A New York is back to talk about one of the most influential families of cinema and Italian culture of the twentieth century with the presentation of the volume Bertolucci A–Z, scheduled on April 15, 2026 at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of New York University. The event celebrates the 85th anniversary of the birth of Bernardo Bertolucci, a director among the most recognized internationally, author, among others, of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, awarded with nine Oscars in 1988. The meeting, introduced by Stefano Albertini, director of the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, will be accompanied by the projection of some short films related to the production of bertolucciana.
The book, published by Electa and edited by Michele Guerra, current mayor of Parma and scholar of cinema, is part of the series “A-Z” and proposes an encyclopaedic format built on 85 voices, so many years that Bertolucci would accomplish in 2026. The project is not limited to the figure of the director, but it reconstructs an entire cultural genealogy: the one that starts from the poet Attilio Bertolucci and arrives to the sons Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci, also he director and screenwriter. The voices are entrusted to a heterogeneous network of contributors – academics, critics, historical collaborators, actors and directors – including Walter Veltroni, Marco Tullio Giordana and Jeremy Thomas, British producer who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci. There is a plural story that crosses cinema, literature and Italian political-cultural context from the second post-war period to the 2000s.
The presentation will take place, among others, Valentina Ricciardelli, president of the Fondazione Bernardo Bertolucci, the same War as curator, Andrea Ciccarelli della Ragusa Foundation, the artistic director of the Teatro Regio di Parma Alessio Vlad and Antonio Monda, professor at NYU and central figure in the promotion of Italian culture in the United States. The event will take place in English and you can book at this link.
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