Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor
Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor
September 14–November 30, 2018
A retrospective of a key artist of the Italian cinema, who combined the profound humanism of neorealism with the drama, beauty, and epic sweep of opera to create films rich in resonance and throbbing with life.
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The Leopard
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Ossessione
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Senso
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Rocco and His Brothers
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La terra trema
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Ludwig
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Bellissima
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1952Imported 35mm Print
Friday, September 14 7 PMView DetailsVisconti 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.
Ossessione
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1943Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee PickSunday, September 16 7 PMView DetailsWith 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.
La terra trema
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1948Digital Restoration
Friday, September 21 7 PMView DetailsFollowing 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).
White Nights
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1957Imported 35mm Print
Sunday, September 23 7 PMView DetailsMarcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1960Digital Restoration
Thursday, October 4 7 PMView DetailsThe lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1960Digital Restoration
Sunday, October 7 6:30 PMView DetailsThe lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1963Digital Restoration
Saturday, October 13 7 PMView DetailsAlain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, and Burt Lancaster (in one of his greatest performances) star in this tale of an aging Sicilian aristocrat who watches as his life—and lifestyle—fades into the past. “Even the most intimate scenes seethe with a sense of change” (Village Voice). “A mellow and melancholy feast” (New York Times).
Death in Venice
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, United States, 1971Saturday, October 20 7:45 PMView DetailsA 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.
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1963Digital Restoration
Sunday, October 21 7 PMView DetailsAlain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, and Burt Lancaster (in one of his greatest performances) star in this tale of an aging Sicilian aristocrat who watches as his life—and lifestyle—fades into the past. “Even the most intimate scenes seethe with a sense of change” (Village Voice). “A mellow and melancholy feast” (New York Times).
Sandra
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1965Digital Restoration
Sunday, October 28 7 PMView DetailsThis somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust.
Senso
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1954Digital Restoration
Thursday, November 1 7 PMView DetailsAn unhappily married Italian countess embarks on a doomed love affair with an Austrian officer in Visconti’s operatic, meticulously detailed tale of nationalism and destructive passion. “Visconti here moves his camera as if it were a conductor’s baton” (Artforum).
The Stranger
Luchino Visconti
Italy, Algeria, France, 1967Imported 35mm Print
Saturday, November 3 7:30 PMView DetailsA 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.
Senso
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1954Digital Restoration
Saturday, November 10 8 PMView DetailsAn unhappily married Italian countess embarks on a doomed love affair with an Austrian officer in Visconti’s operatic, meticulously detailed tale of nationalism and destructive passion. “Visconti here moves his camera as if it were a conductor’s baton” (Artforum).
Ludwig
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, West Germany, 1973Imported 35mm Print
Sunday, November 18 2 PMView DetailsVisconti gives the tragic life of the mad king of Bavaria an epic treatment, dazzling in its historical detail. “Ludwig is a passion play: a mass” (Film Comment). “An opulent, trance-like biopic” (Artforum).
Conversation Piece
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1974Imported 35mm Print
Sunday, November 25 7 PMView DetailsWhen 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.
The Innocent
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1976Imported 35mm Print
Friday, November 30 7 PMView DetailsGiancarlo 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” (New York Times).