Critical Essay by Leo Braudy
It is paradoxical that Last Tango in Paris should have had [so much critical] attention directed at its parts: are its sexy scenes sexy? are Brando's monologues he...
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Critical Essay by Julian Jebb
The confusion of response which [Last Tango in Paris] excites arises, I think, from several sources: the opulent cinematography, Marlon Brando's performance and t...
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Critical Essay by Norman Mailer
[The separate backgrounds of Jeanne and Paul divide Last Tango in Paris] as neatly between biography and fornication as those trick highball glasses which present a dr...
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Critical Essay by Daniel Lopez
The premise fundamental to [The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris] is an indictment of one of society's cornerstones, the bourgeois family, all too apt to suppr...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
The movie breakthrough has finally come. Exploitation films have been supplying mechanized sex—sex as physical stimulant but without any passion or emotional vio...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
And after all the advance fuss, what is [Last Tango in Paris]? Three films. One is new Bertolucci, one is old Bertolucci, and one is old New Wave. The first of the...
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Taiwan-born Ang Lee's erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" won the Venice Film Festival's top award Saturday, two years after he captured the same prize here with "Brokeback Mountain."Brian De Palma...
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Rome (dpa) - George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Richard Gere head a
star-studded cast vying for the coveted Golden Lion awards at this
year's Venice Film Festival, which opens on...
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Background InfoBorn on 25 August 1931,
Peter
Gilmore
was raised in Yorkshire and left school at age 14 to take a menial job at factory in
London
. Despite the tough circumstances,
Gilmore
neve...
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San Francisco (dpa) - The new Ang Lee film Lust, Caution delivers
what its title promises. The winner of the best director Oscar for
the 2005 movie B...
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Forget the end of Labor Day weekend, Fashion Week, or the return of corduroy, tweed, and the TV network’s fall schedule: When the bright lights are festooned across the outdoor patio at Taver...
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Studios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of resto...
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Studios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of resto...
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Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to rep...
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Critical Essay by Leo Braudy
Ang Lee wins top prize at Venice, again
