Bernardo Bertolucci (born 1940) is Italy's most famous living film director, an heir to the country's tradition of cinema auteurs. His films, which include such modern classics as "The Conformist" (1970), "Last Tango in Paris" (1972), "The Last Emperor" (1987), "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), "Stealing Beauty" (1996) and "The Dreamers" (2003), offer a wild blend of leftist politics, history, literature, psychoanalysis and sexuality. Beginning with Bertolucci's...