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mariocki · 4 months

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I sopravvissuti della città morta (The Ark of the Sun God, 1984)

"How do you do, Rick?"

"Not bad, it's a miracle I'm still alive. You could have warned me it was so risky. Roger Moore would have been better suited for such a mission."

"Oh, you're not too bad - but definitely not as strapping."

#I sopravvissuti della città morta #the ark of the sun god #italian cinema #1984 #antonio margheriti #giovanni paolucci #giovanni simonelli #david warbeck #john steiner #susie sudlow #luciano pigozzi #ricardo palacios #achille brugnini #aytekin akkaya #süleyman turan #aldo tamborelli #alberto moriani #adventure film #had to use the above quote bc of the deliberate injoke (Warbeck famously spent the 70s on a retainer as a potential replacement for Moore #in the Bond series‚ should he drop out of the role or become in some way incapacitated). this is less Bond and more (much more) Indiana #Jones: yes it's another classic Italian ripoff of a wildly successful US commodity. director Margheriti secured regular Brits abroad #Warbeck and Steiner‚ flew out to Turkey and shot one of the handsomest films of his long career; the locations are stunning‚ the temple #sets ingeniously impressive‚ there's car and helicopter chases galore. ok so some of the car chases are shot using miniatures.. but if #anything that just adds to the unlikely charm. visually this may be a winner but scripting and plotting aren't quite so tight. tbh even #at just a little over 90 minutes this still somehow feels a bit strung out‚ taking an age to get to the temple business and with far too #much toing and froing before it. still‚ the Brits are on good form‚ and even better are Pigozzi and Palacios as supporting treasure hunters #who routinely steal their every scene (and quickly become the characters you actually care about once the bullets start flying in the #violent finále). a fun dumb adventure time but hardly an essential entry in the Italian genre canon

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles, 2019) Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujin, Luis Gnecco, Cristina Banegas, María Ucedo, Renato Scarpa, Sidney Cole, Achille Brugnini. Screenplay: Anthony McCarten. Cinematography: César Charlone. Production design: Mark Tildesley. Film editing: Fernando Stutz. Music: Bryce Dessner. I admit that there are two establishments I find utterly useless: the British royal family and the papacy. But that both somehow never fail to grab my interest whenever their internal workings are exposed to view, as in the TV series The Crown and Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope and its sequel, The New Pope. Fernando Meirelles's The Two Popes has some of the juicy insiderness of those series, but it feels hamstrung a bit by the fact that the relationship between Benedict XVI and Francis is an ongoing story. At the end of the film, Benedict and Francis have achieved a kind of rapprochement, but news stories since the movie's release have suggested there's a lot of continuing tension between the two. Where The Two Popes works best is in its portrait of the younger Francis's life in Argentina, in which Juan Minujin takes over the role from the Oscar-nominated Jonathan Pryce. I would have liked a corresponding treatment of the more controversial past of Joseph Ratzinger, the young Benedict, but that might have steered the film, already more than two hours long, in the direction of a miniseries. Anthony Hopkins also received an Oscar nomination (as supporting actor, though he receives top billing) for his performance as Benedict, and he manages to capture some of the narrow-eyed conservatism of that pope, which just left me wanting more.

#The Two Popes #Fernando Meirelles #Anthony Hopkins #Jonathan Pryce

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scenesandscreens · 4 years

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The Two Popes (2019)

Director - Fernando Meirelles, Cinematography - César Charlone

"We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all the time, all the time, the real danger was inside. Inside with us."

#scenesandscreens #the two popes #Josello Bella #Germán de Silva #federico torre #Achille Brugnini #Thomas D. Williams #Willie Jonah #Maria Ucedo #Lisandro Fiks #sidney cole #Luis Gnecco #anthony hopkins #jonathan pryce #fernando meirelles #César Charlone

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mrfahrenheit92 · 4 years

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#Il Divo #Paolo Sorrentino #Toni Servillo #Anna Bonaiuto #Giulio Bosetti #Flavio Bucci #Carlo Buccirosso #Giorgio Colangeli #Paolo Graziosi #Massimo Popolizio #Aldo Ralli #Lorenzo Gioielli #Achille Brugnini #Domenico Centamore

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badgaymovies · 5 years

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Mahogany by #BerryGordy starring #DianaRoss, "most of the film is an excuse for the scenes of glamorous photo shoots." BERRY GORDY Bil's rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 1975. Motown Productions, Nikor Productions…

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thecraggus · 4 years

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Netflix's The Two Popes (2019) explores the fallibility of the infallible.

Netflix's The Two Popes (2019) explores the fallibility of the infallible. #Review

It would seem to be something of a contradiction in terms to deliver a warm and whimsical drama about the leadership of the Catholic Church during some of its most tumultuous years but that’s exactly what Fernando Meirelles’ gently absorbing chronicle of this archly ceremonial game of Papal thrones.

Essentially a biographical film tracing the ordination of Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and…

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myshowzip · 10 years

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Phantom of Death

Phantom of Death: Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici’s girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can’t be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in…

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badgaymovies · 4 years

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, The Two Popes by #FernandoMeirelles starring #JonathanPryce and #AnthonyHopkins, "At times very smart, at other times a bit sluggish". FERNANDO MEIRELLES Bil's rating (out of 5): BBB.5. United Kingdom/Italy, 2019. …

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myshowzip · 10 years

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Phantom of Death

Phantom of Death: Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici’s girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can’t be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in…

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