The great French critic André Bazin said of director Luchino Visconti that he filmed the Sicilian fishermen in “La Terra Trema” as if they were “tragic princes.” In the 1963 epic “The ...

Visconti, who was born in 1906, said he came into the world “as the curtain was raised at La Scala,” and no film more fully realized his operatic impulses. In Senso , as the filmmaker Mark ...

The standard line on the career of Luchino Visconti is that he went from being one of the founding fathers of Italian neorealism to a master orchestrator of sumptuous historical melodramas. This ...

Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor who became an international star through films by directors Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica and Massimo Dallamano, died today in his home city of Salzburg. He ...

On the centenary of his birth, a book, whose authors also include his son Simone, tells the story of one of the great stars of the Italian economic boom ...

Filmmaker Luchino Visconti, left, instructs actors Helmut Berger and Romy Schneider during the making of the 1973 historical drama “Ludwig.” Mr. Berger played Ludwig II, the “Swan King” of ...

The title is the giveaway to BBC docu "The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti," a broad-brush portrait of the aristo Italian director (1906-76) that is more a psychological and cultural ...

Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of European arthouse cinema in the 1960s, has died at the age of 78. The ...

Italian actress Alida Valli, who starred in films by Alfred Hitchcock and Luchino Visconti, has died at the age of 84. She made her cinema debut at the age of 15 and appeared in over 100 films. They ...