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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...] For the last several years Hollywood has been pumping out one terrible remake/reboot/retread after another. The “R” words are constantly on everyones tongues. It’s like there’s some strange disease spreading in the studio production offices that’s wiping out the last bits of creativity and integrity Hollywood has. Then again, Hollywood has always been about commerce over art. Lets face it, if every movie they green-lit was a remake and still [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...] 
I have always been fascinated by a particular sub-sub-sub genre of American Cinema, that of the European expatriate (or visitor). I am not talking about Italian-American filmmakers like Scorsese, Capra, or Coppola. I am talking about really successful European filmmakers, who at one point shortly made it to the American shores, made a film or two, and left again (or died, in Leone’s case). Now, there are not a lot [read...] |
   
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