Bernardo Bertolucci

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Actors Anouk Aimee and Robert De Niro present Bernardo Bertolucci with a special award for his film The Last Emperor during the 1987 Cannes International Film Festival. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Bertolucci’s legacy marred by ugly stories about ‘Last Tango’

Forty-six years ago, Pauline Kael, the New Yorker’s influential film critic, did not hold back when heralding the debut of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last (...)

Bernardo Bertolucci: the Italian director in 2013. Photograph: Fred Prouser/Reuters
Bernardo Bertolucci, ‘Last Tango in Paris’ director, dies at age of 77
  • Film
  • November 26, 2018, 09:11

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director famous for movies such as Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, has died at 77, Italian media reported o(...)

Top of the list: Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa. His Rashomon came in at No. 4
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed

Over the last few years, BBC Culture has been asking the world’s critics – including this writer and my colleague Tara Brady – to vote for their 100 f(...)

Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Showgirls’ is an example of good practice in sex scenes.
Good sex scenes: when actors play it safe

There’s a lot more sex these days. On screen and on stage at least. Even the most middle of the road drama has become steadily raunchier and sexier. A(...)

Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman appear on stage to give the Palme d’Or award during the Closing Ceremony at the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival in 2014. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape comments

It always seemed likely that the waves of disapproval kicked up by the Weinstein scandal would eventually reach Quentin Tarantino. The director made (...)

Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris
Actors voice disgust over Last Tango in Paris rape scene confession
  • Film
  • December 4, 2016, 20:59

The film industry has reacted with disgust at the admission from a director that one of the most notorious rape scenes in modern film history was sho(...)

Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance in the sexually explicit mainstream film ‘Intimacy’
The not so steamy secrets of sex on set

The Fifty Shades juggernaut rolled into town recently amid a storm of white-hot hype, only to be met with stinging criticism. Chief among the gripe(...)

The film, to be released as ‘Muhammad, Messenger of God’ in festival’s opening ceremony, is made by Majid Majidi, a leading pro-establishment Iranian director. Photograph: Andrew H Walker/Getty Images
Iran prepares for premiere of film on Prophet Muhammad

As controversy swirls on how the Prophet Muhammad is depicted, a multimillion-dollar biopic about his youth – Iran’s most expensive and lavish film t(...)

Rachel Weisz as Evanora in Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful
The witches of Oz

You need not be waist deep in Angela Carter (though such immersion probably helps) to know that fairy stories – both ancient and contemporary – hav(...)