{"product_id":"bernardo-bertolucci-interviews-9781578062058","title":"Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Last Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernardo Bertolucci may ultimately be best remembered for \u003ci\u003eLast Tango in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, which Pauline Kael called the most erotic film ever made. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eBefore the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spider's Strategem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conformist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLast Tango in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e--to his more mainstream works--\u003ci\u003eThe Last Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Buddha\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBesieged\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In all, this is a stunning self-portrait of one of cinema's greatest filmmakers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFabien S. Gerard\u003c\/b\u003e has been working as Bertolucci's script supervisor for the last ten years and is the author of the shooting diary of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently teaches film history at Brussels University. \u003cb\u003eT. Jefferson Kline\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of French at Boston University. He has written five books on French cinema, film, and intertextuality in screenplay. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eAgnès Varda: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBertrand Tavernier: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eBruce Sklarew\u003c\/b\u003e, a Washington, DC, psychoanalyst and physician, is director of the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film and is a friend of Bertolucci's.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357064401170,"sku":"9781578062058","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_70102281-671e-4283-9ffe-d7165737182d.jpg?v=1728316488","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bernardo-bertolucci-interviews-9781578062058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}