Besieged

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Claudio Santamaria, David Thewlis and Thandie Newton...."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Emperor and the Assassin

"...cruelty in the pursuit of his quest. Much as Bernardo Bertolucci gave us the spectacle of The Last Emperor..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Goya in Bordeaux

"...Emperor, Dick Tracy, and most of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci. Goya in Bordeaux revels in Storaro's magisterial touch..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heavy

"...James Mangold's Heavy was made in 1994, well before Bernardo Bertolucci's recent Stealing Beauty, it's remarkable how both directors..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

"...greatest popularity probably came indirectly, following the release of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film adaptation of Bowles' 1949 novel, The..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Emperor: Director's Cut

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1900

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Sterling Hayden,..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Stealing Beauty

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Liv Tyler, Sinead Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dreamers

The NC-17 rating is revived for Bertolucci's fervent ode to cinema and the idealism of youth.

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Little Buddha

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Ying Ruocheng, Alex..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Conformist

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre..."

March 1, 2001 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Especially on Sunday

"...Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore, Giuseppe Bertolucci and Marco Tullio Giordana. Starring: Philippe Noiret, Bruno Ganz,..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...certainly seething – also: writhing, moaning, butter – in Bernardo Bertolucci's X-rated Last Tango in Paris, about a strictly..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Suggested Viewing

"...Before the Revolution (1964, Bernardo Bertolucci)..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...New works to look for by European auteurs include Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Eric Rohmer's Autumn Tale, and Wim Wenders'..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

The Last Emperor

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Peter O’Toole, Joan Chen and John Lone...."

July 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus

The legendary composer delivers his final performance in a stirring concert documentary

"...his music made me feel. As an eight-year-old watching Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (too young), I had to..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Great Directors

Ten international filmmakers reflect on their careers and concerns for the medium

"...Varda and the "bad girl" Breillat); and two Italians (Bernardo Bertolucci and Liliana Cavani)...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

A Starlet is Born

Liv Tyler

"...Let's all agree that with Stealing Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci's lyrical film about a group of Tuscan men..."

July 26, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...The Conformist D: Bernardo Bertolucci (1971); with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Romance Is in the Air at AFS Cinema

Austin Film Society programmers preview their Valentine-inspired Love Month series

"...more off-kilter picks, which includes the throuple theatre of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (Feb. 12-19). Likening romance overall to..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Screens Feature by James Scott

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 2-8

"...the first time something I have always known.” – Bernardo Bertolucci...."

Feb. 2, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Other Worlds Austin Review: Be My Cat: A Film for Anne

Bizarre Romanian horror brings insane spark to found footage

"...relevant in the wake of the recent allegations against Bernardo Bertolucci, and the Chicago Reader's revelations about former Profiles..."

Dec. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jonathan Demme Presents …

AFF awardee reprises screening of Texan Eighties classics

"...to a number of prominent filmmakers. If memory serves, Bernardo Bertolucci described Speed something along the lines of a..."

Oct. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

Film History, With a Fresher Date Than Usual

Austin Cinematheque opens season with Uncle Boonmee

"...classics such as François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist to homegrown gems such as Jim..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...in turn inspired such admirers as George A. Romero, Bernardo Bertolucci, Wes Anderson, and especially Martin Scorsese, whose Film..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Summer Palace

This Chinese film dramatizing the Tiananmen Square massacre earned the director a five-year ban from making movies

"...A look inside a very different China, from director Bernardo Bertolucci. This mammoth four-disc set features a new digital..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Mirror of Soul: The Forough Farrokhzad Trilogy and Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away

"...filmmaker with The House Is Black that same year. Bernardo Bertolucci made a film about her back then, and..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Italian, Criterion-style

Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel down the throat of its native filmmakers before it comes back up twice as Azzurri.

"...but the Italians gave the world La Traviata and Bernardo Bertolucci, whose brief video afterword for Fists contextualizes the..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Divorce Italian Style

With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni, the Criterion Collection's devotion to post-war Italian masterpieces is serious business. Seriously buffo, comico, spiritoso in the case of neo-realist Pietro Germi's 'Divorzio all'Italiana' (1962).

"...La Commare Secca (Criterion): Bernardo Bertolucci's adaptation of his mentor Pier Paolo Pasolini's story..."

May 6, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

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