Bernardo Bertolucci Articles

Maria Schneider, Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger Maria Schneider Dies: LAST TANGO IN PARIS, THE PASSENGER Robert Altman, for his part, saw more than sex and dairy products in Last Tango in Paris, remarking, "Bertolucci has carried film honesty to its ultimate. How dare I make another movie? My personal and artistic life will never be the same." Ingmar Bergman, fresh from his [...]

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria Schneider, best known for her sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972), died of cancer earlier today in Paris. Schneider was 58. [Addendum: In a strange coincidence, Lena Nyman, the [...]

Jill Clayburgh: Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman (top); Bernardo Bertolucci’s La Luna (bottom) In my very personal view, the worst thing about 1980s American moviemaking isn’t the enormous success of adolescent trash like Return of the Jedi, Beverly Hills Cop, and Top Gun, but the near-disappearance of Jill Clayburgh from the scene. Clayburgh, who died at the age of 66 at her Connecticut home on [...]

Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia Peter O’Toole on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 28. TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" series has only four more days to go. [Peter O’Toole schedule.] O’Toole isn’t one of my favorite actors — I usually find his acting, well, actorish — but he is one of the favorite actors of a whole lot of [...]