The title is the giveaway to BBC docu "The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti," a broad-brush portrait of the aristo Italian director (1906-76) that is more a psychological and cultural picture ...

Italian director Luchino Visconti, who is being feted by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with a three-week tribute, created sumptuous worlds for his tragically flawed characters to inhabit. Most of ...

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Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor who became an international star through films by directors Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica and Massimo Dallamano, died today in his home city of Salzburg. He was ...

A new documentary tells the story of how early fame in the Italian director’s Death in Venice became a living nightmare for its teenage star Björn Andrésen Tadzio, played by 15-year-old Swede called ...

This is the sixth and concluding part of a series of articles on the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 22-May 6. Senso, the 1954 film directed by Luchino Visconti about the ...

The Austrian-born Berger was a mainstay of the European arthouse cinema of the 1960s and '70s, celebrated for his enigmatic performances in Luchino Visconti films. Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor ...

In “Death in Venice,” his eleventh film based on the novella by Thomas Mann, Visconti explores not only the themes of underlying sexuality found in the original text, but the significance of ambiguity ...

Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, best known for his breakout role as Tadzio in Italian director Luchino Visconti’s 1971 drama “Death in Venice,” has died. He was 70. Andrésen’s death was announced on ...

“To put your eyes on beauty is to put your eyes on death,” says film director Luchino Visconti in a new documentary from Sweden spotlighting the predatory nature of the celebrity machine. Directed by ...