The Leopard Articles

Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, The Leopard Burt Lancaster is Turner Classic Movies' "Summer Under the Stars" featured star today, August 25. TCM is presenting 11 Burt Lancaster movies, including two premieres: The Leopard and Scorpio. [Burt Lancaster Movie Schedule.] A powerful but hammy leading man who developed into a first-rate mature actor-star in movies such as Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece and Louis Malle's [...]

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 [...]

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, one of the greatest Bollywood stars, attends the premiere of Luchino Visconti's restored classic The Leopard / Il gattopardo, a period drama starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. The screening was held at the Palais des Festivals during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on May 14. (Photo by Getty Images.) In addition to Lancaster, Delon, and Cardinale, The Leopard (1963) [...]