Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor may be a long film, but this visual masterpiece is a groundbreaking glimpse into China ...

New film Being Maria explores the life of Maria Schneider and her mistreatment in one of the most notorious, explicit scenes in cinema history.

We got used to seeing genitals onscreen but held our breath to contain our emotion when Marlon Brando sodomized Maria ...

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 ...

Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) struggles after being sexually assaulted on film by Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon).

“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 ...

Daniel introduces Maria to his movie-world friends, she’s enticed, she gets an agent, and then, at the age of nineteen, she is cast—as a virtual unknown—by Bernardo Bertolucci (Giuseppe ...

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

In 1972, when the 19-year-old Schneider was shooting one of the film’s many sex scenes, Brando (with the director Bernardo Bertolucci’s blessing) improvised without telling her his intentions ...

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 ...