Once Upon a Time in the West

Yesterday, I watched "Once Upon a Time in the West" for the umpteenth time, but for the first time on the big screen where it belongs. What follows is a love letter to the movie and to Leone and Morricone in general. I remember I was still in elementary school when my older cousins rented "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" on videotape, and we watched it every afternoon that summer. The movie took on mythical proporti…

A man in search of revenge, a prostitute in search of a new beginning, a ruthless killer and an old wolf with no fixed direction. Hello film and TV lover community, I hope you are very well, the CineTV Contest # 7 takes us to revisit a genre that although it is true that it has been losing popularity, it is still a worthy representative of the seventh art, and the Western genre has left a very rich legacy and worthy…

There is a genre called Spaghetti Western. The term was coined because the western films that were very popular in the United States in the 1960s were made by Italian director Sergio Leone. Of this spaghetti western, director Leone aka The Dollars Trilogy (a film series featuring Clint Eastwood as best actor) is also considered the best, although most critics consider Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) the best. wa…

The author of this review remembers many instances when he had awaited films with great expectations, but few match the circumstances leading to the first viewing of *Once Upon a Time in the West*, the 1968 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone. It could be said that I've been conditioned for this film since I was born. Numerous television shows in former Yugoslavia were using Morricone's score, and later, when…

There is nothing better than a good old western movie. Many times I go through channels and I am able to find some western movies, but I don’t catch them on time and then I have to find other way to watch them from the start. “Once Upon A Time in the West” is a masterpiece by Sergio Leone, who is also known for “The Dollars Trilogy”. The music is from the incredible Ennio Morricone, so the movie don’t stand a chance…

Once Upon a Time in the West is a Italo Western film by Sergio Leone. Major roles in this movie are played by Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards. The film is acknowledged as one of the greatest films ever made. In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically signif…