Collected here are forty years of the thoughts of one of the
most influential filmmakers of our time. Although the winner of
nine Academy Awards for his The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci
may ultimately be best remembered for his Last Tango in Paris,
which Pauline Kael called the most erotic film ever made.
This volume gives a privileged view of Bertolucci's career from
the days of his first radical experiments to the present, when he
has become an elder statesman of world cinema. Half of these
twenty-three interviews appear in English for the first time. The
conversations resonate with themes that run throughout Bertolucci's
work and thought from his early experimental films--Before the
Revolution, The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist, and Last Tango
in Paris--to his more mainstream works--The Last Emperor, The
Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, and Besieged.
These conversations with Bertolucci reveal the significance of
psychoanalysis in his films, the relationship between films and
dreams, his early fascination with Godard and the "New Wave," his
views on extremism and radical politics, and his personal search
for cinematic truth. As the interviews progress through four
decades of his filmmaking, they show his artistic evolution. In the
earliest he is questing for answers to questions about the
"fundamental cinema problem." In the latest he has come to
recognize the need to please his audience.
As Bertolucci speaks, he provides his autobiography, his
psychohistory, a production journal of each of his films, a
portrait gallery of his contemporaries, a compendium of film
theory, and an ABC of ideas that range from auteur theory, Bazin,
the camera, dance, editing, right on to Zen. He speaks of his early
poetry, his fiercely revolutionary stances of the 1960s, and his
gradual discovery that he always has to be in love with his
audiences.
In all, this is a stunning self-portrait of one of cinema's
greatest filmmakers. Fabien S. Gerard has been working as
Bertolucci's script supervisor for the last ten years and is the
author of the shooting diary of The Last Emperor. He currently
teaches film history at Brussels University.
Bruce Sklarew, a Washington, D. C., psychoanalyst and physician,
is director of the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film and
is a friend of Bertolucci's. T. Jefferson Kline has been a
professor of French at Boston University since 1979 and is the
author of "Bertolucci's Dream Loom: A Psychoanalytic Study of
Cinema" and other books.
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