Dear Sandra is an artist book created by Atom Egoyan, inspired by and dedicated to the Luchino Visconti film, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa.
The latter was also the inspiration for Luchino Visconti's movie Rocco and His Brothers; several scenes of the movie, accordingly, were shot in Ghisolfa.
In 1973, Theyard sang in Manon Lescaut at the Spoleto Festival, with Nancy Shade and directed by Luchino Visconti.
He also made the occasional foray into film and television, appearing in two Luchino Visconti films, The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971), as well as many popular British television programmes.
After graduating in Communication (Cinema) at Université du Québec à Montréal and writing workshops with Jean Gruault (scriptwriter for Truffaut), Enrico Medioli (scriptwriter for Visconti) and Robert McKee (writer of the TV series "The Avengers"), Manon Barbeau wrote the novel Merlyne (best-seller summer-fall 1991, Les Éditions du Boréal).
Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni worked on a treatment for a film to be called Il processo di Maria Tarkowska (The Trial of Maria Tarkowska), which was never made.
Some of the films that Milestone has distributed are by Alfred Hitchcock, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Mikhail Kalatozov and Luis Buñuel.
In Rome, where he spent the first months of his stay, he became acquainted with famous Italian film directors Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica.
Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.
He started off handsomely as a romantic juvenile actor but after working with the powerful likes of directors Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica in the 1960s, turned into one of Italy's strongest characters actors of grim, harrowing drama.
Sohl was nicknamed "DNV", by Lenny Kaye, who thought that he resembled "Tadzio", the beautiful Polish boy from Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, played by Björn Andresen.
They then moved to New York for 9 months, where he spent a great deal of time watching movies by Italian neorealist directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, which sparked his interest in film.
The year 1979 sees his debut at the Covent Garden, London, in Don Carlo (Luchino Visconti’s historical production).
Luchino Visconti | Visconti | House of Visconti | Tony Visconti | Filippo Maria Visconti | Eriprando Visconti | house of Visconti | Giovanni Visconti | Gian Galeazzo Visconti | Bernabò Visconti | Marco Visconti | Maddalena Visconti | Giovanni Visconti (archbishop) | Galeazzo I Visconti | Eliseu Visconti | Viridis Visconti | Taddea Visconti | Massino Visconti | House of Visconti (Milan) | Giovanni Visconti (cyclist) | Giovanni Battista Visconti | Galeazzo II Visconti | Azzone Visconti's tomb in the church of San Gottardo, Milan |
In 1954, Senso was memorably adapted for the screen by Italian director Luchino Visconti and then, later, in 2002 into a more sexually disturbing adaptation by Tinto Brass.
He has worked with great directors such as Federico Fellini in I Vitelloni, Michelangelo Antonioni in I Vinti and Luchino Visconti in his stage adaptation of Death of a Salesman.
In 1958 he started writing for the monthly magazine "Realités", portraying famous artists, as e.g. Herbert von Karajan, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luchino Visconti et al.
In the early 1970s he was - again, in small supporting roles - in major international productions such as Ludwig II by Luchino Visconti and Bluebeard of Hollywood director to see Edward Dmytryk and played in the French film The Shadow Line directed by Georges Franju.
Her most significant role was in director Luchino Visconti's 1954 film Senso, in which she worked alongside Alida Valli and Farley Granger, playing the small but important part of Clara, a young prostitute.
Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others.
His acting skills and stage charisma were appreciated by great directors such as Giorgio Strehler, Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti.
The cover picture caused minor controversy when the subject of the photograph, Björn Andrésen, a Swedish actor and musician who played Tadzio in Death in Venice (billed by the director Luchino Visconti as "the most beautiful boy in the world") stated in the press that he objected to the picture having been used without his permission.