Virtual Film Club

Program Type:

Film Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Virtual Film Club

Each month we pick a culturally or historically significant film for library patrons to watch and discuss. Watch the film on your own time, then meet with our virtual film club to discuss the film on Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom Invites will be sent out via email.

Event Details

This month's film is The Conformist (1970), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Additional Resources:

GENERAL

Turner Classic Movies page: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71413/the-conformist#overview

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTGqcn-dJk

 

REVIEWS

Hal Hinson, Washington Post (1994): https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theconformistrhinson_a0a873.htm

Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending (2015): https://www.alternateending.com/2015/07/the-impression-of-normalcy.html

Aja Romano, Vox (2018): https://www.vox.com/2018/12/3/18114764/bertolucci-the-conformist-plato-shadows-cinematography

Dennis Harvey, 48Hills (2023): https://48hills.org/2023/04/a-strange-sardonic-art-deco-masterpiece-bertoluccis-the-conformist-returns/

Noah Gittell, CityPaper (2023): https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/592670/50-years-later-and-newly-restored-the-conformist-remains-frightfully-urgent/

Bruce Isaacs, Close-Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzoGk8XBn4 (8 mins) An evaluation of some of Bertulucci’s effects in ‘The Conformist’

The director discusses his movie (about 4½ minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biitl4XZLA8

Jalon Watts, A Shot by Shot Visual Essay  (about 15½ minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnSNl5SmAg

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR -- Bernardo Bertolucci

Webpage, Bernardo Bertolucci Foundation: https://bernardobertolucci.org/?lang=en

Senses of Cinema entry: http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/bertolucci.html

Jeremy Isaacs (BBC) interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20060510062426/http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/bernardo_bertolucci_513.htm

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: Retrospective appreciation (2018): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/26/bernardo-bertolucci-last-tango-paris-brilliant-last-emperor-of-highbrow-cinema

Bilge Ebiri (Vulture), ‘The Complicated Legacy of Bernardo Bertulucci (2018): https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/the-complicated-legacy-of-bernardo-bertolucci.html

MISCELLANEOUS

Suite of music from the soundtrack – composer: Georges Delerue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adoa_L-rYRU   (about 6 minutes)

 

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