The Art Of Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West: A Critical Appreciation
Rummaging Through the Dollar Bin (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Fibonaccis released an artsy 'best of' compilation that collects nothing to be proud of unless you are, of course, the band.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
CLINT Eastwood is not just a man; he is a nameless vigilante, a detective, bare-knuckle boxer, Secret Service agent, and Academy Award-winning director. His laconic one-liners can be heard in numerous languages, preceding the demise of another villain. Clint Eastwood Icon paints a fascinating portrait of its subject through the art for his films. With more than 400 unique pieces, this trove gathers...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Marina Cicogna is one of Italy's premier film producers, working with the likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Zeffirelli and Sergio Leone on films such as Once…
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Ever since Sergio Leone made his pair of 'Once Upon a Time..." movies (a masterful pair of films at that) other writers and directors have cribbed the title for their own work. Jet Li gained popularity with Once Upon a Time in China. Robert Rodriguez obviously nodded to Leone with Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Quentin Tarantino did the same with the title card and early tagline for Inglourious...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There are a multitude of ways in which we can study film: Aesthetically, technologically, culturally, economically and so forth. The value of any given film for the discipline of film studies could be seen as lying in the extent to which it will support different interpretive perspectives. A film which can be looked at both for its aesthetics and for its wider significance is arguably thereby more...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Here's a different way of thinking about well-known movies: imagine each one is a stop on a subway line! Designed by David Honnorat and posted at Vodkaster , the cinematic subway map is based on the top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users on June 19 (which, I suppose, is why The Hangover made it). Honnorat created 16 different imaginary subway lines, including "Universally Acclaimed Masterpiece,"...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I think the mania for Sergio Leone is stronger than it's ever been. It's undoubtedly due to the championing of Quentin Tarantino, and films like Sukiyaki Western Django and The Good, the Bad and the Weird , which are driving fans to seek out where they borrowed their serapes and squints from. There also seems to simply be a hunger for good adventure stories and rugged antiheroes, and there's no better...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
With this animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, director Wes Anderson moves from quirky films for adults, such as The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenbaums , to imaginative children's fare.
PreZ who? (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Just wanted to shoot out a quick review of this game cause I think it kinda went under the radar for most people. The best way I can describe this game is if you take all the good westerns youve ever seen (sergio leone movies) and sprinkle on a little bit of indiana jones you get [...]
Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of... (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I've always enjoyed Westerns, for the most part. I've been trying to think of a Western that I actively disliked, and I've been unsuccessful; the best I can do is find Westerns that aren't my cup of tea, like The Searchers and the 'spaghetti Westerns' of Sergio Leone. But every Western I've ever watched has been, at least, admirable or entertaining on some level. Most recently I watched 3:10 to Yuma...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"The public expresses a range of feelings about the news concerning the war in Afghanistan: a majority (56%) often feels that "it seems like the same news about the war in Afghanistan all the time, nothing ever really changes"; 42% say they do not often feel this way. Nearly as many (53%) say they do not always have enough background information to follow the news about Afghanistan....
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Film Reviews: With a barrage of colorful f/x, flamboyant performances and outlandish sets, Gallic oater is about as close to a traditional Western as Paris is to Dodge City.
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975) Director/Co-Screenwriter: Dario Argento By Roderick Heath This entry is part of the Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon hosted by Kevin J. Olson of Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies. If there’s a problem with Suspiria, often...
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
There was probably no better year to be a kid going to the movies than 1984. It seems like I might have spent most of the year at two theaters in northwest Houston: the AMC North Oaks 6 and a six screen General Cinemas theater at the gargantuan Willowbrook Mall. Willowbrook featured countless retail stores. Toys [...]
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
When Joe at This Distracted Globe put the call out for contributors to his Class of 1984 blog-a-thon , I'd just picked up the 2-disc edition of 'Once Upon a Time in America' for a song. It had been a while - quite a while - since I'd seen it. I'd pretty much forgotten most of the narrative beyond the scenes in the anti-heroes' childhood. I figured Joe's blog-a-thon was the perfect opportunity to re-approach...
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xaviefsa | 01/13/2009
Saltillo, a small dusty town south of the Mexican border, caught in a war of greed and corruption. A man named Bishop returns home after his parents are executed at the hands of a ruthless drug lord El Chilango. He swears to avenge the deaths of his loved ones and take down every person involved at the cost of losing himself and his new love Lucia, the wife of his new arch rival El Chilango. A modern...
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