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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 18, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Films by Luchino Visconti (BFI, video pounds 15.99 each, DVD pounds 19.99). Two early classics by Italy's only communist aristocrat. Ossessione (1942, PG) is a powerful, albeit unacknowledged, adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice; La Terra Trema (l948, U) converts Giovanni Verga's 19th- century realist novel I Malavoglia, about exploited fishermen, into a socialist masterpiece.

Films by Phillip Noyce (Miramax, only to rent on video and DVD). This Australian director staged a comeback ...

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