Four-Star Films : ‘Death in Venice’
Luchino Visconti’s chillingly lovely, opulent, angst-ridden adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella about obsessive love tells of the repressed passion of an aging artist named Aschenbach for a beautiful boy he sights on the Venice beach, during a time of plague. In Visconti’s conception, Aschenbach is actually composer Gustav Mahler--whose haunting Fifth Symphony echoes despairingly on the soundtrack. With Dirk Bogarde (left) and Bjorn Andresen (as the duo), Marisa Berenson (right) and Silvana Mangano (Cinemax Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.).
Other selected four-star films airing this week:
La Dolce Vita / Bravo, Monday, 8:30 a.m.
Babette’s Feast / TMC, Monday, 2 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m.
Swing Time / AMC, Tuesday, 9 a.m.
A Hard Day’s Night / AMC, Tuesday, 4 and 11 p.m.
Touch of Evil / AMC, Saturday, noon.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Disney, Saturday, 4 p.m.
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