Comments on: THE LEOPARD (IL GATTOPARDO)

By: Freddie Stockdale

Freddie Stockdale — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:53:45 +0000

Can anyone tell me which villas were used for filming in Il Gattopardo?

By: eleonora rampazzo

eleonora rampazzo — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:31:00 +0000

I thought some scenes were shot in Padua in Hotel Toscanelli but I didn’t find any news about it great Photos

By: Ralph Toporoff

Ralph Toporoff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:33:24 +0000

Thanks you for your positive response to my review and photographs. I’ve had three gallery shows of all the Leopard Photos that can be seen under the Exhibits section of on my website http://www.rtoporoff.com or go directly to the cinema photo page by going to : http://www.rtoporoff.com/page4.html .

By: david del valle

david del valle — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:25:27 +0000

I loved seeing your remarkable onset photo’s have they been printed before and do you have more? I think that now while we have definative representations on DVD of this LUDWIG and DEATH IN VENICE ….the time is ripe for a reappraisal of Visconti as the great director and artist Europe has always known him to be…he was a giant of the Cinema….your article has made me want to watch all his films again….

By: James Phillips

James Phillips — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:56:09 +0000

BRAVO! Mr.Toporoff for this enlightening memoir on one of my favorite Visconti films. I have the Criterion dvd release of a few years ago, and saw the revival at The Film Forum in NYC. All I kept thinking about was how much of an influence this film and Visconti’s oeuvre on Francis Ford Coppola when he was filming THE GODFATHER.