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Luchino Visconti di Modrone is one of the few film directors who also had the distinction of calling himself a genuine aristocrat. Born in 1906 to a noble family in northern Italy, his well-bred background and international art education only seemed to enable his subversive tendencies. Visconti was both a Marxist and openly homosexual at a time when both could mean suffering terrible public consequences – but he also mourned the demise of his old social strata, and thought of himself as a staunch Catholic.
The director occupied a paradoxical position in Italian film culture, and his films vary from salt-of-the-earth tales of workers and fishermen to explorations of opulent nobility in various stages of torment and decay. The precise décor of his palaces, gardens and sitting rooms are inextricable parts of his historical films; a 19th-century Sicilian villa was entirely restored for 1963’s The Leopard. Visconti was said to work at a level of obsessive detail, often reconstructed from his own childhood memories.
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Bellissima
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Italy, 1952Imported 35mm Print
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Ossessione
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1943Digital Restoration
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La terra trema
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1948Digital Restoration
Friday, Sep 21 7 PM
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White Nights
Luchino Visconti
Italy, France, 1957Imported 35mm Print
Sunday, September 23 7 PM
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Luchino Visconti
Italian theatre, opera and cinema director
For other uses, see Luchino Visconti (disambiguation).
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (Italian:[luˈkiːnoviˈskontidimoˈdroːne]; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism, but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that “no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.”[1]
Born into a Milanesenoble family with close ties to the artistic world, Visconti began his career in France as an assistant director to Jean Renoir. His 1943 directorial debut, Ossessione, was condemned by the Fascist regime for its unvarnished depictions of working-class characters, but is today renowned as a pioneering work of Italian cinema, generally regarded as the first neorealist film. During World War II, he served in the anti-fascist resistance, and afterwards was active in left-wing politics.
Visconti’s best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard[2] (1963), which are historical me