he Milanese filmmaker Luchino Visconti was both a Marxist and an aristocrat. He found squalor amid opulence and beauty in decay, and is perhaps best known today for directing Death in Venice – a ...

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She was also close to Italian director Luchino Visconti, who is said to have invited her to his villa at Lake Como, at a spot not far from Villa d’Este.

Yet, in The Return, this restorative union is replaced with a melancholy anti-war parable in which Odysseus, it’s implied, chooses to stay away out of fear his wife won’t love the man he ...

While Luchino Visconti’s lush 1963 film adaptation centered on the head of the family, the patriarchal Prince, and his nephew Tancredi, Shankland’s six-episode saga reframes the story with a ...

The Leopard, the classic novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and published in 1958, was recently adapted by Netflix as a miniseries, 62 years after Luchino Visconti’s famous adaptation ...

Unaccountably, it is passed up by Netflix, and indeed Visconti in his version. In the novel’s coda, long after Don Fabrizio’s death, his daughters retire to the palace, an “inferno of mummified ...

Costume designer Carlo Poggioli also felt the pressure of living up to the Visconti film, especially when it came to comparisons with the work of his mentor Piero Tosi, who did the costumes for ...

Visconti's opulent film held the same searingly cynical and yet elegiac view on the upper echelons of Italian society, according to Arabella Cifani, books editor of the Giornale dell'Arte.

Six decades on from Luchino Visconti’s epic interpretation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s historical saga, The Leopard returns in the form of a six-part Netflix series.

The book was adapted into a 1963 Luchino Visconti film, widely considered one of the best movies in cinematic history. Now it has been adapted again into a six-part mini-series.