The Last Emperor of 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci was a Non- Conformist,
[on Marlon Brando] An angel as a man, a monster as an actor. – Bernardo Bertolucci
Luca Guadagnino and Bernardo B. Two non-conformist Italian directors
Why Bertolucci’s The Conformist deserves a place in cinema history(the Guardian)
The Italian director’s 1970 expressionist masterpiece offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and co owe him a huge debt
(Dominique Sanda was directed byBertolucci twice, The Conformist and 1900 )
(1900)
(Julian on Bernardo – talking about 1900)
See Julian Schnabel’s painting dedicated to Malik Joyeux and Bernardo Bertolucci
via Bruce Weber
(Malkovich moved to Europe after working with Bertolucci in Sheltering Aky).
Frequently references classic movies
Frequently has nude scenes in his films
Long, complex camera movements.
Often references famous painters or art movements.
Nonlinear timeline.The young Bertolucci took after his father, a Roman poet and film critic, and became a celebrated published poet by the age of 20. He gave up poetry for the cinema after working as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the movie Accattone (1961).
He’s a big fan of Breaking Bad (2008).
[on the end of Breaking Bad (2008)] I’m sad about it. I want more.