Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Don't be fooled by a title. If you already own the Bailey On... DVD which was released back in 2006, you'll effectively already own the forthcoming David Bailey On Warhol, which lands on 18th January 2010. If you don't own...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
After eight years photographing the dark underbelly of Naples Johnnie Shand Kydd explains why he thinks it is Europe's most radical city.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Film, Fashion and Fame: Directors, costumers have paired up for fashion -- Italian cinema has never lacked for style, especially with directors like Federico Fellini and the mastery of costume design savants like Piero Gherardi.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
After auctioning a highly valuable art collection amassed over half a century, Pierre Berge, partner of late pantsuit pioneer Yves Saint Laurent, is putting everyday pieces up for sale this week.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
"Araya," a restored version of Margot Benacerraf's 1959 documentary, depicts a day in the life of salt workers and fishermen on the Araya peninsula, an isolated and starkly beautiful region in northern Venezuela.
Eating In Translation (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I know little about this "Midtown French-Continental 'time warp'," except what I read in an old Zagat. The New York Times, which reported the restaurant's passage in June 2004 (yes, it's been lying in wait that long for a favorable real estate market), added that The Leopard had "been at...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Back at a time when my brain cells weren't properly nourished, I attempted on reading Albert Camus' The Stranger. You know that très pretentieux kind of demeanour wherein you say you like it when en fait, you really have a...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
LGBT people born today: 1906 – Luchino Visconti – Italian Director – Died 17 th March 1976 1916 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Died 14 th September 2008 1943 – Casey Donovan – US Porn – Died 10 th August 1987 1946 – Michelle Cliff – Jamaican / US Author / Poet / Literary Critic 1961 – KD Lang – Canadian Singer / Musician...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
It is Dirk Bogarde's collaborations with Joseph Losey (five films) and Luchino Visconti (two films) that are made the most of by the critics. But what of his four-film association with Basil Dearden? It was under Dearden's direction that the world got its first glimpse of the dark side of Dirk - as Tom Riley in 'The Blue Lamp' . They did their finest work together with 'Victim' - an incredibly brave,...
The Wild Eye (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Ok, here’s my totally un-academic review of the Luchino Visconti classic Senso. Now this was one of those films which I felt a certain obligation to watch in order to broaden my knowledge of Italian cinema, but it was a task which I approached with as much trepidation as enthusiasm. I have ambiguous feelings about [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
“Araya” comes preapproved, but not everyone will be convinced.
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Italy Feature Film Original Title: La terra trema: Episodio del mare Director: Luchino Visconti Writers: Antonio Pietrangeli, Luchino Visconti Cinematographer: Aldo Graziati Composer: Willy Ferrero Cast: Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Nelluccia Giammona, Agnese Giammona, Rosa Costanzo, Nicola Castorino Although a tad didactic at times, Visconti’s much praised neo-realist film - shot...
Turbulence Ahead (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
"Everything must change so that everything can stay the same." The Leopard I never quite understood the emotion invested by both the No side and the Yes side in the first and second Lisbon Referendums. The Lisbon Treaty itself struck me as a turgidly dull manual for making modest changes to the operation of the European Union with a view to modest improvements in efficiency. A triumph of...
CultureQueens (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
The now-classic film from gay director Luchino Visconti ("Rocco and His Brothers," "The Damned") about an artist in search of purity and beauty but who ultimately becomes fatally obsessed with an exquisite teenage boy is a melancholy experience. Set in turn-of-the-century Venice, this languidly paced, darkly atmospheric film stars Dirk Bogarde as Aschenbach, an older man enamored...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Luc Bondy, whose blow-job–filled production of Puccini's Tosca drew boos on its opening night at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, has opened both barrels on Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1985 staging of Tosca was more popular than Bondy's with Met audiences and who yesterday called him "third-rate." Says Bondy: "I'm a third-rate director, and he is a second assistant of Visconti,"...
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