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(0)Luchino Visconti
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Luchino Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions - her lover, her daughter and the daugther's boyfriend - he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
In 1971 at the world premiere of Death in Venice in London, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed Björn Andrésen, the teen star of his latest film, "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD." This is the story of a boy who was thrust to international stardom for his iconic looks and lived a life of glamour. 50 years later, Björn looks back.
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Language
Italiano
Description
After the reunification of Italy, an aging Sicilian prince sees his influence slipping away, the growth of national movements and his nephew's attempts to take power.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...
5) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edizione ; DVD edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.
6) The damned
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most savagely subversive film by Luchino Visconti portrays Nazism's total corruption of the soul through the decaying opulence of one family's downfall that comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
One of Italy's most acclaimed directors of all time, Luchino Visconti began his career as one of the leading purveyors of neorealist cinema. This four film collection includes two of Visconti s greatest films from his early neorealist period, La Terra Trema (1948) and Bellissima (1951),along with two of his most celebrated epics from his later career, Ludwig(1972) and L innocente (1976). Bonus Features: Luchino Visconti Life as in a Romance Documentary...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Italiano
Description
"The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world."--Container.
10) L'innocente
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
After becoming bored with his timid wife, a wealthy aristocrat begins an exciting affair. Upon learning that his wife is having a torrid affair of her own, he is tormented by her infidelity and descends into madness, commiting a cruel and horrifying act.
11) Senso
Series
Criterion collection volume 556
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
DVD edizione, special edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a nineteenth century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant.
12) Ludwig
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
An operatic portrait of Ludwig II, the 19th century mad king of Bavaria. Tormented by his unrequited love for his cousin, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, coupled with his obsession for the music of Wagner, Ludwig retreats into a fantasy world. He builds fairytale castles and ultimately loses his already-fragile grip on his sanity.
13) Witches
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple : each filmmaker would create an episode centered on a witch, to be played in all episodes by Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig). Luchino Visconti (Ossesione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (Bicycle Thieves) open the film with the Witch Burned Alive, about a famous...
Series
Criterion collection volume 296
Pub. Date
©2005, ©1957.
Language
Italiano
Description
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely man and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
15) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
16) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
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