Bernardo Bertolucci Articles

The DGA Awards vs. the Academy Awards: Usually But Not Always a Match. [Photo: Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris.] Since 1970, when the DGA instituted the five-nominee limit, a mere ten directors of (at least mostly) non-English-language films have received DGA nods: Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties, 1976), Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, 1982), Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander, 1983), Lasse Hallström [...]

Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris Here's wondering if Maria Schneider would also have found Pauline Kael's review of Last Tango in Paris "kitsch," much like Schneider's latter-day opinion of the film itself. Below is a paragraph found in Kael's lengthy hosanna to Bernardo Bertolucci's drama. It's probably the much revered (and much reviled) critic's best-known piece. And I can't [...]

Maria Schneider Pt. 4: Schneider vs. Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Marlon Brando – LAST TANGO Blame Game After Marlon Brando died in 2004, Maria Schneider watched Last Tango in Paris once again and found it "kitsch." Watching the infamous butter sex/rape scene below, one can see why. The "thrusting, jabbing eroticism" that Pauline Kael found so fascinating in her review of the film will look erotic [...]

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris Maria Schneider Pt. 3: MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH WHORE, A WOMAN LIKE EVE Decades after Last Tango in Paris became a cultural phenomenon, Schneider continued to hold a grudge against Bertolucci — even though she once told the French newspaper Libération that Brando was the one dictating to the "submissive" director how Last Tango [...]