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Humor is the main ingredient in Giuseppe Tornatore‘s award winning masterpiece Cinema Paradiso (1988) that pulls you into its wonderful world and doesn’t let go. In the small Italian villa of Giancaldo we meet young Salvatore DeVita (Salvatore Cascio) also known as “Toto” who is an altar boy in church. From the outset we see he’s a mischievous little rascal. When the church closes, it becomes a movie theater, which [read...] 
“This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it…then its won.” – R.J. MacReady In Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby‘s sci-fi-horror film The Thing From Another World (1951) the titular Frankenstein-esque monster is a plant creature [read...] 
THE FILM Sergio Leone’s sprawling western epic is not only a masterpiece of pure cinema storytelling but a post-modern tribute to all the westerns he loved. Infused with homages to classics such as High Noon, Johnny Guitar, Winchester 57, The Searchers and many others, Leone used Once Upon A Time in The West as both a re-imagining of the Western myth and a grand celebration of the genre. The films [read...] 
INTRODUCTION Sergio Leone. Whenever I hear that name I think of cinema at its most exhillerating and wildly creative. His take on Westerns single handedly revitalized the genre in the 1960s. His unique Mediterranean – bred post modern, operatic eye for storytelling was something cinema needed very much at the time. Maybe the most special thing about Leone was the fact he truly cherished the larger than life characters that [read...] 
When that movie came out, it changed the world, and Ennio Morricone’s groundbreaking, innovative score was a major reason for that. Mixing sound effects, whistling and a stratocaster guitar blew everybody’s mind. Sergio Leone continued to fame, Clint Eastwood became a worldwide superstar. The movie that started the Spaghetti Western as we know it, this is the theme that opened the movie. Close your eyes, enjoy. [read...] |
   
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