Sergio Leone

Once Upon a Time in the West – Review by Wim Wenders

I don’t want to see any more Westerns. This one is the very end, the end of a craft. This one is deadly . . . Leone’s film is completely indifferent towards itself. All it shows the unconcerned viewer is the luxury that enabled it to be made

Once upon a Time in the West (1969) – Review by Dave Kehr

In Leone’s hands, capitalism itself becomes a mythic force, as much a part of the landscape (it’s embodied here by the building of a railroad across the desert) as the horses or mountain ranges. In criticizing the myth — in filling in the economic relationships American westerns have skipped over —Leone expands and enriches it, which is what the best criticism does.

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA – Recensione di Stefano Consiglio [Filmcritica]

«Credevo fosse un’avventura. E invece era la vita… » (J. Conrad) … Riprendendo questa frase nel corso di un’intervista, Sergio Leo­ne si riferiva al tempo trascorso da quando ebbe l’idea di trarre un film dal libro di Harry Grey A mano armata a quando, finalmente il film è riuscito a farlo

SERGIO LEONE INTERVIEWED BY ELAINE LOMENZO

A Fable for Adults by Elaine Lomenzo They asked Claude Lelouch which American director he likes the most and he says. “Sergio Leone!”—Sergio Leone It’s

IL MIO NOME È NESSUNO: GIOCARE COI MITI

Nel film ‘Il mio nome è Nessuno’ di Tonino Valerii – prodotto da Leone – s’incrociano tre universi del western: l’hollywoodiano classico, quello degli anni ’60 e l’italiano comico

Sergio Leone con Ennio Morricone

ENNIO MORRICONE: INTERVIEW (1984)

Ennio Morricone has written some of the cinema’s most- recognizable and best-loved film scores including the recent Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”. Here he is inter­viewed by Sue Adler.

Once Upon a Time in America - Max and Noodles

SERGIO LEONE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH

Peter Babiak on how Leone in “Once Open a Time in America” used an archetypal cultural genre – the gangster film – in order to examine the impact of American cultural myth on American society

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