Presentation of a new, restored version by Ms Laura Napolitano, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Melbourne
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to co-present with Palace Cinemas a new, completely restored version of a movie which inaugurated a new cinema genre, the ‘Western Italian-style’, or Spaghetti Western: For a Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone in 1964. Besides its incontrovertible artistic qualities, the movie has the merit of having launched the acting career of a then still unknown Clint Eastwood, of being accompanied by one of the many, spell-binding movie scores composed by Ennio Morricone and of having rejuvenated a by then ailing Western style. The movie was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, also starring Clint Eastwood.
The films are today known as the Dollars Trilogy and were later released in sequence in the United States in 1967, launching Clint Eastwood’s stellar acting career. In view of the American release, both the director Sergio Leone, composer Ennio Morricone and actor Gian Maria Volonté ‘americanised’ their names, becoming, respectively, Bob Robertson, Dan Savio and Johnny Wels. All the movies were shot on a low budget, the majority of them in Southern Spain, whose landscapes resemble the most celebrated locations of the American Far West.
IIC Members. IIC members are entitled to purchase the tickets at the “Palace Movie Club” rate of $20, both online and directly at the box office upon presentation of a valid IIC membership card.