Luchino Visconti
8/5/04 to 8/29/04
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The Leopard|August 14, 19|
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Films - Past
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Past Films
La Terra Trema
Thursday, August 5 7:30pmFollowing the struggles of impoverished Sicilian fisherfolk, Visconti "makes compositions of the most down-to-earth reality as if they were scenes from an opera or a classical tragedy."-André Bazin. Repeated on Sunday, August 8.View DetailsRocco and His Brothers
Friday, August 6 7:30pmThe experiences of a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society in this Visconti masterwork starring Alain Delon. "With the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel, Rocco and His Brothers represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neo-realism."-NY TimesView DetailsDays of Glory
Saturday, August 7 5:30pmSpecial Added Screening! Rarely seen outside of Italy, this extremely important work was the first documentary on the German occupation of Rome, and depicts various key episodes in the work of the Italian Resistance from September 1943 until the liberation of the North in the spring of 1945.View DetailsBellissima
Saturday, August 7 7:00pmVisconti is in an unusually comic mode for this satire on urban life and movieland ambition. The incomparable Anna Magnani plays a mother trying to launch her young daughter in show business. Repeated on Thursday, August 12.View DetailsSenso
Saturday, August 7 9:15pmFarley Granger and Alida Valli in an operatic, meticulously detailed, "densely layered story set in the Garibaldi period of Italian nationalism, as much about the bitter lessons of history (idealism yielding to the status quo) as it is about erotic passion."-NY Times. Repeated on Thursday, August 12.View DetailsDays of Glory
Sunday, August 8 4:00pmSpecial Added Screening! Rarely seen outside of Italy, this extremely important work was the first documentary on the German occupation of Rome, and depicts various key episodes in the work of the Italian Resistance from September 1943 until the liberation of the North in the spring of 1945.View DetailsLa Terra Trema
Sunday, August 8 5:30pmFollowing the struggles of impoverished Sicilian fisherfolk, Visconti "makes compositions of the most down-to-earth reality as if they were scenes from an opera or a classical tragedy."-André BazinView DetailsSenso
Thursday, August 12 7:00pmFarley Granger and Alida Valli in an operatic, meticulously detailed, "densely layered story set in the Garibaldi period of Italian nationalism, as much about the bitter lessons of history (idealism yielding to the status quo) as it is about erotic passion."-NY Times.View DetailsBellissima
Thursday, August 12 9:20pmVisconti is in an unusually comic mode for this satire on urban life and movieland ambition. The incomparable Anna Magnani plays a mother trying to launch her young daughter in show business.View DetailsOssessione
Friday, August 13 7:00pmWith a deft mixture of authenticity, narrative suspense, and ambiguous passions, Visconti transposes James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice to a Po Valley trattoria. Repeated on Sunday, August 15.View DetailsThe Witch Burned Alive
Friday, August 13 9:35pmVisconti's contribution to the omnibus film The Witches, showcasing Silvana Mangano, is a biting fable on the perils of celebrity. With Anna Magnani, a portrait of the actress. Repeated on Sunday, August 15.View DetailsThe Leopard
Saturday, August 14 7:00pm"Anchored by Burt Lancaster's wonderful performance as a Sicilian nobleman who witnesses philosophically the transfer of power from his own aristocratic class to a grasping set of opportunistic parvenus, The Leopard is a mellow and melancholy feast."-NY Times. With Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale. Repeated on Thursday, August 19.View DetailsThe Job
Sunday, August 15 4:15pmSpecial Added Screening! Visconti's episode from the legendary anthology film Boccaccio '70 stars Romy Schneider as a contessa who decides to charge her wayward husband a fee for her marital services.View DetailsThe Witch Burned Alive
Sunday, August 15 5:30pmVisconti's contribution to the omnibus film The Witches, showcasing Silvana Mangano, is a biting fable on the perils of celebrity. With Anna Magnani, a portrait of the actress.View DetailsOssessione
Sunday, August 15 7:00pmWith a deft mixture of authenticity, narrative suspense, and ambiguous passions, Visconti transposes James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice to a Po Valley trattoria.View DetailsThe Leopard
Thursday, August 19 7:00pm"Anchored by Burt Lancaster's wonderful performance as a Sicilian nobleman who witnesses philosophically the transfer of power from his own aristocratic class to a grasping set of opportunistic parvenus, The Leopard is a mellow and melancholy feast."-NY Times. With Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale.View DetailsWhite Nights
Friday, August 20 7:00pmMastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths. Repeated on Sunday, August 22.View DetailsThe Stranger
Friday, August 20 9:10pmA rare opportunity to see this adaptation of the great existentialist novel, with Marcello Mastroianni as Camus's archetype of alienation. Visconti vividly re-creates 1930s colonial Algiers. Repeated on Sunday, August 22.View DetailsVaghe stelle dell'orsa
Saturday, August 21 7:00pmAlso known as Sandra, this somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust. Repeated on Thursday, August 26.View DetailsConversation Piece
Saturday, August 21 9:05pmWhen aging professor Burt Lancaster rents the upper flat of his palazzo to a Roman matron and her gigolo, his life's denouement is invaded by la dolce vita. Repeated on Thursday, August 26.View DetailsWhite Nights
Sunday, August 22 5:30pmMastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.View DetailsThe Stranger
Sunday, August 22 7:35pmA rare opportunity to see this adaptation of the great existentialist novel, with Marcello Mastroianni as Camus's archetype of alienation. Visconti vividly re-creates 1930s colonial Algiers.View DetailsConversation Piece
Thursday, August 26 7:00pmWhen aging professor Burt Lancaster rents the upper flat of his palazzo to a Roman matron and her gigolo, his life's denouement is invaded by la dolce vita.View DetailsVaghe stelle dell'orsa
Thursday, August 26 9:20pmAlso known as Sandra, this somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust.View DetailsDeath in Venice
Friday, August 27 7:00pmA ravishing elegy to the mortality of all things: buildings, cities, art, and desire. Dirk Bogarde plays the hero of Thomas Mann's novella, a man enthralled by a young boy's beauty in a Venice consumed by disease.View DetailsThe Innocent
Friday, August 27 9:30pmGiancarlo Giannini in Visconti's final work, a sumptuous, sensuous adaptation of the d'Annunzio novel. "One of Visconti's most beautiful films [and] one of his most terse, most dramatically economical."-NY Times. Repeated on Saturday, August 28.View DetailsThe Innocent
Saturday, August 28 5pmGiancarlo Giannini in Visconti's final work, a sumptuous, sensuous adaptation of the d'Annunzio novel. "One of Visconti's most beautiful films [and] one of his most terse, most dramatically economical."-NY Times.View DetailsThe Damned
Saturday, August 28 7:30pmVisconti pulls out all the stops in this sensational portrait of decadence in 1930s Germany, where the fates of an industrialist family parallel the Nazis' rise to power. With Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, and Helmut Berger as a Dietrich impersonator.View DetailsLudwig II: Free Screening!
Sunday, August 29 5:30pmFree tickets available at the PFA Theater starting at 4:30. Visconti gives the tragic life of the mad king of Bavaria an epic treatment, dazzling in its historical detail. "In Helmut Berger's Ludwig, Visconti's echt aestheticism finds its last champion, its Tristan, and also its supreme sacrificial victim, its Christ. Ludwig is a passion play: a mass."-Film CommentView Details
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