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1900 (THREE-DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION)
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A work of massive scope, brilliance, and power, Bernardo Bertolucci's opus chronicles the rise of Fascism and Communism in Italy. This is seen through the interlocking stories of Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, two friends torn apart by the political upheavals in their country. The stellar cast also includes Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, and Alberto Grimaldi. Pauline Kael said Bertolucci "is trying to make a people's film by drawing on the mythology of the movies, as if it were a collective memory. 1900 is a romantic moviegoer's version of the class struggle--a love poem for the movies as well as for the life of those who live communally on the land." This is the full uncut version. In Italian with English subtitles.
Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1977---315 mins.
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BESIEGED
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David Thewlis and Thandie Newton star in Bernardo Bertolucci's provocative character study about an introverted concert pianist and composer who takes in an African woman in exile as his housekeeper. Their relationship intensifies as the pianist declares his love for the woman, whose husband is a political prisoner. Of Bertolucci's work here, Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Reader said it is "a mosaic of images and singular editing patterns--it's the most interesting thing he's done in years, as well as the most pleasurable." In Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1999---95 mins.
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CONFORMIST, THE (WIDESCREEN)
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Bertolucci equates the rise of Italian fascism with the psychosexual life of his protagonist, for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic homosexual experience in his youth. A dazzling descent into the nature of corruption of power, with many now-famous sequences and extraordinary cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda and Stefania Sandrelli. In Italian with English subtitles. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1970---120 mins.
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DREAMERS (BERTOLUCCI)
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Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) captures the innocence, passion and turbulence of Paris during the summer of 1968 with this controversial coming-of-age story. A love of cinema draws an American student (Michael Pitt) to a brother and sister (Eva Green and Louis Garrel). Alone without parents for the summer, the siblings invite the American to stay with them at their apartment, where the teens escape the outside world's political turmoil by allowing their friendship to grow into a voyage of sexual discovery. Bertolucci cleverly weaves clips and homages to classic moments in cinema into the trio's sexual games, which garnered the film an NC-17 rating when Bertolucci refused to edit them down. In French and English with English Bernardo Bertolucci---France/Great Britain/Italy---2004---115 mins.
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LA COMMARE SECCA
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Rarely since Citizen Kane has a film debut by a director conveyed such promise. Like Rashomon, The Grim Reaper brilliantly explores the many sides to the truth of a brutal murder of a prostitute in a Rome Park. Bernardo Bertolucci delves into the dark underbelly of brute poverty, creating a tense tapestry of behavior and a challenging puzzle which leaves us celebrating life in all its pain, joy and humor. In Italian with English Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1962---93 mins.
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LA LUNA (BERTOLUCCI)
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Bertolucci followed his epic 1900 with La Luna, a sumptuous film about an incestuous relationship between a widowed opera singer (Jill Clayburgh) and her drug-addled teenage son (Matthew Barry). Unsurprisingly, American critics like The New York Times' Vincent Canby were resistant: "One of the most sublimely foolish movies ever made by a director of Mr. Bertolucci's acknowledged talents." Reading Luna literally, however, only distracts from the complex pleasures (both musical and Oedipal) of this smart, metaphorical mother-son melodrama. Original music by Ennio Morricone. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. In English. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy/USA---1979---142 mins.
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LAST EMPEROR ( SINGLE DISC )
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Bernardo Bertolucci's multiple Academy Award winner, set and shot in Beijing's Forbidden City, and starring John Lone as Pu Yi, the last emperor of China who, at the age of three, became the "Lord of 10,000 Years," China's last emperor. "A staggering and singular movie experience" (Los Angeles Times). Co-starring Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist). In English. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy/USA---1987---163 mins.
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LAST EMPEROR (CRITERION)
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Bernardo Bertolucci's multiple Academy Award winner, set and shot in Beijing's Forbidden City, and starring John Lone as Pu Yi, the last emperor of China who, at the age of three, became the "Lord of 10,000 Years," China's last emperor. "A staggering and singular movie experience" (Los Angeles Times). Co-starring Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist). In English. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy/USA---1987---163 mins.
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LAST TANGO IN PARIS
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Powerful, explosive, erotic, political film that took the world by storm; Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando co-star in this film of love, sex and will. "The most powerfully erotic film ever made," wrote Pauline Kael. "Last Tango is a genuine masterpiece of staggering proportions," said Newsweek. English dialog. Uncut, X-rated version. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1974---129 mins.
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LITTLE BUDDHA
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Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda star in this sweeping tale of destiny and mysticism. A young American boy's life is transformed forever when he becomes involved with a prince searching for the reincarnation of his beloved teacher. As these different worlds collide, an extraordinary adventure unfolds. Bernardo Bertolucci---Great Britain---1994---123 mins.
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PARTNER (BERTOLUCCI)
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Bertolucci's third feature film is a beautiful, funny adventure that uses sound, silence, music, color and an extremely literary frame of reference to create a two-hour sense of the impression of what it's like to be a romantic in today's world. The screenplay by Bertolucci and Gianni Amico is very freely inspired by Dostoevsky's short novel, The Double, about an ineffectual young man who is taken over--and ultimately driven to madness--by his alter ego, who can do all the things he cannot. In Italian with English subtitles. Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1968---112 mins.
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SHELTERING SKY
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John Malkovich and Debra Winger star as an unfortunate pair of American tourists adrift in the deserts of North Africa. Bernardo Bertolucci brings this Paul Bowles novel to the screen and tries his best to capture in images, the words and intentions of the author. Vincent Canby called this "Bertolucci's most seductive, most hypnotic movie." With Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall and Eric Vu-An. Bernardo Bertolucci---Great Britain/Italy---1990---139 mins.
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STEALING BEAUTY
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A beautiful 19-year-old American girl (Liv Tyler) comes to spend the summer with her late mother's friends. Her mission is to consummate her romance with an Italian boy she met four years earlier and to discover her father's identity through clues in her mother's diary. This lushly filmed romantic adventure, written by Susan Minot, co-stars Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack. In Bernardo Bertolucci---Italy---1996---119 mins.
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