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BELLISSIMA
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Anna Magnani gives an explosive performance as a simple working-class woman who earns extra money as a "nurse," giving cut-rate injections to local hypochondriacs. She enters her daughter in a Cinecitta talent competition which seems to offer a chance to solve all of her problems. Ambition becomes obsession, and obsession becomes tragedy, as the mother is conned and the daughter exploited. "A powerful, lyrical neorealist classic" (Leonard Maltin). In Italian with English subtitles.
Luchino Visconti---Italy---1951---111 mins.
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BOCCACCIO '70
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Boasting an unbelievable confluence of talent on both sides of the camera, this omnibus collection features contributions by some of the biggest names in Italian cinema. Each of the directors attempts to tell a story that Boccaccio might write if he was alive in the modern era. The Temptation of Doctor Antonio (Federico Fellini) stars Anita Ekberg in the dreamy, humorous tale of a billboard starlet who springs to life in front of an amorous professor. The Job (Luchino Visconti) stars Romy Schneider as a young office worke r in love with her boss (Tomas Milian) in a witty tale about marriage and infidelity. The Raffle (Vittorio De Sica) stars Sophia Loren as a woman who opens up a can of worms when she offers herself up as first prize in a shooting gallery. Finally, Renzo & Luciana (Mario Monicelli), is included for the first time after having been cut for the original release. In Federico Fellini/Vittorio De Sica/Luchino Visconti/Mario Monicelli---Italy---1962---208 mins.
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CONVERSATION PIECE (GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO)
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In Visconti's second to last film, Burt Lancaster plays a reclusive professor whose life is shattered when a beautiful Countess and her teenage daughter appear at his Roman palazzo. "A 1940s Hollywood screwball comedy in which an egghead learns to let his hair down, and is nothing short of ludicrous" (Faber).
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DAMNED
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A gigantic allegory of the rise of Nazism through the decadent Krupp-like family, who wallow in their opulent decay while their factories produce armaments for the Nazis; a baroque film which explores the dark cycles of violence and evil in human history and consciousness with erotic indulgence. With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling. In Luchino Visconti---Italy/Germany---1969---146 mins.
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DEATH IN VENICE
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Visconti's adaptation of the classic Thomas Mann novella was a tremendous triumph; Dirk Bogarde plays the aging artist who, in Venice, becomes obsessed with the ideal beauty of a young boy. With stunning cinematography and Visconti's elegant, operatic touch. In Italian with English subtitles. Luchino Visconti---Italy---1971---130 mins.
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INNOCENT/ L'INNOCENTE
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L'Innocente is an elegant, visually stunning exploration of the constraints of marriage and its disintegration. Featuring a sensuous performance by Laura Antonelli, and an equally strong turn by Giancarlo Giannini. "The Innocent is one of Visconti's most beautiful films" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times). In Italian with English subtitles. Luchino Visconti---Italy---1976---125 mins.
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LA TERRA TREMA
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Visconti's epic saga of Sicilian fishermen remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily, with the non-actors speaking their own dialect, and hailed as a revelation at the Venice Film Festival, it is a film with "a powerful sense of realism and sense of lyrical grandeur, almost a kind of operatic cinema verite" (Georges Sadoul).
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LE NOTTI BIANCHE/ WHITE NIGHTS
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Mario, a shy young man, meets a mysterious girl, Natalie, weeping as she stands on a canal bridge. She tells him that she loves a sailor who left on a long journey and promised to return in one year; a year has passed and he still hasn't arrived. Gradually, Mario falls in love with the girl and struggles to persuade her that the sailor will never return. Just when he seems to have convinced her, the man from her past does in fact appear. Based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell and Jean Marais. In Italian with English subtitles. Luchino Visconti---Italy---1957---107 mins.
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LEOPARD (VISCONTI)
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Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in what many consider Luchino Visconti's greatest film. Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the epic story follows Prince Fabrizio Salina (Lancaster) and his family as their prominent place in the aristocracy is threatened during the unification of Italy. This visually opulent masterpiece was first widely released in a poorly dubbed and edited, 165-minute version, printed in an inferior color process. This is a restored, Italian version, with its magnificent color intact, although it is still 25 minutes shorter than the version that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. "...one of the grandest widescreen historical epics...Visconti ends his film with a stunning ball scene, in which all his visual powers, his philosophical doubts and ruminations are in evidence" (Derek Malcolm, The Guardian). In Italian with English Luchino Visconti---Italy/France---1963---180 mins.
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LUCHINO VISCONTI: PORTRAIT
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Burt Lancaster, Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Zeffirelli and others share their memories of working with the great Italian director of Rocco and His Brothers, Ossessione, Death in Venice, The Leopard, The Damned and other classics. The film surveys Visconti's career and examines how his background influenced the movies he made. In English and Italian with English subtitles. Carlo Lizzani---Italy---1998---61 mins.
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LUDWIG
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Luchino Visconti's legendary epic of (mad) King Ludwig of Bavaria. Visconti focuses on Ludwig's fears and fantasies and his relationship with composer Richard Wagner to create a portrait of a "homosexual recluse whose passions are opera, fairy-tale castles, and exquisite young men. Nothing is more sumptuous than Helmut Berger's performance in the lead, the brooding mad scenes, the deliberately contrived hysterical outbursts" (Tony Rayns). With Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard and Silvana Mangano. This version is longer than the original American theatrical release version by roughly 50 minutes. In Luchino Visconti---France/Italy/Germany---1972---237 mins.
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SENSO (CRITERION)
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One of Visconti's greatest films, Senso is a luscious, operatic portrait of a decadent and corrupt aristocracy, starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger.
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WITCHES, THE (1967)
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"One of the most obscure films we've featured, which is ironic since the film has one of the most influential movie icons in its cast and boasts the talents of three world-renowned directors. The film in question is The Witches, an Italian hodgepodge designed to rejuvenate the career of a waning star. That star was Silvana Mangano...Luchino Visconti directed the first segment, "The Witch Burnt Alive." Mangano plays a famous actress who arrives at a swank mountain resort, followed by a ravenous pack of paparazzi..."Community Spirit" finds Mangano as a motorist who offers to take a man injured in a car accident to the hospital...Next comes "Earth Seen From the Moon," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A lonely widower (the sublime Italian comic actor Toto) searches the countryside to find a woman who will become his wife...The whimsy of the Pasolini segment is abruptly followed by the fury of "The Sicilian" directed by Franco Rossi...The final segment comes from Vittorio De Sica. "A Night like Any Other" finds Mangano as the easily bored wife of a workaholic banker. She escapes into elaborate daydreams fashioned on the pop art style that was the vogue in the mid-1960s...The banker is played by, of all people, Clint Eastwood" (Phil Hall, Film Threat). In Italian with English subtitles.
Mauro Bolognini/Vittorio De Sica/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Franco Rossi/Luchino Visconti---Italy---1967---100 mins.
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