|
The Leopard - Criterion Collection
»rank: 7199
0ur opinion:Description:Making its long-awaited U.S. home video debut, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic ltaly. Burt Lancaster stars as the aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful fiancée (Claudia Cardinale). Awarded the Palme d'0r at ...
More details
|
|
Maria Callas - Passion / A Film by Gerard Caillat
»rank: 56090
0ur opinion:Description:A rare glimpse of a truly enigmatic artist. Maria Callas is the greatest opera singer the world has ever known, and this fascinating DVD provides new insights into both Callas the performer and Maria the woman. lncludes rare interview footage of Callas's teacher, Elvira de Hidalgo, her long-time recording producer Michel Glotz, and film and stage producer Luchino Visconti. The most revealing material comes from interviews with Callas herself.
More details
|
|
Maria Callas - La Divina: A Portrait
»rank: 97988
0ur opinion:Description:No other opera singer this century has aroused such public interest, such adulation and such controversy as Maria Callas, 'La Divina Assoluta.' Her dramatic and musical reincarnations of operatic heroines were invested with a psychological depth which made her performances and recordings definitive, and her recordings still outsell every other major classical singer. Callas transformed herself from an overweight ugly duckling into a dazzling beauty, inspired by the sylph-like Audrey Hepburn. She was labeled a 'tigress' for her temperamental image, others thought her behavior so ...
More details
|
