Bernardo Bertolucci

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Born in 1940 Parma, Italy. As a young man Bertolucci achieved fame as a poet before moving into film, first serving as Pier Paolo Pasolini's assistant director on Accattone (1961) and directing his first film, The Grim Reaper (1962).

Bertolucci has done as much as anyone to overcome film censorship just by being so good. If LAST TANGO IN PARIS wasn't such a masterpiece it might have been banned outright. Instead it was widely praised, thereby redefining the boundaries of the mainstream. Aside from controversy, his signature is brilliant work with color and texture. (Some shots in STEALING BEAUTY and THE SHELTERING SKY are so "wow!" beautiful they almost distract from the story.) 

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Love And Anger (Amore e Rabbia) (2 DVD Set)    1969
NoShame DVD / Region 1 (USA)
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 "A woman is raped outside a tenement while her neighbors tune out the screams with their TVs… an avant-garde theatre troupe enacts the Death of God and the annihilation of the human race… a smiling Italian youth cavorts on a Rome thoroughfa... (See full description)
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Dreamers, The (Uncut NC-17 DVD)    2003
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
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 This was one of the more controversial major films of the last decade. Set during the Paris student riots of 1968, the story (adapted by film critic Gilbert Adair from his novel) is a Henry James-esque literary stand-by... bright young man ... (See full description)
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