Bernardo Bertolucci may not have created an imitable formula for the free-flowing erotic art film with Last Tango in Paris (1972), but he certainly aided in making audiences more appreciative of, if not hungry for further adventures of older men being teased by luscious temptresses, but Gianluigi Calderone’s Appassionata takes things a little bit farther into the Wrong domain…
Italian producer Carlo Ponti (Doctor Zhivago) bankrolled the appropriately titled What? / Che? a sex comedy crafted by Roman Polanski and longtime co-writer Gerald Brach…
Moving day nears, so here’s a quick update on current delays, impending challenges, and the next site update after settling into the new pad.
When Premiere magazine was in its finest form, printing a balance of ephemera, history, current interviews, portraits, and exposes, they also did an occasional tally of the ’10 best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood,’ updating the status of each as to whether a work had just been greenlit, went into turnaround…
Reviews of more neo-noirs, all dark and sexy on Blu from Twilight Time: Peter Medak’s Romeo is Bleeding (1993) + Bob Rafelson’s Black Widow (1987).
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