BP051 The Last Emperor (1987)

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and
Tom Salinsky.


Episode 51: The Last Emperor (1987)


Released 1 January 2020


For this episode, we watched The Last Emperor,
written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci from the book by
Puyi and directed by Bertolucci. The stars were John Lone, Joan
Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun. It
won all nine Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Score and Best Adapted Screenplay –
but none of its cast received nominations.


Next time we will be discussing Hamlet. If you
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