"Senso (1954) has long been the least seen of Luchino Visconti's masterworks, mainly because the original three-strip Technicolor negative has shrunk, making it impossible to render Visconti's painterly
"Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh's films, and not only because, as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain, he can hardly hope to avoid it," writes AO
"Astonishingly handsome," writes John Farr in the Huffington Post, Alain Delon, born on November 8, 1935, "was bound to portray romantic figures, but he also projected a sullen, enigmatic, slightly
Legendary screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico has died in Rome at the age of 96. More impressive than the sheer number of screenplays she'd written since 1946 — over 110 — is the lasting mark she's
"The great French critic André Bazin said of director Luchino Visconti that he filmed the Sicilian fishermen in La Terra Trema as if they were 'tragic princes.'" Sam Adams for the Los Angeles Times
Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni in Luchino Visconti's White Nights (1957).