Luchino Visconti, Count of Modrone, who passed away fifty years ago on March 17 at the age of 70, was a major theater and opera director and one of the leading filmmakers of post-war European cinema.
For the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Ciné-histoire is dedicating four masterpieces to him. The first program brings together Il Gattopardo (1963), about the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy during the Risorgimento, and Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974), a confrontation between an aging aristocrat and a provocative younger generation. The second double feature presents La caduta degli dei (1969), a tragedy on the rise of Nazism, and Morte a Venezia (1971), Thomas Mann’s adaptation about an obsession with beauty in a Venice struck by cholera.
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Sunday, March 8th, 2pm
by Luchino Visconti, with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon Italy-France / 1963 / 205 min. / Italian with English subtitles (10-minute introduction before the film by Dr. Frédéric Charbonneau) |
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Sunday, March 8th, 6:15pm by Luchino Visconti, with Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger Italy / 1974 / 122 min. / Italian with English subtitles |
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Sunday, March 29th, 3pm
by Luchino Visconti, with Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem Italy-Germany / 1969 / 167 min. / Italian with French subtitles (10-minute introduction before the film by Dr. Frédéric Charbonneau) |
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Sunday, March 29th, 6:45pm
by Luchino Visconti, with Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem Italy-France / 1971 / 130 min. / Italian with French subtitles |