Revolutionary books consumed by new Crucible director (10)

'director' is the definition.
(Bertolucci matches up with the definition director)

'revolutionary books consumed by new crucible' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' says the letters should be written in reverse (letters revolve around).
'books' becomes 'OT' (abbreviation for Old Testament).
'consumed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters get consumed).
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ot' backwards is 'to'.
'crucible' is an anagram of 'berlucci'.
'to' going into 'berlucci' is 'BERTOLUCCI'.