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David Edelstein, a New York Magazine film critic and contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air, will no longer be a part of the radio show after he was criticized for insensitive comments made in the wake of Bernardo Bertolucci’s death earlier this week. Edelstein said in a Facebook post Monday about the Italian director’s 1972 L…

Refresh For Updates The Last Emperor and The Dreamers producer Jeremy Thomas, collaborator with Bernardo Bertolucci on five films, has called the late filmmaker “a monumental figure.” Multi-Oscar winner Bertolucci passed away this morning in Rome aged 77 following a battle with cancer. Thomas traveled to say goodbye…

Bernardo Bertolucci, a towering figure of world cinema, has died aged 77. The influential Italian auteur, perhaps best known for epic The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars, and groundbreaking works such as Last Tango In Paris and The Conformist, has passed away in Rome following a battle with cancer his publicist…

Things have been quiet on the Kevin Spacey front — until today. Legendary film director Bernardo Bertolucci recently came forward to defend the disgraced ex-House of Cards actor as he slammed Ridley Scott’s decision to replace him in All the Money in the World. According to the Italian publication il…

Bernardo Bertolucci has responded to reports that surfaced over the weekend alleging the rape scene in Last Tango In Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider was not consensual, labeling it a "ridiculous misunderstanding." The Italian director issued a statement Monday that said: "I would like for the last time to…

Actors and other public figures are responding with outrage at recently surfaced news that Last Tango In Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci, in a three year old video that only came to light this week, confirmed what co-star Maria Schneider has long said about the film’s most controversial moment: the brutal rape…