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Something wrong?He stretched gunfights into operatic standoffs, turned squints into drama, and made the American West feel more mythic by filming it in Spain. The spaghetti Western exists because Sergio Leone decided Hollywood had been doing it wrong.
A life in dates
Once Upon a Time in AmericaFilm, Director, Writer1982
Champs-ElyséesSeries1981“Even in the greatest Westerns, the woman is imposed on the action, as a star, and is generally destined to be “had” by the male lead. But she does not exist as a woman.”In their wordsChristopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (1981), p. 129. Quoted in The Worlding1980
Fun Is BeautifulFilm, Producer1979
NDR Talk ShowSeries1977
The CatFilm, Producer1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSeries
Midi PremièreSeries, 19751974“I am showing the Old West as it really was. Cinema takes violence from life. Not the other way around. Americans treat Westerns with too much rhetoric.”In their wordsAs quoted in Hollywood and After: The Changing Face of Movies in America (1974) by Jerzy Toeplitz, p. 141, and in The Pop Sixties: A
Spécial cinémaSeries, 19741973
My Name Is NobodyFilm, Producer1971
Cadet RousselleSeriesSamedi soirSeries1966
The Good, the Bad and the UglyFilm, Director, Writer1964
A Fistful of DollarsFilm, Director, Writer1961
Romulus and RemusFilm, Writer1954
They Stole a TramFilm, Presentatore del concorso1948
Bicycle ThievesFilm, A Seminary Student (uncredited)1929Born3 January 1929Also in Deutsch
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, Even in the greatest Westerns, the woman is imposed on the action, as a star, and is generally destined to be “had” by the male lead. But she does not exist as a woman.
I am showing the Old West as it really was. Cinema takes violence from life. Not the other way around. Americans treat Westerns with too much rhetoric.
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SASergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
CLClint Eastwood: The Last Legend
DUDjango & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
SUSad Hill Unearthed
SLSergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
SWSpanish Western
ILIl était une fois Sergio Leone
ESEastwood Directs: The Untold Story
VPVivaldi, the Red Priest
TWThe Spaghetti West
TSThe Wages of Sin
AVAn Opera of Violence
SDSomething to Do with Death
IBItalian Kings Of B
OLOnce Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
TAThe King of Ads
TMToo MuchOAOnce Upon a Time in America
BVBianco, rosso e VerdoneFBFun Is Beautiful
AAAn Almost Perfect AffairTCThe Cat
AIA Genius, Two Friends, and an IdiotMNMy Name Is Nobody
DSDuck, You Sucker
OWOnce Upon a Time in the WestTUThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly
FMFor a Few Dollars MoreADA Fistful of Dollars
SSSlave Girls of Sheba
TRThe Colossus of RhodesRRRomulus and Remus
TRThe Seven Revenges
TPThe Last Days of Pompeii
SGSign of the Gladiator
ALAphrodite, Goddess of LoveTTThey Stole a Tram
IMIl folle di MarechiaroBTBicycle Thieves110 credits on file
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LCLeçon de CinémaCEChamps-ElyséesNSNDR Talk ShowMPMidi PremièreLDLes Rendez-vous du dimancheSCSpécial cinémaCRCadet RousselleAwards
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Born in Rome on 3 January 1929, Leone grew up in the machinery of Italian cinema and spent years learning before he seized the Western from America and reimagined it. A Fistful of Dollars arrived in 1964 with Clint Eastwood and a style no one had seen: extreme close-ups slammed against vast long shots, violence stretched into ritual. For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly followed in 1965 and 1966, cementing the Dollars Trilogy as a new language for the genre. He moved on to Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968, then Duck, You Sucker! in 1971, before spending over a decade assembling Once Upon a Time in America, released in 1984. Leone died on 30 April 1989, having bent an entire genre to his vision.
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