Insisting on accuracy, with film about Italian poet being back to front (8)
I believe the answer is:
pedantic
'insisting on accuracy with' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'film about italian poet being back to front' is the wordplay.
'film' becomes 'pic' (short for picture).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'italian poet being' becomes 'edan' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'back to' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'front' is 't'.
'edan'+'t'='edant'
'pic' placed around 'edant' is 'PEDANTIC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pedantic that I've seen before include "Excessively nit-picking" , "Fussy over detail" , "Excessively scrupulous" , "Overly concerned with insignificant detail" , "quibbling" .)