Luchino Visconti Articles

Lamberto Maggiorani in Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (aka The Bicycle Thief) Suso Cecchi d’Amico, the only top female screenwriter in the post-war Italian cinema, died today in Rome. She had turned 96 on July 14. According to reports, no cause of death was given. Chiefly among Cecchi D’Amico’s screenwriting contributions — nearly 120 of them — are those for Vittorio de Sica’s Oscar-winning neo-realist [...]

Burt Lancaster in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (top); Marko Zaror in Ernesto Diaz Espinosa’s Mandrill (upper middle); Elsa Daniel in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s The Fall (lower middle); Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act (bottom) Luchino Visconti’s restored The Leopard, Ernesto Diaz Espinosa’s Mandrill, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s The Fall, and Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act are some of the highlights at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival [...]

Salma Hayek, an Academy Award nominee back in 2003 for Frida, attends the premiere of the restored Luchino Visconti classic The Leopard / Il gattopardo, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. The event was held at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual International Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2010, in the south of France. Both Delon and Cardinale were present. [...]

Martin Scorsese, Best Director Oscar winner for The Departed and ardent movie lover, attends the premiere of the restored Luchino Visconti classic The Leopard / Il gattopardo, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. The event was held at the Palais des Festivals during the 2010 International Cannes Film Festival on May 14. (Photo by Getty Images/WireImage) The Leopard (1963), which some consider Visconti’s [...]