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Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969): Criterion Blu-ray review

Posted on September 29, 2021September 28, 2021 by Kenneth George Godwin

Martin von Essenbeck (Helmut Berger) provides entertainment at a family gathering in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969)

Criterion’s new Blu-ray presents Luchino Visconti’s darkly perverse The Damned in a new 2K restoration whose dense colours emphasize the gloom hanging over a powerful German industrial family collapsing under the weight of its own decadence as the Nazis consolidate their political power in the early 1930s.

Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)

Posted on August 13, 2012July 22, 2024 by Kenneth George Godwin

I was surprised to read over the weekend of the death of Kurt Maetzig. He was 101. Maetzig began his career in film in the ’30s with work on film technologies and animation. After the rise of the Nazis his work permit was revoked because of his mother’s Jewish heritage, and he spent the war […]

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