Toni Servillo plays the president of Italy, who is staid to a fault (just like the movie), though with hidden depths.

The point is, Paolo Sorrentino’s movies — especially the ones about Italy — can be a little opaque if you don’t get all the frames of reference. It’s easy to watch his Oscar winner “The Great Beauty” ...

Paolo Sorrentino discusses Venice Film Festival opener 'La Grazia,' in which his male muse Toni Servillo plays a lovable ...

A review of Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia, the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival, about the last months of a ...

Michael Caine will always be known for his role as Alfred in Christopher Nolan ’s Batman movies, but over 30 years before he ...

No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney. Twenty-seven years ago he attended his first Venice Film ...

No spoilers, but Chris Pine speaks fluent Italian in Carolina Cavalli's new absurdist Venice Film Festival dramedy The ...

Aisha (2010) was inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma. Set in the world of Delhi’s elite, it offered a stylish reinterpretation of ...

Amadeus, Lawrence of Arabia, and There Will Be Blood are all among the absolute best period movies that deserve to be in the ...

The 1978 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

But his screen career was going nowhere until he was cast as a sidekick in TV's Rawhide, and he was 37 when the three Italian Westerns he made with director Sergio Leone finally made him a movie ...