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

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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.

Episode Links:

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

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