Word: luchino
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Died. Count Luchino Visconti, 69, Italian aristocrat who became a movie director at the age of 30 and made an international reputation with a handful of meticulously wrought and highly atmospheric films; of a heart attack while suffering from influenza; in Rome. An early neorealist, along with Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni, Visconti used Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic...
...Great Prince. Currently, Giannini can also be cast down about work just completed (the starring role in the new Luchino Visconti film) and jobs offered, including several from Hollywood that tempt him because "my nature is to court glory or invite disaster...
...vita turned really dolce for Marisa in 1971, when Luchino Visconti signed her for her first film as the elegant young mother in Death in Venice. Bob Fosse then hired her to play the German-Jewish department store heiress in Cabaret. Both parts required Marisa to appear both remote and vulnerable. She is very good...
Directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI Screenplay by SUSO CECCHI D'AMICO, ENRICO MEDIOLO and LUCHINO VISCONTI...
...neurotic and slightly hysterical." It seems a most unlikely confession for Burt Lancaster to be making, but then there is nothing likely at all about Conversation Piece, Luchino Visconti's latest movie. Hearing Lancaster speak those lines early in the film and watching later as he ostensibly grows sick and faces death, there is the inescapable sense that the actor is speaking for, even standing in for, the film maker himself...