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Posted by Gee LP (A) on September 23, 2003 at 22:02:55

In Reply to: How do you guys feel about Visconti? posted by Victor Khomenko on September 21, 2003 at 07:13:37:

I love Visconti's work! It's obvious Coppola studied the party in "The Leopard" a looonng time before shooting or editing the wedding sequence in "The Godfather."

Even his last film, "The Innocent", with Laura Antonelli, is at least easy on the eyes.

Pauline Kael wrote that Visconti tried for several years in the early/mid 70s to raise the money to shoot Proust's "Sodom and Gomorrah" with Brando as Baron Charlus. This was right after "Last Tango in Paris"...what a film THAT would've been!