Filmmaker Osgood "Oz" Perkins has a fascinating family history, which he reckons with in his own work, most recently “The Monkey.” In his latest film, a teenage boy attempts to map out a family tree ...

Discussing Luchino Visconti’s 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice,” Eggers highlighted the performance of Dirk Bogarde, an English actor also known for “The Servant ...

A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the ...

The "Nosferatu" writer/director's selections included "Death in Venice," "Demon Pond," and the subversive work of Tod Browning.

Walter Salles’ Oscar-nominated film chronicles the abduction of Rubens Paiva and its aftermath during Brazil’s dictatorship ...

Her death, in a hospital ... Downer set out to explain its use to a group of women at a feminist bookstore in Venice Beach, Calif. As she later recalled, when she began to describe the technique ...

The new film “Peter Hujar’s Day”, which recently premiered at Sundance, is based on the transcript of a 1974 conversation between Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz ...

1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...

After Stranahan's untimely death in 1929 during an economic crisis, Ivy Stranahan rented out rooms of the home and leased the lower floor to a few restaurants. After her passing in 1971 ...

He recreated his stage role as the Duke of Clarence for the mini-series The Wars of the Roses (1965), appeared as Prince of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice ... s Death (New Theatre, 1971 ...

Death in Venice (1971) With the remaining films, literary allusions are easy to detect. In the late 1960s, Visconti was offered the chance to adapt one of his favourite novels, Marcel Proust’s ...

I visited the city in 1971 and then again in the 1990's after the floodgates ... I literally could not breathe from the mobs of people who choked Venice to death. As far as I can determine, although ...