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See http://www.showroom.org.uk for film times
Links:
- BFI Resources - Comprehensive and impressive set of materials and links to many perspectives on Visconti's work. Includes detailed sections on The Leopard and Death in Venice, plus biographies of Visconti and his main stars (in case you ever wondered what happened to Björn Andresen from Death in Venice, the story is indeed curious). I recommend you start here, and I have not reproduced links to all their resources on their pages. The 'related sites' page, however, is a rather cursory effort, so this page complements it with more detailed references.
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- Death in Venice - the book - Short feature on Thomas Mann's book Death in Venice, on which the film was based - includes several stills from the film.
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- Death in Venice - the hatchet job! - David Thomson in the Independent berates the film as the worst 'great' film ever made - a 'sad queen's weepie' - and accuses Visconti of 'ostentatious inwardness' and of lacking a sense of form.
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- Ossessione - Review 1 - Synopsis and review of this film as part of a site that is particularly interested in Visconti's early work as part of the Italian neo-realist movement in the 1940s. There is a link from this page to a biography that concentrates on this part of Visconti's career.
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- Ossessione - Review 2 - Review from kamera.co.uk that stresses the influence of Jean Renoir as well as the neo-realist connection.
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- The Decadent Realist - Recent Guardian feature by David Thomson reviewing Visconti's career in light of the BFI season (which included a broader range of his films than those showing at the Showroom). The article hints that Visconti's Marxism is only skin-deep, at least as far as his work goes.
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- The Leopard - historical context and chronology - A brief primer about the 'Risorgimento' (resurrrection/reunification) of Italy that forms the backdrop to The Leopard, as well as to Visconti's earlier film, Senso. See also http://www.pirandello.com/risorg.html. Useful if your knowledge of C19th Italian history is a bit rusty.
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- The Leopard - Review - Derek Malcolm's Guardian feature that situates the film in the context of Visconti's career and thought, and of how it has been received over the years.
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