The precision of the film’s images only exacerbates the alienation of its protagonist.
Bernardo Bertolucci’s film is a living, fluid organism that spans the distances between several poles of extremity.
While Raro’s commendable Blu-ray is leagues ahead of its competitors, even it fails to fully deliver the perfect image this movie so richly deserves.
Not even the choice of a lead with visible facial acne scars, a welcome gesture toward authenticity, is enough to overcome the gaping hole of psychological nuance at the film’s center.
The drama remains appealingly off-kilter for the most part, but Me and You is not without familiar histrionics.
We’ve rounded up 15 movie weddings that—aw, hell—take the cake.
Essential viewing, if not only for its edutainment factor, but for the dynamism and felt resonance of its maker’s bounding enthusiasms.
They’re also unassailable in their perfection, and could easily fall at the top of any all-time best list arrived at by consensus.
This three-disc set of 1900 is significant for presenting Bertolucci’s most epic epic in its most complete form.
For this list of 15 standouts, the door was open to hallucinations, inanimate objects, and even different species.
Twixt is Francis Ford Coppola in grindhouse mode.
We spoke with Perry about his film, then asked him to make a list of some of his most memorable moviegoing experiences.
If Cannes is the cinephile’s version of the Olympics, the media critics covering the event are its long-distance runners.
Sex isn’t just a setting here the way that, say, ballet is just the setting of Black Swan.
The Conformist represents Bernardo Bertolucci’s first fully successful coordinated attack on the retinas.
As photographed by Vittorio Storraro, the film is a mélange of the sensual haziness of ’70s European art-house fair and the high-contrast, anxious angles of film noir.
An intellectual achievement rather than a visceral or emotional one.
The Great Directors is at the very least a breezy bit of cinephiliac entertainment.
Language is only one factor in the film’s negotiation of East and West.
The awe-inspiring camerawork combines gorgeous color, expansive landscapes, and a set of beautifully incorporated symbols.