In the HBO film ''You Don't Know Jack,'' there is something both familiar and unsettling in the man's visage when it first comes into view. It's hard to place precisely, but after taking in the obstinate rhetoric, the throwback glasses and the wan smile, we think we know this guy. Oh yeah, Dr. Death, the man with the mortally friendly bedside...

The title of Barry Levinson's new movie, ''What Just Happened,'' is not phrased as a question, but if it were it would demand another question in response: ''Who cares?'' I'm asking in earnest. Who, exactly, do Mr. Levinson and the screenwriter, Art Linson, expect to invest time and interest -- to say nothing of thought or feeling -- in this...

Bugsy Released in 1991, ''Bugsy'' may have been a film with too many fathers. Warren Beatty, who co-produced this dark, sensual, morally conflicted biography of the gangster Bugsy Siegel and played him with a Tony Curtis-like striver's elegance, was of course the director of the acclaimed ''Reds'' (1981). He was also a contributor to the...
Barry Levinson (født 6. april 1942 i Baltimore, Maryland, USA) er en amerikansk filminstruktør og -producent.
Med baggrund som skuespiller og manuskriptforfatter for fjernsyn debuterede han som spillefilminstruktør med miljøskildringen Diner (1982), henlagt til hjembyen Baltimore. Derefter fulgte bl.a. ungdomsfilmen Young Sherlock Holmes (Frygtens pyramide, 1985), komedien Tin Men (Plattenslagerne, 1987), og Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), en komedie henlagt til Saigon under Vietnamkrigen. Rain Man (1988), hvor Dustin Hoffman leverede en virtuos rollepræstation som autist, vandt flere Oscar-priser. I Bugsy (1991) fortalte han historien om gangsteren Bugsy Siegel, med Warren Beatty i titelrollen. Han har også instrueret Sleepers (1996) med Robert De Niro.