Bernardo Bertolucci

Retire? Not 'Amour's' two eightysomething stars

2012-12-09 08:00:00

PARIS — Up four old, crooked flights of stairs in her apartment building with no elevator, Emmanuelle Riva sits wrapped in a thick, woven, poncho-like sweater. Warm light streams through colorful windowpanes into her narrow living room, where Riva...

High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating

2012-08-18 08:30:00

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

Shanghai Film Fest: Tale of American boy in China wins prize

2012-06-21 18:30:00

"The Dragon Angel," the story of an American boy who saves a traditional Beijing home from destruction by his architect father and a Hong Kong developer working together to put up a skyscraper, was voted the most promising co-production in development...

Around Town: The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' gets a makeover

2012-05-10 16:37:58

Movie Projector: 'Muppets' to rule slow post-Thanksgiving weekend

2011-12-01 16:33:30

Maria Schneider dies at 58; actress in 'Last Tango in Paris'

2011-02-04 00:00:00

Maria Schneider, the French actress who appeared opposite Marlon Brando in "Last Tango in Paris," the 1972 movie whose strong sexual content stirred international controversy, has died. She was 58. Schneider died in Paris on Thursday after a long...

Honorary Oscar recipients named

2010-08-26 00:00:00

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would present "The Godfather" director-producer Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and give honorary Oscars to British film...

29 literary films to fill your holidays [Updated]

2010-12-21 16:34:02

An appreciation: Jill Clayburgh

2010-11-08 00:00:00

There is a classic Jill Clayburgh scene in Paul Mazursky's "An Unmarried Woman," the 1978 film the actress will be remembered for most in a career that kept her busy with work nearly until her death on Friday. She's walking down a crowded New York City...

Happening Tuesday: Bootsy Collins, 'Pretty in Pink' and more

2011-05-03 00:00:00

The resurgence of Rudolph Wurlitzer

2009-11-15 00:00:00

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer's novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, "Nog," the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds itself like soft clay. Rather than buttressing his...

Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.

2009-06-20 00:00:00

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...

Jean-Louis Trintignant stars in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist."

2012-10-02 12:58:20

Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci will be guest director at AFI.

2012-09-29 00:00:00

Keanu Reeves starred as Siddhartha in director Bernardo Bertolucci's story of the Buddha. Did the world's Buddhists protest? They certainly didn't buy movie tickets. Fewer than $5 million in tickets were sold.

2012-09-21 14:26:05