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Presented by Dr Mark NichollsFree event. Registration essential here: https://www.coasit.com.au/italian-cinema-forum-5-il-gattopardo-the-leopard-1963
Martin Scorsese cites this as “One of the films I live by.” Mark Nicholls claims it is the film he is prepared to die for. The head of the Italian Communist Party told Visconti not to cut a thing. This workshop looks beyond the showfolk hype and attempts to fathom just what it was that induced Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon – along with the Milanese Visconti and his creative companions – to spend months in the Sicilian heat recreating on film the subtleties and nuances of Tomasi di Lampedusa’s international best-selling novel. We will look closely at the film’s famous 1862 Palermo Ball scene and all that it has to say about Italian history, the Risorgimento and the private griefs and vanities which accost the Prince of Salina as he confronts a world which is both changing and resolutely staying the same.
Dr Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he has taught film since 1993. Mark has worked as a film journalist for ABC Radio and The Age, and has a list of over twenty stage credits as a playwright, performer, producer, and director.
ITALIAN CINEMA FORUM: Following the successful classic and contemporary Italian cinema workshops chaired by Mark Nicholls at CO.AS.IT. (2019-2023), we continue the discussion with new instalments for 2024. Join us for this year’s forum. Our aim – as always – is to stimulate you to watch these films and television programs, again or for the first time, and to bring your ideas and insights to our usual lively discussion.
Image: Screenshot from Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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189-199 Faraday Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3053, Co As It, 189-193 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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