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  Once Upon a Time in the West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Once Upon a Time in the West (originally released in Italy under the title C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 Western film directed by Sergio Leone, considered by many to be his "greatest film".
Leone said that his last three films, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon A Time In America, were a trilogy based on "the three periods that touched America".
West may contain several subtle references to this film, including a low angle shot of a shrieking train rushing towards the screen in the opening scene, and the shot of the train pulling into the Sweetwater station at the end of the film.
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 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION DVD
Baudrillard's rush to say something definitive on the subject of Once Upon a Time in the West is, if not entirely justifiable, then understandable, since his homeland is the only country in the world in which the film screened unexpurgated on a regular basis--the nation's intelligentsia weren't about to take that for granted.
Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West - 2.30:1
Once Upon a Time in the West finally arrives on DVD in Region 1 in a 2-disc "Special Collector's Edition" from Paramount that recycles the content of their R2 package.
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 The DVD Journal | Reviews : Once Upon a Time in the West
By the time the train arrives with an abrupt shriek, as if materializing out of nowhere, the scene has occupied space that would normally be given up to exposition and character development.
Once his credentials as a killer are impressively displayed by his swift dispatching of his would-be assassins, only the reason for his vengeance needs explicated.
Paramount presents Once Upon a Time in the West in a gorgeous anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) that is nothing less than miraculous to anyone who has seen a badly faded print of the film in recent years.
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 Once Upon a Time in the West: Special Collector's Edition (1968): Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale - ...
At once expanding the frontier and accelerating its diminution, the railroad is the movie's central metaphor and the hinge on which the plot turns.
By the time of Once Upon a Time in the West's release, Leone's hyperbolic style had become embedded in the genre's genetic code -- remarkable considering it was only his fourth western.
Once Upon a Time in the West nearly succumbs to elephantiasis, but its depth of feeling ultimately rescues it.
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 Review: Once Upon a Time in the West - Cinematical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Once Upon the Time in the West is nearly three hours of posturing, staring, and plotting, often shot in extreme close-up.
Excellent watched it four times, and each time I see Once upon a Time in the West it is as fresh as the first tim around.
Once upon a time in the west is only surpassed by Leone's last masterpiece-Once upon a time in America.
www.cinematical.com /2005/09/20/review-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west   (1956 words)

  
 Once Upon A Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West ranks somewhere on the top 10 list of the all-time best westerns, and not just in my opinion.
Rivaling OUATITW as the ultimate western is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the third in the Dollars trilogy, but really a prequel, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach.
Paramount presents Once Upon a Time in the West in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen.
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 Once Upon A Time In The West
After deciding to move on to the American offers that were calling, he made arguably his finest work, “Once Upon A Time In The West.” A towering achievement that was tragically underestimated during its initial release, Paramount Pictures has finally released a 165-minute version on a double-disc collector’s edition DVD.
The social pulse of the world and particularly the USA was in turmoil in 1968, and “Once Upon A Time In The West” reflects that in many ways.
“Once Upon A Time In The West” deserves to be viewed as large as its panoramic Monument Valley shots.
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 EUFS: Once Upon a Time in the West
Not just the best Spaghetti western nor one of the greatest westerns but also one of the greatest films period, Sergio Leone's masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West is a complex, multi-faceted film that remains as enjoyable on the tenth viewing as the first one.
The direction can be taken as an essay in film form, Leone combining his earlier Dollars experiments in time and space with the idea of a composed film, developing his mise-en-scene around Ennio Morricone's pre-existing scratch score.
Unlike Frank, you don't have to wait "until the moment of dying" to know: Once Upon a Time in the West is a vital, must-see film.
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 slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Once Upon a Time in the West
The film, about four lives headed on a collision course in a grimy, ramshackle town of the Western plains, is set against the backdrop of the encroaching railroad, which promises to bring civilization to this unruly, harsh country.
Still, even though West's pensive, tragic romanticism recalls vintage Bertolucci, and its abundant use of visual and aural signifiers brings to mind Argento, the film's seductive interplay between image and sound—a relationship that would reach its apex with the director's final film Once Upon a Time in America—is trademark Leone.
West recognizes that Morton is only the first in what will be a long line of industrialists plundering the land, and that the future he brings is no more distasteful, and might be slightly more tolerable, than the ugliness, corruption, and immorality of the old world embodied by Frank.
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 Once Upon A Time In The West
Once Upon a Time in the West is, in my opinion, the greatest western ever to be made.
In ordinary opera though, it is the musical beauty that is important, yet the Once Upon a Time series, the quality of the music is matched and even surpassed by the incredible direction.
Usually when they show it, as with most of their movies, they will show a pan and scan version in the daytime, but the late night showing will be in letterbox format.
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 DVD Booty - Once Upon a Time in the West
Once upon a time in the west is what I call a pure masterpiece of the movies.If you look at the script,cinematography,scenerey,storyline,history,lines and music, it all seems to reach a higher perfection.It is no secret that I simply adore this movie, and I have done since a little girl.
It is, I suppose not your typical "women" movie,but then again I am not your typical woman.I love the vendetta and the sound of death constantly laying in the background of the movie.
Once Upon a Time in the West: Leone's newest effort, with a major cast and a lot of big studio...
