Bertolucci

When Bertolucci filmed her in that awful moment, he was lying to himself about the truth he was after.

Bertolucci and Brando are favorites of mine, but “Being Maria” is also important to give Maria a voice.

One movie in high school that had me constantly looking over my shoulder was “The Dreamers,” Bernardo Bertolucci’s notorious coming-of-age drama.

And gone there he has, as a producer of provocative, boundary-breaking films for decades, having won the Oscar for best picture for director Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” in 1988.

I even met with Bertolucci; I was supposed to do “Queen’s Gambit” originally when I was younger, so I had this feeling as I was translating of: “Phew, got out of that one!”