Another stunning example of the Japanese Movie Program, released to coincide with the release of the film in Japan. One of Scorsese's favourite films of all time, Rocco and His Brothers, stars Alain Delon and was written and directed by Italian cinema legend, Luchino Visconti.
Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti. With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno’s glimmering, on-location cinematography, Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)“represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism,” says A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes—modernity, class tension, familial discord—across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. We also have a couple copies of Two Screenplays by Visconti, which includes La Terra Trema and Senso.
The film is currently available to stream on the Criterion Channel as of writing this and we'd highly recommend checking it out if you haven't already.
