Sergio Leone
Noah’s Barks pages relating to movie/film director Sergio Leone.
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Once Upon a Time in America
I want to love Once Upon a Time in America (OUaTiA). Sergio Leone‘s sense of scale and ability to capture the landscape have not diminished at all, and there’s a great basic story here with a very cool generational progression, but at times the acting is extremely poor for such a major feature, and the… (read more)
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Once Upon a Time in the West
I never expected any western to approach the quality of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but Once Upon a Time in the West both gave me hope and succeeded. The overstretched beginning is fairly flat, but once Charles Bronson and Jason Robards meet it’s as if the whole movie suddenly goes aflame. Sergio… (read more)
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A Fistful of Dollars
It’s surprising how they both run the same length, as Yojimbo fleshes out its setting and characters much more than A Fistful of Dollars does, perhaps due to Sergio Leone‘s slow, suspenseful pacing. Yojimbo is also funnier. Yojimbo this, Yojimbo that. A Fistful of Dollars is inferior, but it still has plenty of its own… (read more)