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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
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Leone, Sergio |
Date of birth
3 January 1929, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Date of death
30 April 1989, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 - April 30, 1989)
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Vincenzo Leone, one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Waleran.
Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and Americans working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time).
Towards the end of the 1950s he started writing screenplays, and began directing after taking over Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (1959) in mid-shoot after its original director fell ill.
His first solo feature, Colosso di Rodi, Il (1961) was a routine Roman epic, but his second feature Per un pugno di dollari (1964), a shameless remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961) caused a revolution.
“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”
Although it wasn't the first spaghetti Western, it was far and away the most successful, and shot former TV cowboy Clint Eastwood to stardom (Leone wanted Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson but couldn't afford them).
The two sequels, Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) and Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966), were shot on much higher budgets and were even more successful, though his masterpiece, _C'era una volta il West (1969), in which Leone finally worked with Fonda and Bronson, was mutilated by Paramount Pictures and flopped at the US box office.
He directed Giù la testa (1971) reluctantly, and turned down offers to direct Godfather, The (1972) in favour of his dream project, which became Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
He died in 1989 after preparing an even more expensive Soviet co-production on the World War II Siege of Leningrad.
Selected filmography of
Leone, Sergio
1984
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
1971
Duck, You Sucker | A Fistful of Dynamite | Giu La Testa (1971)
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West | C'era una volta il West (1968)
1967
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1967)
1965
For a Few Dollars More | Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
1964
A Fistful of Dollars | Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
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