His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s current Luchino Visconti retrospective climaxes with more than a week of screenings (June 16 and 22-28) featuring the restored, four-hour version of “Ludwig” (1973 ...

1973 Movie"Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world." ...

The trilogy of “The Damned,” “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig” is whole again, in editions that freshly reveal their conflicted queerness. By Joshua Barone The revered Italian director Luchino Visconti ...