The Paris St Germain coach, John Kear, searched in vain before this match against the London Broncos for a French phrase equivalent to "muck and nettles". Whatever might have been lost in translation during his pre-match talk, his players got the general idea, battling...

NAME: Maria Schneider DESCRIPTION: The feisty filly from "Last Tango in Paris," who has 49 films under her belt and a sharp sensibility above the neck LAST SEEN: Being honored recently at the world's biggest Intl. Women's Film Fest PARIS...

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 won the 11-day-long festival's award for best direction for his film "Redacted" about the Iraq...

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 Tavern on the Green this Friday night for the opening of the 45th...

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 suppress manifestations of spontaneous feeling in its members, stifling individuality by forcing it into a uniform limbo of bland conformity. The suppression of natural feelings is not, however, tantamount to their elimination, and thus they are destined to resurface in a distorted guise. For the protagonist of The Conformist, Marcello Clerici, an...

The movie breakthrough has finally come. Exploitation films have been supplying mechanized sex—sex as physical stimulant but without any passion or emotional violence. The sex in Last Tango in Paris expresses the characters' drives…. Many of us had expected eroticism to come to the movies, and some of us had even guessed that it might come from Bertolucci, because he seemed to have the elegance and the richness and the sensuality to make lushly erotic movies. But I think those of us who...

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 heartfelt or phoney? is the scene beside his wife's coffin the best or the worst in the film? was it a mistake to show her face or a masterful stroke? Paradoxical because the real subject of Last Tango is the elusiveness of objects, images, and characters, the difficulty of making emotional connections, the elements of fraudulence and ...