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June 10, 2014  |  An Auteurist History of Film
Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice
Death in Venice. 1971. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti

Death in Venice. 1971. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti

These notes accompany screenings of Luchino Visconti’s </em>Death in Venice</a> on June 11, 12, and 13 in Theater 3.</p>

It’s generally conceded in retrospect that such major directors as F. W. Murnau, Sergei Eisenstein, Marcel Carne, George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli, James Whale, and Edmund Goulding were gay.

November 5, 2013  |  An Auteurist History of Film
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard
Burt Lancaster in The Leopard. 1963. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti

Burt Lancaster in The Leopard. 1963. Italy. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox and Pathé

These notes accompany screenings of Luchino Visconti’s </em>The Leopard</a> on November 6, 7, and 8 in Theater 1.</p>

Count Luchino Visconti (1906–1976), like his fellow product of Milan, Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), had a particular fascination with Sicily