Movies

February, 1988

Remember puyi? Probably not. So let The Last Emperor (Columbia) illuminate and enchant you with an unforgettable history lesson. It's the sort of epic that has to flash place names and dates on the screen now and then to keep the chronology straight. But Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, filming in modern China with the ancient, splendiferous Forbidden City as a backdrop, retells the tantalizing true story of Emperor Pu Yi, who ascended the throne in 1908, at the age of three, and was depose...