The second installment in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western classic DOLLARS TRILOGY, For A Few Dollars More will be released on BluRay by Kino Lorber on March 26th. BUY FROM AMAZON Synopsis: Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory’s most treacherous bandit. But […]
Sergio Leone
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Here at Furious Cinema we love westerns, especially the spaghetti westerns of the 60s and 70s. They were a unique stylized European reinvention of the genre. They took the Wild West stories of yesteryear and turned them right on their ear. The most famous director to make these movies was […]
After decades of waiting for a definitive version of the late great director Sergio Leone’s final masterpiece ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, we’re extremely thrilled to announce Warner Home Video will be releasing the 1984 gangster epic in a brand new remastered Once Upon a Time in America Extended […]
Following the massive success of Enzo Barboni’s spaghetti western comedy They Call Me Trinity (1971) which starred Terence Hill, Director Tonino Valerii (Day of Anger) teamed up with the actor on a project. The result was My Name is Nobody (1973), which co-starred the great American actor Henry Fonda who […]
Every film fan has those extra special movies that stay with them through the thick and thin. These are the kinds that you may have discovered at a young age and decades later you still love them as much or hopefully even more than you did the first time you […]
Sergio Leone‘s sprawling western epic Once Upon a Time in the West 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]