article: The Leopard, Burt Lancaster, Nikolai Cherkasov, Hollywood, DVD, The Criterion Collection, Giuseppe Rotunno, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Terence Hill

...Kurosawa" has other filmmakers like Vittorio De Sica, Kenji Mizoguchi, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sam Pekinpah, Luchino Visconti, Nagisa Oshima, Sidney Lumet, Segio Leone, Francois Truffaut, Cecil DeMille, Milos Forman,...

In this article: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, Akira Kurosawa, Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Yasujiro Ozu

...curtain designs by Pablo Picasso - costumes by Coco Chanel, naturellement. Director Zhang Huan Since then Salvador Dali, Luchino Visconti, Henry Moore, David Hockney and Werner Herzog have engaged with opera, but as the cult of the...

In this article: Semele, Christophe Rousset, Lulu, and Gotterdammerung

...fled the country. 'The world has to change in order to stay the same,' says Prince Don Fabrizio Salina, played by Burt Lancaster in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard. I know what he means. Britain's revival will require a tough reform...

In this article: Peter Mandelson, George Osborne, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Progressives, Communism, Localism, and Conservative and Unionist Party

...of Helmut Berger in The Damned is frequently dismissed by cineasts as the overindulgence of his real-life lover, director Luchino Visconti. When your sugar daddy casts you in your first major film role as a cross-dressing, Nazi-collaborating...

In this article: Helmut Berger, The Emigrants, Academy Awards, The Damned, Max von Sydow, Tom Hanks, and Rutger Hauer

...to read everyone's true face, the visual approach is the right one, subtly executed. Italy got to the Cain novel first, in Luchino Visconti's gritty, dusty, neorealistic "Ossessione" (1942). Then came Lana Turner and John Garfield in the...

In this article: Nina Hoss, Benno Furmann, James M. Cain, Cinema Guild, Ossessione, and The Postman Always Rings Twice