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...Your cover story on Last Tango [Jan. 22] terrified me. A society that spends so much time thinking about, filming and writing about sex obviously does not have much else it considers important enough to occupy...
...recognize that you are not responsible for the fact that Last Tango was produced, and that as a modern, sophisticated and wide-ranging magazine you cannot ignore it. But you certainly are responsible for giving it such supremely prominent, sickeningly detailed coverage...
...Your cover story on Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris [Jan. 22] conveys the false impression that in 1966 I suggested that Brando should quit acting; it includes the sentence "Pauline Kael's dismissal notwithstanding, Brando's colleagues by and large have defended him." My way of dismissing him was to write about him in 1966 as "the most exciting American actor on the screen." to vote for him as best actor of 1967 for Reflections in a Golden Eye. to review him in The New Yorker. Feb. 10. 1968. as "our greatest actor," and, again. March...
Made in 1969 for Italian television, this mesmeric film is only now being released in America, in the wake of the wide acclaim for Bertolucci's The Conformist and in anticipation of the brouhaha over Last Tango in Paris (TIME cover, Jan. 22). Perhaps Tango may not SO much sweep up The Spider's Stratagem in its wake as swamp it. The Spider's Stratagem boasts no superstars in the cast, no odor of brimstone and no heavy hype. It should not need them. Less exotic than The Conformist or Tango, certainly more subtle and contained...
...technique he adopted with his actors in The Conformist and especially in Tango is based on an informal method of psychological investigation. To create a climate conducive to such probing, Bertolucci says, he "mixes the Hollywood studio with the techniques of cinema verite. This permits the best possible conditions for improvisation, and gives the public a continuous sense of risk and danger." It also means, as Bertolucci admits, that "it would be proper to put my analyst in the main titles, because he is the first person to whom I confess the ideas of my films...