Whatever its value as a platform for great cinema, the Cannes Film Festival is easily the most stylish event on the cultural calendar—even Julian Schnabel is moved to put on a tux for the affair. And from the very first … read more →

In 1963 the noble-born Italian director Luchino Visconti released Il Gattopardo, his most personal and operatic film (and that, in a c.v. that includes Death in Venice). The Leopard, as it comes to us Anglophones, based on the Lampedusa novel … read more →