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	Ludwig Review (1972)
		Ludwig is quite a monumental work - directed with grand operatic scale by Visconti, who obviously shares Ludwig’s love of "art" and disdain for the historical facts of Bavaria’s conflicts with Prussia and Austria.
		As it is, the film is mostly consumed with the art, music and the romantic notions of Ludwig as opposed to his political side.
		In Ludwig there are wonderful sequences where the camera glides slowly, over the landscapes, the castles, the ceremonials of the royalty, looking at all the quirks of behavior and social etiquette with such attention to detail like a patient sociologist taking notes.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=963 (1246 words)

	Ludwig (1972) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero...
		The life of Ludwig II of Bavaria is truly worthy of a great film epic and Helmut Berger is amazingly good in the lead role.
		The luscious coronation preparation scene is truly evocative of the period with the magnificent uniforms and court dresses.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0068883 (372 words)

	Romy Schneider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ludwig, Visconti's 1972 film about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, featured her as a much more mature, complex and bitter Elisabeth of Austria.
		Of her other films, the macabre Le Trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli is worth mentioning and what may have been her greatest performance, a chilling turn in "Garde a vue" with Michel Piccoli and Lino Ventura (1981).
		A smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking, especially after the sudden death, on July 5, 1981, of her 14-year-old son, David, who was found impaled on a fence, which he had attempted to climb, at the home of his stepfather's parents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romy_Schneider (767 words)

	Louis (Ludwig) II
		From his self-imposed exile Ludwig communicated with his government through messengers and by telegrams - when he was not listening to verses being recited or rowing in his boat, that resembled a large seashell, in his electrically illuminated grotto.
		Ludwig lent the composer vast amounts of money over the years and believed that it was their joint mission to revive the German culture.
		Ludwig's behavior, his seclusion, his mood swings from friendliness to extreme anger, point to schizophrenia/manic depression, not insanity.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ludwig.htm (1282 words)

	Ludwig 1881 (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake.
		Helmut Berger again plays Ludwig adding subtlety and experience to the role he played in the original film Ludwig (1972).
		The result is a King Ludwig II of more depth and subtlety and a poignant film with beautiful scenes of the Swiss lake.
	imdb.com /title/tt0107457 (315 words)

	Visconti's Cinema of Twilight
		The recurring theme of his period films was the decadence and decline of upper class milieus in the face of historical upheaval: the last months of the Austrian occupation in Senso, the unification of Italy in The Leopard and of Germany in Ludwig (1972), the rise of the Third Reich in The Damned.
		Ludwig is a film about a man avoiding coming to terms with change, put in a position of leadership for which he is hopelessly unfit and which he uses to hide from the world.
		Given her place in the story, as Ludwig's unrequited love, this scene on the one hand brilliantly materializes her rejection of him and his whole morbid fantasy world and, on the other, depicts her as a spirit of freedom that refuses to be trapped by it.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/18/visconti.html (3368 words)

	Ludwig (film) Summary
		Ludwig is a 1972 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of Ludwig II of Bavaria, mostly known today for his blind admiration for Richard Wagner and his commissioning of many palaces in Bavaria such as Neuschwanstein and Herren...
		Ludwig II of Bavaria, the supreme childish fantasist among kings—and one of the most harmless of all kings—is such an obviously magical, gaudy subject for the movies that many people may look forward with glee to Visconti's Ludwig.
		Ludwig is about two mad kings, Ludwig II of Bavaria and Luchino Visconti, who made the picture.
	www.bookrags.com /Ludwig_(film) (248 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> European Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ludwig (1972) is Visconti's film biography of the nineteenth century homosexual "mad" King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
		The 1974 film Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Conversation Piece), is a culmination of the themes that run through most of Visconti's films: the disintegration of family, the decay of traditional values, and the obsessive pursuit of beauty.
		His next film, Mamma Roma (1962), with Anna Magnani in the lead role, explores similar territory, and centers on a woman who is fatefully drawn back to her former life as a prostitute.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/eur_film,3.html (747 words)

	The Kubrick Site: Janet Staiger - The Cultural Productions of A Clockwork Orange
		Since the film itself criticized government attempts to control or condition youth behavior with the proposition that interference by authorities was more immoral than Alex's original behavior, it might look too self-serving of the board to question the film.
		In the criticisms of its representations of violence (and in the ones on the film's morality and its gender politics), a major strategy of both attackers and defenders was to compare and contrast the source material with the film.
		Indeed, the claims that the film was corrupt, unfair, and amoral were as many as the criticisms of its representations of violence and sexual attack.
	www.visual-memory.co.uk /amk/doc/0111.html (6770 words)

