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How you situate Sergio Leone’s epic, acerbic A Fistful of Dynamite within the filmmaker’s larger body of work just might depend on which title it bears when you watch it. The original Italian title, Giù la testa, is probably best rendered by the thematically appropriate Keep Your Head Down, but Leone insisted the film go out under the looser translation Duck, You Sucker! It’s a line that recurs several times throughout the film, one that Leone insisted was authentic American slang of the era, though clearly it isn’t any such thing.

The replacement title A Fistful of Dynamite attempts to link it with Leone’s earlier A Fistful of Dollars, but this one gets far darker and more serious than the more “innocent” tales of adventure that form the Dollars trilogy. Probably the most appropriate title was the one applied to it by the French: Once Upon a Time…...

Title: The Great Beauty Director: Paolo Sorrentino Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, Isabella Ferrari, Franco Graziosi, Giorgio Pasotti, Massimo Popolizio, Sonia Gessner, Anna della Rosa, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Ivan Franek, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dario Cantarelli, Lillo Petrolo, Luciano Virgilio, Giusi Merli, Anita Kravos, Giulio Brogi, Fanny Ardant. From the 30s to the 60s Italian Cinema was known worldwide, acclaimed, praised and represented a model of beauty. Today very few Italian movie directors have managed to establish themselves beyond their mother country, genuinely moving audiences and critics. The Neapolitan Paolo Sorrentino in these past few years has  [ Read More ]

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We have an exclusive featurette from the dramatic comedy We Have a Pope, which is currently available on SundanceNow, as well as IFC Films Video on Demand, Amazon Streaming, PS3 Playstation Unlimited, Xbox Zune, Google Play and YouTube.

Michel Piccoli stars as Melville, a cardinal who is unexpectedly elected as the new Pope. Go behind-the-scenes of this indie with commentary by director Nanni Moretti.

We Have A Pope - Exclusive Featurette

Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room, Caro diario) joins forces with the great French actor Michel Piccoli (Contempt, I'm Going Home) to tell the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he's presented to the faithful in St. Peter's Square. To prevent a world wide crisis, the Vatican's spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed,...

Title: We Have a Pope Director: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi, Enrico Ianniello An amiable comedy import at once thoughtful and low-key, multi-hyphenate Nanni Moretti’s Italian-language “We Have a Pope” takes an unlikely subject — the aftermath of the election of a new pontiff, and the swirl of self-doubt surrounding the newly infallible voice of God on Earth — and turns it into something rich, surprising and altogether rewarding. At the Vatican conclave to select the new pope, Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli, of “Contempt” and “Belle de Jour”) emerges as a surprise candidate on a fourth or fifth ballot. Caught off guard upon [ Read More ]...

Title: We Have a Pope Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Director: Nanni Moretti Screenwriter: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 3/1/12 Opens: April 6, 2012 We Have a Pope As an actor, Michel Piccoli is one of the world’s gems with a résumé stretching back to 1954. But there is little he can do to rescue a film about upper levels of the Catholic Church that is devoid of bite and that uses forced humor such as the idea that (tee hee) even Cardinals may want a cappuccino and even a college stacked with men who’d consider [ Read More ]...