Maria Schneider

The last in this short series of films rated NC-17 is arguably the most controversial—the film that has sparked the most debate and engraved itself in the minds of so many viewers and critics. Like Midnight Cowboy (1969), Last Tango in Paris (1972) was released before NC-17 was in the MPAA’s rating repertoire, so it …

Sometimes things come together in and around a movie in such a way – like an alignment of the planets – that the gravitational pull it exerts on the collective cultural consciousness is out of all proportion to its actual mass.  Last Tango in Paris (1972) was that kind of movie; of its time, at just the …