WHEN Bernardo Bertolucci was asked in 1996 if he knew that artists always put themselves in their work, he responded by quoting an author he refused to identify: ''We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.'' These words are spoken by a...

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...

'The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen' Before the digital revolution, Hollywood's most spectacular special effects were not created by programmers working in carefully coordinated tandem in production houses around the world but by one man, Ray Harryhausen, effectively playing by himself in his own sandbox. Mr. Harryhausen, still active at 84,...
Bernardo Bertolucci (født 16. marts 1941) er en italiensk forfatter og filminstruktør.
Blandt hans film kan fremhæves Sidste tango i Paris (1973), 1900 (1976), Den sidste kejser (1987) og Lille Buddha (1993).