	Films on Liberty and the State
		Though the conflict in the film is with a corporatist state, the film is a comedy and it's central focus is this quirky but loving family and their castle that is more than a house...
		This film is a melancholy, dream-like poetic film.
		The earlier film version made in 1958, whatever its virtues, had the ending changed to be Cold War friendly in stark contrast to Greene's novel which was trenchantly critical of the American role.
	www.mises.org /film.asp (10676 words)

	American Zoetrope: Films
		Four Zoetrope-produced films were included in the American Film Institute's top 100 American films.
		American Zoetrope continues to build on its rich film history and legendary standards of quality from its headquarters, the historic Sentinal Building in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
		Below is a complete list of our films--from Coppola's first film, Dementia 13 (1963), to current productions that haven't even been released yet in theaters.
	www.zoetrope.com /zoe_films.cgi (153 words)

	german films - Film Archive
		With Hitler - A Film from Germany, the great arc that began with the feature film Ludwig roughly a century before arrives at its conclusion.
		The structure of the work is a many-layered montage of sound and visual leitmotifs, and of references to history and film in the form of original documentary sound material from the 30s and 40s, of musical quotations and Syberberg's own new projection technique.
		It is the most articulate expression to date of his theory of cinema as the music of the future, as inner projection and as the extension of life with other means.
	www.german-cinema.de /archive/film_view.php?film_id=404 (338 words)

	Ludwig Movie, Review, Cast for Ludwig \| TVGuide.com
		A handsome and stylish film, this biography of the Bavarian "mad king" is ultimately hollow and historically inaccurate.
		A good deal of time is spent showing his patronage of the famed composer Wagner, played by Howard, in what is probably the film's best performance.
		His love life is also explored in his platonic affair with Austrian princess Schneider, as well as his seduction of young men.
	www.tvguide.com /movies/ludwig/104970 (92 words)

	Romy Schneider @ Filmbug UK
		It was during the filming of Christine that she fell in love with French actor Alain Delon, who co-starred in the movie.
		Mainly, however, she stayed in France, working with film directors such as Orson Welles (Le Procès of 1963, based upon Franz Kafka's The Trial) and Luchino Visconti (Ludwig, a 1972 film about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in which she played a much maturer Elisabeth of Austria again).
		A heavy smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking in her later years, especially after the sudden death, in 1981, of her son David, who in a terrible accident was impaled on a fence over which he wanted to climb.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/2024 (584 words)

	jewish.co.uk - jewish film and video directory
		The film begins with home movies of the family in the 1930s and follows Inge Auerbacher from her home town to her deportation to Theresienstadt, where she suffered for 3 1/2 years and was among the 100 children who survived.
		In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber.
		This insidious propaganda film was produced in 1944 in Theresienstadt, the "model" ghetto established by the Nazis in 1941 in Terezin, a town in the former Czechoslovakia.
	www.jewish.co.uk /content/jewishfilm.htm (16220 words)

	POLS Y200 Government and the Sports Business
		The primary goal of this course is to facilitate the ability of students to connect basic political questions and concepts to their portrayal within films.
		When this film was released, there was a great deal of talk that it would foster a frank national discussion on our drug policy and open the possibilities for change.
		The film seems to make much out of the impact on men of being abandoned by their fathers.
	users.ipfw.edu /heyt/syl_y401_fall_01_film.htm (4271 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Film Series: Luchino Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico
		The scale, scope, and theatricality of Italian opera is transposed to film in Senso.
		The extraordinary opening sequence in Venice's famous opera house La Fenice is a classic moment in the history of cinema as Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) falls in love with an Austrian officer (Farley Granger) despite her opposition to Austria's occupation of Venice.
		Based on the life of Bavarian King Ludwig II, Ludwig is the most beautiful and bizarre of the films made by Visconti and Cecchi d'Amico.
	www.nga.gov /programs/filmvisconti.shtm (683 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		Using their story to parallel the revolution’s compromise at the hands of the bourgeois, Visconti paints the film in bold, passionate strokes set to Anton Bruckner’s music, as Valli is driven to the brink of insanity by her love for the conniving Granger.
		Shot entirely in a studio, the film has a dream-like quality, which contributes to the story of a man (Mastroianni) falling deeply in love with a woman, only to discover that she is waiting for the elusive man of her dreams.
		Visconti’s final film is marked by a departure from his epic style of filmmaking, as the film looks at the double standards for men and women in turn of the century Italy.
	www.bam.org /Film/Visconti.aspx (1647 words)

