Links:

• Fistful-of-leone.com
• Images of Italian director Sergio Leone
• Who2 Profile: Sergio Leone
• Senses of Cinema: Sergio Leone
• Trilogy Website

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Sergio Leone by Michael Carlson

Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death by Christopher Frayling

Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (Cinema and Society) by Christopher Frayling

RETURNING FOR ONE DAY ONLY! FEBRUARY 7 WED, 2007 (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

(1964) Clint Eastwood can take a joke, but unfortunately his mule can’t, and mayhem ensues in the first of Sergio Leone’s “Man with No Name” series, with the non-eponymous hero hiring himself out to each of the trigger-happy factions battling in the same desolate, seemingly unpopulated desert town. The beginning of the “spaghetti Western” cycle, and the star-making role for erstwhile “Rawhide” second lead Eastwood. The producers of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo sued for plagiarism, though, as Leone pointed out, the story was essentially Goldoni’s 18th-century play The Servant of Two Masters — plus killings. Followed by For a Few Dollars More (see Feb. 15) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (see Feb. 16 and 17, 2007).
3:50, 7:30

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The “Man With No Name” Marathon

(SEPARATE ADMISSION FOR EACH FILM)

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS 4:20

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE 6:20

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 1:00, 8:50

RETURNING FOR ONE DAY ONLY! FEBRUARY 15 THU, 2007

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE

(1965) Weak moment for Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name, as Lee Van Cleef’s ex- Reb officer proves range can beat speed in a gunfight — but then they team up to hunt ruthless killer Gian Maria Volonté and all that bounty money. Most parodic of the trilogy, with highlights including Volonté’s electrifying prison breakout (a stunt he’d repeat in Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge); Eastwood keeping score — by bounty money tallies — of the body count; and Van Cleef striking a match off the hunched back of . . .Klaus Kinski!
2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

RETURNING FOR TWO DAYS ONLY! FEBRUARY 16/17 FRI/SAT, 2007

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

(1966) “If you’re gonna shoot, shoot! Don’t talk.” Lee Van Cleef’s icy bounty hunter (“The Bad”), Eli Wallach’s Mexican bandito (“The Ugly”) and Clint Eastwood’s con man (“The Good”) contend with each other and with battling Civil War armies in their relentless search for buried gold. Leone’s epic Western (accompanied by — Hwah, WAH, Wah — perhaps Ennio Morricone’s greatest score) conjures up opera, horse opera, the bullfight arena, and the blackest of black humor. For this new version, MGM took the recent Italian restoration, including more than 15 minutes not in the already-classic original U.S. release, and brought Eastwood and Wallach back to the sound studios to dub themselves for these previously un-Englished sequences.
1:30, 4:30, 7:30

• THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY Photo Gallery
• Click here to read Elvis Mitchell's review of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY from The New York Times
• Click here to read Michael Atkinson's review of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY from The Village Voice
• Click here to read Michael Sragow's review of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY from The New Yorker

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