It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.

The Wedding Banquet” was a signal moment in the history of the LGBTQ Asian & Pacific Islander (API) community: When Ang Lee’s ...

Jessica Palud’s Being Maria tells of the rocket-like rise and plummeting miserable descent of actress Maria Schneider ...

When the French Cinémathèque tried to show Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris” last December as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the organizers eventually canceled ...

The films, all from first- and second-time directors, include “Left-Handed Girl” a family film set in Taipei, directed by Shih-Ching and produced and co-edited by reigning Palme d’Or and Oscar Best ...

Director Jessica Palud, a former intern for Bernardo Bertolucci, re-creates the shoot of 'Last Tango in Paris' with a focus on capturing Maria Schneider's abuse.

The acclaimed actress and filmmaker is having a career renaissance playing dynamic mother roles in indie films, including in ...

The sexually explicit drama Last Tango in Paris, made by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci and released in 1972, is the story of an affair between a middle-aged man, Paul, and a young woman ...

“No,” she said, pleadingly. “I’d rather not.” Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, that movie depicts the heated sexual relationship between a young Frenchwoman, Jeanne (Schneider), and an ...

as Palud is much sharper in depicting Schneider’s trauma on the set of “Last Tango” than she is in detailing the psychic fallout of shooting Bernardo Bertolucci’s erotic drama ...

The film is a biopic about her experiences making “Last Tango” and being abused by director Bernardo Bertolucci (Giuseppe Maggio) and Brando while making the film. There are two uncomfortable ...