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Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]
Debut director Luchino Visconti’s 1943 Italian crime thriller film Ossessione marks the second time James M Cain’s irresistible plot rang at cinema box offices. Visconti failed to get rights to the novel and the film […]
One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]
Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1972 romantic historical film Ludwig is a gorgeous, extravagant, stirring toast to the mad 19th-century Bavarian king Ludwig II and to the handsome and magnetic star Helmut Berger. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s masterly […]
Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 historical drama film The Damned [La caduta degli dei] stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger in his breakthrough role. Director Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 saga of […]
The magnificent 1960 Italian classic film Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti, with electrifying performances from Alain Delon as Rocco and Renato Salvatori as his […]
Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]