Kino Lorber has unveiled a brand new 4K restoration trailer for the classic 1970 Italian Fascism film The Conformist, made by iconic director Bernardo Bertolucci. The film originally opened 51 years ...

Two years before he stunned the film world with 1972’s Last Tango in Paris, 29-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci directed The Conformist, a deeply unsettling portrait of a Fascist secret policeman ...

Jean-Louis Trintignant, a French actor known for art house classics like “The Conformist,” “Z,” “My Night at Maud’s” and more recently the Palme d’Or winner “Amour,” has died. He was 91. Trintignant ...

You get what you pay for with this bargain-priced but woefully skimpy reissue of Bernardo Bertolucci's vivid masterwork. Another distributor, say Warners or Criterion, would likely have gone to town ...

In this visual essay, renowned film critic and historian Adriano Apra takes a closer look at Bernardo Bertolucci's work with Pier Paolo Pasolini on La Commare Secca and discusses its poetic qualities ...

Dan, if it’s not too late I’d love to respond to your post on District 9 , Armond White and the ” can a film critic be too contrarian ?” dustup. Maybe it’s just because, on that nifty widget designed ...

Style and story exist in perfect harmony in The Conformist. Shot by legendary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, the film is a visual buffet of elegance. Storaro and Bertolucci employ chilly tracking ...

It’s hard to believe Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Conformist” is 40 years old. The filmmaker’s 1970s surreal masterwork couldn’t feel more contemporary with its tale of political and sexual dark forces ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Conformist” seems to sneer at everything it celebrates. It mocks the ...

Michael Showalter’s directorial debut is an immodestly refreshing crash course in modesty. CPA Elliot Sherman (Showalter) is the self-described “Baxter”—one of those “old-fashioned” chaps, all tweed ...