Sergio Leone

...the Bad and the Ugly, had a falling-out later on. Leone had asked Wallach to play a role in his upcoming film, A Fistful of Dynamite, but the actor explained he had a scheduling conflict. After much pleading Wallach finally relented and...

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...place on a Culver City soundstage. The film is partly an hommage to spaghetti westerns like Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which Tarantino has called the "best-directed movie of all time." Inglourious Basterds, which...

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...Jun and many others. Zhang Jizhong's favorite Hollywood movies include Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, the Pirates of the Caribbean film series '', and Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. His favorite Chinese...

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...Sato, Teruyuki Kagawa and Masato Sakai in Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django. " Sergio Leone Meets Reservoir Dog in Japanese Pastiche "Sukiyaki Western Django," the latest offering from the protean and prolific Japanese...

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...encyclopedic movie references and streams of self-conscious dialogue. The whistling on the soundtrack comes straight from the Sergio Leone catalog via the composer Ennio Morricone, and the American avenger, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), is...

In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, and Pulp Fiction

...woman (Claudia Cardinale). The film has an air of heartlessness about it: Leone seems not to care for the lore of Hollywood westerns, but neither does he have much of a point to make by caricaturing that lore. Nevertheless, it's a wonderful...

In this article: Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Ennio Morricone, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Monument Valley, and Hollywood

...insists on it. Appaloosa isn't a revisionist western, like the Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone films of the 1960s and '70s, which revitalized the genre and pretty much wore it out; this one is ordinary and borderline ornery. It lacks the...

In this article: Appaloosa, Ed Harris, Renee Zellweger, Jackson Pollock, Jeremy Irons, and Viggo Mortensen

...to a piece of dialogue that had just been spoken. Leone's close-ups are more akin to portraits, often lit with Renaissance type lighting effects and are pieces of design in their own right. The film's music was written by Ennio Morricone,...

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...studios. When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic, The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film. As a result,...

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