Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of ...

In an Ivo Van Hove production, the theatrical experience can at times attain an intensity so severe as to approximate an assault on the senses. His plays are so totalizing, the performances so raw, ...

J.K. Rowling and the late Luchino Visconti suddenly have something in common. You need to have ingested several of the “Harry Potter” novels and movies to know what’s going on in the current Broadway ...

Visconti did, indeed, set out deliberately to surprise and to shock with The Damned, as he explains in a 1970 interview that's among the extras on this new Criterion release, a 2K digital restoration ...

Acclaimed theater director Ivo van Hove stages this ambitious multimedia adaptation of the screenplay for Luchino Visconti's 1969 film classic, 'The Damned.' By Frank Scheck Adapted from the ...

It may very well be impossible to properly prepare for the descent into decadence and depravity that is Luchino Visconti’s The Damned. As a relative neophyte to the director (having only seen Rocco & ...

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 ...

J.K. Rowling and the late Luchino Visconti suddenly have something in common. You need to have ingested several of the “Harry Potter” novels and movies to know what’s going on in the current Broadway ...

Luchino Visconti pulls out all stops to detail the progress of Nazism in the 1930s as seen via one upperclass family. This has got to be the most violent family since the Borgias. Screaming, yelling, ...