Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the […]
Ennio Morricone
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One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the most well known titles would include Italian entries like Sergio Leone‘s Duck You Sucker (aka Fistful of Dynamite), Damiano Damiani‘s A Bullet For the […]
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. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]