	An eye for deviance, decadence and decline - Film - Entertainment
		Renowned as a director of theatre and opera as well as film, Visconti was both an authentic aristocrat and a self-declared Communist — a paradox frequently cited as a key to his career.
		Deliberately, the film lacks a strong dramatic centre: the weak Frederick, hardly a sympathetic character, shares the spotlight with the demented pedophile Martin, an extreme but not untypical representative of his venomous family.
		In his films, Visconti tended to equate sexual non-conformity with decadence, and both with the possibly suspect activity of the artist.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film/an-eye-for-deviance-decadence-and-decline/2006/05/16/1147545320057.html (1082 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ludwig [1972]: DVD: Silvana Mangano,Gert Frobe,Helmut Berger,Trevor Howard,Romy Schneider,Helmut Griem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Visconti’s 1972 film is a lavish and operatic portrait of Ludwig II, the ‘Mad King’ of Bavaria.
		You will rarely see a film which has been concieved on such a lavish, epic scale; telling the story of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his obsession with Wagner, pretty male favourites, and fairytale castles, it weighs in at over 4 hours on this release of the full length version.
		Previously, 'Ludwig' has been released in various forms, sometimes at half this length, but if you can invest the time to watch it all, the film does have a certain unique charm (although it is admittedly very slow).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ludwig-Silvana-Mangano/dp/B000FIGF0Q (613 words)

	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
		Both were considered 'proof', after the fact, that the film had an influential effect on violence in society.] In preparation for a new 1972 release for US audiences, Kubrick replaced about 30 seconds of footage to get an R-rating, as opposed to the X-rating that the MPAA initially assigned to it.
		The setting of the film is England in the near future [later in the film, the police wear an emblem of Elizabeth II on their lapels].
		To the synthesized sounds of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the stylishly-dressed Alex is filmed in an elaborate, 360 degree tracking shot as he struts through the record store [the soundtrack of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is on display at one of the counters] and scrutinizes young females.
	www.filmsite.org /cloc.html (3754 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: People We Like
		Twenty years after her tragic and untimely passing, these films serve as a testament not only to her stunning screen presence but her great versatility as an actress.
		Visconti’s lush biopic of Ludwig II of Bavaria centers on the tormented and reluctant reign of the “mad king” (Berger), whose artistic tastes and excesses nearly bankrupted his country.
		The film features Romy Schneider (in a reprisal of her ingenue role as Princess Elisabeth of Austria) as Ludwig’s cousin, with whom he engaged in a passionate, platonic relationship despite his equal passion for men, and Trevor Howard as famed composer Richard Wagner, who took advantage of the king’s patronage to advance his own career.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/03_fall/romy.html (880 words)

	"German Trilogy"
		Visconti’s second film in the series, "Death in Venice," (1970) inspired by Thomas Mann’s novel, is one of the most recognized film adaptations of German literature ever.
		"Ludwig" (1972) is by and large the least known of the three films, and deals with last Bavarian King Ludwig II, who is known for building his famous castles with public funds.
		In the film, the "Mad King" is portrayed as a dying breed, a figurehead so completely divorced from the people that he is lost in a world of whimsy and aestheticism.
	www.echoworld.com /B03/B0309/B0309-08.htm (415 words)

	A.P.European History Film Festival
		A very metaphorical film which may be a meditation on the events of recent German history as much as it explores the energy and determination of the age of Spanish Renaissance discoverers.
		This film is also a document of the time in which it was made, and though I now reject much of the 1970s, I appreciate the experimental film making represented by Russell's work.
		This is a film about the greed of two men who work to bankrupt a third,intent to pick up his land cheaply and build a new prosperity for themselves in the rural South of France by raising flowers.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /llefler/movie.htm (12445 words)

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		These films were crafted by inventive filmmakers who dared to test the limits of censorship, and whose films’ political engagement and depth add to their creative merit in the context of film history.
		Filmed as the GDR crumbled, this somber and nuanced portrait of life in East Berlin depicts a young architect who feels his life and goals are being strangled by communist dogma, represented in part by the older generation.
		This classic 1950s teen cult film is a perceptive social portrayal of a city in which political and economic division have affected the entire population.
	www.umass.edu /defa/moma.shtml (6185 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Werner Herzog's Invincible
		Films like Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975), Stroszek (1977), the remake of Murnau’s Nosferatu (1979), and Fitzcaraldo (1985) have established Herzog as artist-king of no-man’s land.
		The body of the film is bracketed with scenes of prewar Poland (actually filmed in Latvia and Lithuania).
		The film’s middle section, the Berlin portion of the trilogy, is all bright lights big city, formal, stylized, magisterial, almost operatic in its contempt of convention.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/herzog.htm (1422 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film & Media \| 2006 \| To Save and Project: The Fourth MoMA International Festival ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Spanning the history of the moving image, these preserved films are vivid reflections of the diverse cultures that produced them, making this annual festival a tribute to the passion and commitment of film conservators and archivists around the world.
		The films in To Save and Project were preserved through the collaborative efforts of FIAF archives, as well as commercial studios and distributors.
		All films preserved by the Netherlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, and silent with Dutch intertitles and simultaneous English translation, with piano accompaniment by John Spurney and Ben Model.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2006/FilmPreservation.html (3172 words)

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