A Conversation with Bernardo Bertolucci (1966) – By John Bragin
The following conversation, or happening, as Bertolucci prefers to call it, took place in the middle of June 1966 when he was just beginning…
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Last Tango in Paris: The Unvisitable Past – Review by Julian Jebb [Sight and Sound]
In Last Tango there is a quite plain idea—it’s very nearly a film with a message: sex as an instrument of power divorced from…
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900: Hail, Folly! – Review by Pauline Kael
Bertolucci is trying to transcend the audience appeal of his lyrical, psychological films. He is trying to make a people’s film by drawing on…
Bernardo Bertolucci: Rolling Stone Interview (1979) – By Jonathan Cott
Bernardo Bertolucci: The Last Taboo. The director confronts the incestuous feelings he says we all have. By Jonathan Cott
The Conformist: The Poetry of Images – Review by Pauline Kael
In this film, one knows that Bertolucci knows who he is and what he’s doing; young as he is, he's a master director. Except…
Before the Revolution (Prima Della Rivoluzione, 1964) – Review by Pauline Kael
This movie expresses what it means to be young with the lyricism and narcissism and self-consciousness of the intelligent young.
Sexual Politics and “Last Tango in Paris” – Essay by Joan Mellen
What is particularly striking about the film, once we get over the sight of Marlon Brando performing anal sex, is that it is, in…
Importance and Ultimate Failure of Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is an important film because of the way it deals with film history. By showing the inadequacy of and parodying two…
Last Tango in Paris (1973): A Transit to Narcissus – Review by Norman Mailer
In this review of Last Tango in Paris, Norman Mailer offers an extensive critique of Bertolucci’s film on the basis of Marlon Brando’s compromised…
Last Tango in Paris | Review by Pauline Kael
The following review, one of the most renowned in the history of film criticism, appeared in The New Yorker magazine on October 28, 1972
Last Tango in Paris (1972) – Review by Bosley Crowther
by Bosley Crowther The vast attention that Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris received while it was several months in the making and when…