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Rocco and His Brothers Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti's brilliant work concentrates on the dramatic clash between two differing value systems - an intellectual belief in the cause of progress and emotional nostalgia for a decaying past. The struggle is played out by two sons, Rocco (Alain Delon), a gentle boy, who is in conflict with Simone (Renato Salvatori), a loutish boxer. Both are in love with Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute, and are bound by old traditions that neither can escape. Considered by many critics to be Visconti's greatest film. Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1960, 170 mins. DVD $44.95
Boccaccio '70 Federico Fellini/Vittorio De Sica/Luchino Visconti/Mario Monicelli Boasting an unbelievable confluence of talent on both sides of the camera, this omnibus collection features contributions by some of the biggest names in Italian cinema. Each of the directors attempts to tell a story that Boccaccio might write if he was alive in the modern era. The Temptation of Doctor Antonio (Federico Fellini) stars Anita Ekberg in the dreamy, humorous tale of a billboard starlet who springs to life in front of an amorous professor. The Job (Luchino Visconti) stars Romy Schneider as a young office worker in love with her boss (Tomas Milian) in a witty tale about marriage and infidelity. The Raffle (Vittorio De Sica) stars Sophia Loren as a woman who opens up a can of worms when she offers herself up as first prize in a shooting gallery. Finally, Renzo & Luciana (Mario Monicelli), is included for the first time after having been cut for the original release. 2-DVD set. Letterboxed. Includes poster and stills gallery, trailers, archival footage, original U.S. main titles sequence, and collectible booklet with talent bios and a reprint of the rare original U.S. press book. In English and Italian with English subtitles. Italy 1962 208 mins. DVD $44.95
The Damned Luchino Visconti A gigantic allegory of the rise of Nazism through the decadent Krupp-like family, who wallow in their opulent decay while their factories produce armaments for the Nazis; a baroque film which explores the dark cycles of violence and evil in human history and consciousness with erotic indulgence. With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling. The DVD is letterboxed, closed-captioned, and includes French and Spanish subtitles. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy/Germany, 1969, 146 mins. DVD $37.95
Death in Venice Luchino Visconti Visconti's adaptation of the classic Thomas Mann novella was a tremendous triumph; Dirk Bogarde plays the aging artist who, in Venice, becomes obsessed with the ideal beauty of a young boy. With stunning cinematography and Visconti's elegant, operatic touch. The DVD is letterboxed, closed-captioned, and includes French and Spanish subtitles. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1971, 130 mins. DVD $37.95
La Terra Trema Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti's epic saga of Sicilian fishermen remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily, with the non-actors speaking their own dialect, and hailed as a revelation at the Venice Film Festival, it is a film with "a powerful sense of realism and sense of lyrical grandeur, almost a kind of operatic cinema verite" (Georges Sadoul). Sicilian with English subtitles. Italy, 1948, 165 mins. DVD $44.95
Le Notti Bianche Luchino Visconti Mario, a shy young man, meets a mysterious girl, Natalie, weeping as she stands on a canal bridge. She tells him that she loves a sailor who left on a long journey and promised to return in one year; a year has passed and he still hasn't arrived. Gradually, Mario falls in love with the girl and struggles to persuade her that the sailor will never return. Just when he seems to have convinced her, the man from her past does in fact appear. Based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell and Jean Marais. The DVD is a Criterion Collection Edition, and includes interview with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, interview with film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Micciche, interview with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, interview with costume designer Piero Tosi, recorded reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story (115 mins.) downloadable as an MP3 file, screen test footage of Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell, essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, trailer, and optional English subtitles. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy 1957 107 mins. DVD $44.95
The Leopard Luchino Visconti Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in what many consider Luchino Visconti's greatest film. Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the epic story follows Prince Fabrizio Salina (Lancaster) and his family as their prominent place in the aristocracy is threatened during the unification of Italy. This visually opulent masterpiece was first widely released in a poorly dubbed and edited, 165-minute version, printed in an inferior color process. This is a restored, Italian version, with its magnificent color intact, although it is still 25 minutes shorter than the version that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. "...one of the grandest widescreen historical epics...Visconti ends his film with a stunning ball scene, in which all his visual powers, his philosophical doubts and ruminations are in evidence" (Derek Malcolm, The Guardian). This is a three-DVD set Criterion Collection edition, and includes the 187-min. Italian-language version and a new transfer of the 161-min. American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice); a commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; a new 60-min. documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, Sydney Pollack, and more; an interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania; the original theatrical trailers; a stills gallery; optional English subtitles; and more. Italian with English subtitles. Italy/France, 1963, 180 mins. DVD $69.95
Luchino Visconti: A Portrait Carlo Lizzani Burt Lancaster, Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Zeffirelli and others share their memories of working with the great Italian director of Rocco and His Brothers, Ossessione, Death in Venice, The Leopard, The Damned and other classics. The film surveys Visconti's career and examines how his background influenced the movies he made. In English and Italian with English subtitles. Italy 1998 61 mins. DVD $44.95
Ossessione Luchino Visconti One of the great revelations of the cinema is Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, about the tragic love between a wanderer and the wife of an innkeeper, who conspire to murder her husband. Unavailable for years in the U.S., the film had a profound influence on the course of the cinema. Open City usually gets the credit, but many scholars consider this the film the real harbinger of the great era of Italian neo-realism. A masterpiece. In Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1942, 142 mins. DVD $44.95
Sandra of a Thousand Delights Luchino Visconti In this searing drama, a woman returns to her home town in order to attend a ceremony commemorating her father. He died like millions of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. This trip rekindles a host of unanswered past memories that hint at betrayal, incest, lost love and the haunting possibilities of what might have been. Italian with English subtitles. Italy, 1965, 100 mins. Videocassette $59.95