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...VISCONTI HOURS Edited by Millard Meiss and Edith Kirsch. 262 pages. Braziller. $35. This facsimile reproduction of the Visconti Book of Hours was originally commissioned sometime before 1385 by the puissant Count, later Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzo Visconti. The first part ended with Giangaleazzo's death in 1402. Some ten years later the book was resumed when his son became duke. For one reason or another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more...
Garden of Finzi-Continis--Overrated. A very heavy and sentimental Vittorio De Sica flick about the round-up of Jews in Fascist Italy. Features the most ineiegant rich clan since Visconti's The Damned. CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...
...Leopard, directed by Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. Mather House dining hall, 8, 10, March...
...Hollywood mentality. Where the movies once had to turn to towns like Sodom and Gomorrah for titillating and moralistic examples of vice unfettered, they now need go no further than the early days of the Third Reich. Movies as different as Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools. Lucino Visconti's The Damned. Hal Prince's Something for Everyone and Bertolluci's The Conformist have begun to pick and prod the corpses of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in search of moral parallels to our own, none-too-healthy times. (And, though it's true Visconti and Bertolluci can hardly...
...Visconti's SENSO, Thursday, March 23 at 8 p.m., Mather House Dining Hall...