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 Once Upon a Time in the West - Review by Shelby Sherman
This movie is a grand lament to the passing of the Old West and the beginning of a new era.
Who could forget that squeaking windmill, the timely whinny of the horses, the cicadas chirping and not chirping, the hearbeat of the powerful locomotive....I could go on and on of how these sights and sounds wove a powerful tapestry in this magnificent movie.
Frank has come to find out, once and for all, just why Harmonica is stalking him, and Harmonica tells him that he will tell him "only at the point of dying".
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 Once Upon A Time In The West - Music from the Movies
As Jill herself represents the changing West, so the theme is a wistful evocation of an American West that never really was, emerging larger than life even as we view it fading away.
The blissful passion of Jill’s Theme is contrasted with the brutal tonality of Franco De Gemini’s harmonica, associated with Charles Bronson’s stoic gunfighter.
Morricone’s music for Once Upon A Time In The West is the high point of his collaboration with director Leone.
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 Once Upon A Time In The West (Special Collector's Edition) - Wal-Mart
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 Amazon.co.uk: Once Upon a Time in the West -- Special Collector's Edition (2 discs) [1969]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sergio Leone had to be persuaded to return to the Western for Once Upon a Time in the West after the success of his "Dollars" trilogy.
Maybe not quite as groundbreaking as Good the Bad and Ugly which you want to watch again and again, Once Upon A Time in the West is still a groundbreaking movie but held together by that mesmorising Morriconie score.
I had seen the film many times over the years before I bought the DVD but never spotted a moment in the long pre-credit sequence when Jack Elam pulls the wires from the telegraph machine.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West, 1967), directed by Sergio Leone, is considered by many to be his greatest and most critically acclaimed film, and by some even as the greatest Western ever made.
The epic film stars Henry Fonda, in his most villainous role, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards, as a generally benign bandit, and Claudia Cardinale, as a newly-widowed homesteader with a lurid past.
Like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the stirring music almost defines the film.
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 Once Upon a Time in the West - Wikiquote
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Frank: "Morton once told me I could never be like him.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Once Upon a Time in the West at Epinions.com
"Once Upon a Time in the West" was the last of director Sergio Leone's four 'spaghetti westerns' from the 1960s.
There was a role for him in "Once Upon a Time in the West" as well, but he turned it down.
Still, "Once Upon a Time in the West" is a very
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Between the sharp comedic mind of David Chappelle and the quirky brilliance of French director Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), there's not a single bad moment to be found in this captivating concert documentary chronicling a massive block party that Chappelle threw in 2004 down in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
With acts like the Roots, Kanye West, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, and a reunion of the Fugees, this will be an automatic favorite for the hip-hop/neo-soul crowd.
This time out he's officially separated from Carmela (Edie Falco), but still beset by family problems and a wandering eye that strays into some dangerous territory.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Once Upon a Time In The West [Soundtrack]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Once Upon a Time in the West -- Special Collector's Edition (2 discs)
Once Upon a Time In America; Audio CD ~ Original Soundtrack (Artist)
But then everybody who saw "Once Upon A Time In The West" knows that Ennio Morricone had already done that.
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 Once upon a Time in Andalusia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This article is intended to be a trip in time to a very special period in world history: from the ninth to the thirteenth century in Andalusia, and more specifically in Córdoba, where a million people lived in Europe's largest city, the cultural center of that period.
This difference in both time and effort, to gain Arabia and Spain to Islam, is due to theological affinities as well as socio-cultural and politico-economical reasons which appealed to the Spaniards.
The Muslims bought the church because of the growth of the population at that time, and not because of religious intolerance.
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 Amazon.com: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Once Upon A Time In The West: The Original Soundtrack Recording [Soundtrack] ~ Ennio Morricone
The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) Once upon a Time in the West.
(And make no mistake: this is the wide, wide West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, fl-hearted killer (Fonda) does.
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 Once Upon a Time in the West - VHS - Title O Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Once Upon a Time in the West : The greatest Western ever made?????????
Once Upon a Time in the West : Lavishly brilliant, the ultimate western
This really is my favourite western, yes its long, but that only improves it for me. So much time and effort was spent by the director Sergio Leone on this film, and it's all visible.
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It was therefore appropriate that Bruce accepted an invitation during the Joad tour to perform a benefit for San Jose State University’s John Steinbeck Research Center.
‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ from Ultimix uses the previously circulated video of the show.
Like most of the amateur videos from the tour, this footage is fairly dark.
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 cancon: columnists: The State Of The Civilization - Once Upon A Time In Freedonia
In Freedonia we meet the lovably accidental scion of a wannabe-oil family whose clan was fast-tracked to glory through the Intelligence Community of a certain superpower located somewhere in the middle of North America.
Zeitl simmers here that History tends to smack of Time, and, while there is time, there is no Time — rather in the way there is art but no Art — at which point she is interrupted.
She is resistant to many of the things she hears in the East and the West and the East of the West.
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 C'era una volta il West (1968)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Once Upon a Time in the West (UK) (USA)
"Once upon a Time in the West" is Leone's masterpiece and certainly one of the best Westerns of all time...
It is beautifully shot, perfectly cast, ambitious, erotic, humorous and wonderfully scored by Leone's regular composer Ennio Morricone, whose haunting melodies are just as important as the widely separated dialog occurring on the action..
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