Criterion Reflections – Episode 46 – Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice

David is joined by Josh Hornbeck, William Remmers and Robert Taylor as they strive to escape the mediocrity that lies at the bottom of the mainstream.

Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Josh Hornbeck, William Remmers and Robert Taylor to discuss Death in Venice, directed by Luchino Visconti.

Criterion
Wikipedia
BFI – Where to Begin with Luchino Visconti
Film Baby Film podcast: Luchino Visconti’s Filmography: Part 1 / Part 2
IndieWire
New York Times
Senses of Cinema
TIFF
TSPDT

Death in Venice

Criterion
La Biennale de Venizia
Film Quarterly (1971, excerpt)
New York Times (1971) / Rebuttal by Burton Pike, professor of German literature
Roger Ebert (1971)
Time (1971) – quoted in Criterion essay liner notes
BBC
Cinema Italiano (podcast)
Culture Court
Emmanuel Levy
Film School Rejects
The Guardian
HuffPost
IndieWire
Journal of Medicine and Movies
JSTOR
Movie-Locations.com
MUBI
TCM
Umbigo
Sparks (the band) – an account of the influence that Death in Venice had on their early career

Visconti’s “German Trilogy” (The Damned/Death in Venice/Ludwig)

Forward
Dennis Cooper

Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice

Original text: pdf / txt / epdf
Wikipedia
Modernism Lab
Publishing Perspectives – A Century of the Translated Trope
Władysław Moes – real life inspiration for Tadzio
Tadzio Speaks: Tadzio Incarnate
Academia.edu (essay on the adaptation from Mann to Visconti)
Benjamin Britten and Luchino Visconti: Iterations of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
The Eclipse Viewer
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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