Silvana Mangano
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
2) Ulysses
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ulysses' return from the Trojan Wars sets him upon a legendary adventure. He and his crew sail under the curse of Cassandra, and encounter Circe, the sirens and the cyclops.
Series
Criterion collection volume 792
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning adaring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.