Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 2: “Last Tango in Paris” (1972)

This is the second part of an eight-part series about difficult movies. 

Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 3 will focus on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 4 will focus on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 will focus on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 6 will focus on Martin Scorsese’s “Last Temptation of Christ”. Part 7 will focus on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza's “2000 Mules”.

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Referenced media:

• “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
• “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (Bob Rafelson, 1981)
• “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959)
• “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
• “Behind the Green Door” (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972)
• “And God Created Woman” (Roger Vadim, 1956)
• “The Getaway” (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
• “Across 110th Street” (Barry Shear, 1972)
• “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
• “The Harder They Come” (Perry Henzell, 1973)
• “Day for Night” (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
• “Soylent Green” (Richard Fleischer, 1973)
• “The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973)
• “Schlock” (John Landis, 1973)

Audio quotation:

• “Last Tango in Paris” (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)