Visconti: A Retrospective
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Italian nobility, a member of the Italian Communist Party during World War II, openly gay and staunchly Catholic, Luchino Visconti inhabited a complicated, at times paradoxical, role in Italian cinema culture. A leader in the neorealismo movement who also worked with international stars like Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Alain Delon, and Dirk Bogarde, Visconti produced an oeuvre of modest and humane dramas as well as decadent, sprawling historical spectacles. Deftly aware of the subtle and rich means of cinematic expression, he uniquely imposed the narrative customs of opera and the novel onto film, yet remained sharply attuned to the social and political climates of the 20th century. This June, the Film Society is pleased to announce a complete retrospective of Viscontiās feature films, most of them premiering in new restorations and rare imported prints, followed by a weeklong run of a new 35mm print of his 1973 historical masterpiece Ludwig.
Organized by Florence Almozini and Dan Sullivan of Film Society of Lincoln Center, and by Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Istituto Luce CinecittĆ . Co-produced by Istituto Luce CinecittĆ , Rome. Presented in association with the Ministry of Culture of Italy.
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Additional Reading
How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing by A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
The Operatic and Ecstatic Truth of Luchino Visconti by Bilge Ebiri (Village Voice)
The Royal Treatment by Nick Pinkerton (Art Forum)
Ossessione
La Terra trema
Bellissima
Senso
White Nights
Rocco and His Brothers
The Leopard
Free screening! Ā· Post-Screening Reception
Visconti reached new heights of epic grandeur with his sweeping, Palme dāOr-winning account of political upheaval and generational sea change in Risorgimento-era Italy, starring Burt Lancaster as the leonine patriarch of a ruling class Bourbon family in the last gasps of its dominance.
Sandra
The Stranger
The Damned
Death in Venice
Ludwig
Conversation Piece
The Innocent
Visconti Shorts Program: 1953-67
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