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He’s worshipped at the altar of Sergio Leone for as long as he can remember, was more inspired by Brian De Palma than most, and has cited everyone from Mario Bava and Jean-Pierre Melville to Martin ...
The Godfather inspired the gangster movie Once Upon a Time in America, and it is the closest thing fans have to the 1972 ...
Ennio Morricone composed scores that are so good, some can be enjoyed without any visuals, like The Good, the Bad and the ...
Francesco Zippel’s Sergio Leone doc, which premieres on Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival, is the first portrait of the Italian master made with full support of his children Raffaella and ...
Between the pore-rich tightness of his close-ups and the mysterious, patient grandeur of his landscapes, Sergio Leone took the Hollywood-forged myths that enraptured him as a child and created one ...
How could it be that one of the greatest directors known for directing films about the American west was not an American himself? Sergio Leone was born in 1929 in Rome, Italy to parents already ...
ROME – Italy’s Leone Film Group, the company originally founded by spaghetti western master Sergio Leone, made a positive debut on the Milan stock market Wednesday with an IPO geared towards ...
The best way to find a good guy in the westerns of director Sergio Leone is to look for a worse guy. The Italian director’s penchant for blurring the lines between heroes and villains stood in ...
Even with the amount of literature and discussion already devoted to Sergio Leone over the past 40 years, it's hard to overestimate his importance in cinema history. As sole credited director ...