Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
The body of Ray’s best work reveals a laudable consistency of viewpoint, thematic cohesion, and aesthetic distinctiveness.
With his beefy head and saturnine manner, Mason was most himself on screen when he was spewing disgust.