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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
May 31, 2011
Paramount Pictures (paramount.com)
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The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis inSergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) Once upon a Time in the West. After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from A Fistful of Dollars to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly),
Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life,
horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake:
this is the wide, wide West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed
version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian
cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the
story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes
that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed,
black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was:
"There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her
... and one to kill her.") Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as
if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as
if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley. --Jim Emerson
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