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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.

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

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