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29 November 2020
The Oil Route to Tehran
The Embassy of Italy in Tehran with contributions from Iran’s Art and Experience Cinema is organizing...
23 October 2020
An Italian Retrospective in Shanghai
The Shanghai Art Film Federation is staging an Italian Film Masters Retrospective to commemorate the...
27 August 2020
The Last Emperor in Hong Kong
Tickets are on sale in Hong Kong for the reissue of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, which...
10 August 2020
The Art Dreamers in Belgrade
It is also a tribute to the homonymous film by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Dreamers chosen as the title...
1 August 2020
The Last Emperor conquers Taiwan
Since last May for the first time in the Taiwanese theaters, The Last Emperor has been the highest grossing...
26 February 2020
Ryuichi Sakamoto to Be Honored in Locarno
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival, held from 5 to 15 August...
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Diary
AT HOME WITH BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
We publish a video interview with Bernardo shot in 2011 by Carlo Lavagna and Roberto De Paolis. The interview was done in 2011, during the pre-production of Me and You, in Bertolucci’s house in Trastevere.
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OLIVER STONE ON THE LAST EMPEROR
We publish a review by Oliver Stone of the Last Emperor, originally written in November 1998 for the New York Times, on the occasion of the release of the director’s cut version of the film.
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KIT AND PORT’S BOOKS
In a letter written to Bernardo during the shooting of The Sheltering Sky (from July in streaming on the The Criterion Channel), Paul Bowles responds to the request to list the books that Kit and Port...
WHEN WE WERE LITTLE BUDDHAS
We publish a found interview where Bernardo Bertolucci talks about India and Little Buddha. The interview was shot in Bertolucci’s house in Trastevere by Stefano Pistolini and Massimo Salvucci for...
Au Revoir
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BIOGRAPHY
Bernardo Bertolucci in Rome, 1967
Photo Gideon Bachmann
FILMOGRAPHY
Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the Little Buddha
I left the ending
ambiguous,
because that is
the way life is.