Sergio Leone

...last few spoonfuls of Count Chocula. Mann isn't the only guy who knows how to shoot a close-up, of course. Guys like Sergio Leone practically make a sport of it, holding on shots of his actor's eyes as if he were trying to hypnotize us.

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...overly contrived and tonally schizophrenic film that also neglects the contribution of New Zealander Rewi Alley to the story. Sergio Leone's hugely influential 1968 Western stars Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson and Jason...

In this article: David Tennant, Academy Award, Entertainment Weekly, Ryan Nelsen, Doctor, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Henry Fonda, and A Love Story

...username. by Stefanie Lee TV.com Staff Writer 11/17/09 12:00 AM Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, and Charles Bronson star in Sergio Leone's sweeping 1969 spaghetti western. A masterful must-see. The Visitors are issued 100 U.S. visas...

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...World of Epics," a TCM documentary about big-screen spectaculars that screens at 1 p.m., stick around for the real deal: Sergio Leone's three-hour spaghetti Western, starring Henry Fonda as a cold-blooded killer and Charles Bronson as...

In this article: St. Louis, St. Louis International Film Festival, Webster University, William Kunstler, and Cinematic Titanic

...drama Columbo , and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart . VIDEO REVIEW: Sergio Leone rides again It seems remarkable that Italian director Sergio Leone became a legend at all,...

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...confrontation with an elongated hepcat security-guard rat (with the stabbing voice of Willem Dafoe) is scored and staged like a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western. Not even Quentin Tarantino would have the audacity to assemble a soundtrack in...

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...walk the walk. The film starts with the caption "Once upon a time in occupied France," which clues you into both Quentin's love of Sergio Leone, and the fact that this is an imaginary World War II, one about as close to reality as, say,...

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...starters. How seriously are they meant to be taken? Depends on who you're talking about and the topic. When (Italian director) Sergio Leone did 'Once Upon a Time in the West,' was that what the west was really like? Or was it his version - the...

In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Universal Studios, Derivative, Filmmaker, and Melanie Laurent

...Sunday, February 25, 2007. Morricone first rose to worldwide acclaim through his teaming with friend and former classmate Sergio Leone for a trio of groundbreaking film scores (Morricone hates the term "Spaghetti Westerns"). Beginning...

In this article: Ennio Morricone, Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, World War II, A Fistful of Dollars, and Mario Bava

Spaghetti Westerns Television paid the bills, but Eastwood longed to return to film. He traveled to Italy, where director Sergio Leone was producing a series of highly violent, low-budget Westerns for European markets. Eastwood starred in...

In this article: Clint Eastwood, Oscar, San Francisco, California, Korean War, Dirty Harry films, and Ambush at Cimarron Pass