Word: rocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardy little band of inspired pioneers: Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon); Sweden's Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries); France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour) and Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows); Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal) and Roman Polanski (Two Men and a Wardrobe); Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Summerskin); India's Satyajit Ray (Father Panchali...
...Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece...
...Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film-scenically beautiful, dramatically satisfying, philosophically profound-about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster. Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece...
...masterpiece, which is arguably the finest Italian novel of the century, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, treats of these matters with an irony that seems half wisdom and half love, and in a style as rich and dark and subtle as old Marsala. In this film, Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) preserves the author's tone as well as his tale, and in the course of three occasionally tedious hours develops a composite portrait of a time, a place and a man that finally emerges as a splendid set piece of cinema...
Although only one of his full-length features (Rocco and his Brothers) has circulated widely in this country, far-flung and knowing correspondents tout him as Europe's most meticulous director in any medium. Those of us who couldn't make it to Salerno this summer for the shooting of the Leopard are now bombarded by the glossy monthlies with awe-struck accounts of Visconti's baroque sense of light and composition or his deft flair for leading actors like Burt Lancaster into deep and exacting performances. On the evidence of Rocco and that turgid domestic squabble in Boccaccio...