Topic: Luchino Visconti

Beginners, Heartbeats, The Kids Are All Right, A Single Man, Milk: Most filmgoers have probably seen, or at least heard of, these films. That's ...

Five things to do this week: July 30-Aug. 5

1. Among new works by choreographers Karen Kaeja, Michael Caldwell, Lua Shayenne and others, expect to find moments that highlight why Dusk Dances...

DVD review: 'Senso'

0 View Larger Image . . . This is a remarkable DVD/Blu-ray release of a 1954 film that was unavailable for years and has never looked so good...

1950s screen idol Farley Granger dies at 85

Farley Granger, the American actor known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" and other films, has died at his Manhattan home. He was 85.Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office ...
that cultural wasteland in which you're forced to either accept Gwyneth Paltrow as a country music star, or plan a repeat visit to the Focker...
Luchino Visconti's 1948 movie La terra trema (The Earth Quakes ) can be read as a perfect model of neorealist films, as Marcus called it " The main character, Antonio, is a prototype of how the character can be related to the physical ...

Italian screenwriter Cecchi d'Amico dies at 96

Suso Cecchi d'Amico, the favourite screenwriter of director Luchino Visconti best known for her work on "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard", died in Rome aged 96, Italy's ANSA news agency reported Saturday.Born into an artistic family in 1914, the ...
John Galliano turned the runway into a lush garden for his exuberant couture show for Christian Dior on Monday, in tribute to the legendary French designer's love of flowers.His hothouse blooms were fittingly unveiled in a tent in the gardens ...

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On the banks of Lake Como, in the Lombardy region of Italy, rests the location of one of the most prestigious automobile events in the world, the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. the stunning Villa Erba, built in 1898 and the ...

Rome auctions off top cemetery lots

The price of dying is going up in Rome, if a city auction of prime cemetery lots is anything to go by.The most expensive burial ground in the city's prized Verano cemetery is on offer for 312,629 euros -- the ...