Comments on: Flashback #60

By: Just Another Film Buff

Just Another Film Buff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:37:08 +0000

Thanks so much, Burton, for your kind words. You’re always welcome…

By: Burton Ridgeway

Burton Ridgeway — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:31:19 +0000

I have to say this is the fourth time I have read your blog and Im loving it! I added your site to my rss reader. Cant wait to see more posts!

By: Favorite Films Of 2009 « The Seventh Art

Favorite Films Of 2009 « The Seventh Art — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:24:04 +0000

[...] ritual of killing his patron-turned-authoritarian father (like his mentor Bertolucci did in The Conformist (1970)) – Hollywood – as his decisive farewell to industrial cinema and an autobiographical [...]

By: Children Of Men « The Seventh Art

Children Of Men « The Seventh Art — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:39:55 +0000

[...] of the themes Bertolucci explored in detail in individual films. The White Ribbon shares with The Conformist (1970) the idea that sexual repression and social conformism may be the prime instigators of [...]

By: The Grand Illousion « The Seventh Art

The Grand Illousion « The Seventh Art — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:49:18 +0000

[...] throughout the film in a manner that recalls the way young Bertolucci handled his mise en scène in The Conformist (1970), which too revolved around faked identities and interchangeable personas and which Tarantino [...]

By: Just Another Film Buff

Just Another Film Buff — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:48:49 +0000

Yes, and I respect him immensely for just that…

By: omar ahmed

omar ahmed — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:07:15 +0000

That’s true and also many still criticise him for not being able to sustain his career but the quality of his output in the seventies was a real cinematic achievement and arguably, his work eclipses that of Scorsese, Spielberg and the rest of the New wave.

By: Just Another Film Buff

Just Another Film Buff — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:04:47 +0000

I don’t exactly want to pin down the word, but Coppola is the kind of guy who can take an inspiration from one place on to a whole new level… The Godfather, The Conversation and Apoc Now have their inspirations, but are masterpieces in their own right IMO…

By: omar ahmed

omar ahmed — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:54:25 +0000

Good write up; without ‘The Conformist’, Coppola would never have taken up the challenge to direct the godfather film for Paramount – the visual look was clearly influenced or imitated? from Bertolucci’s wonderfully astute film.

By: Just Another Film Buff

Just Another Film Buff — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:49:57 +0000

Oh ya… Perhaps this is the film that triggered the slick gangta flicks that were to follow…