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	Sergio Leone: something to do with death.
		Sergio Leone's career was characterised by a constant desire to be taken seriously as a film director.
		Leone is most often regarded as a curiosity, usually considered the resuscitator of a "dead" genre (the western) and the father of a derided sub-genre (the dreaded spaghetti western).
		Leone's shaky ego and yearning to be accepted as an intellectual (he often carried a copy of Céline's Journey to the end of the night to interviews; most of his associates suspected he had never read it) was often at odds with a bluff exterior, rarely yielding in battles of will.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev1100/pcbr11a.htm (1014 words)

	Sergio Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director who is considered to be one of the greatest Western directors of all time.
		Sergio Leone is well-known for his Spaghetti Western films, and his recognizable style of juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with extreme long shots, as in the opening scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
		Leone's characters were, in contrast, more "realistic" and complex: usually "lone wolves" in their behaviour, they rarely shaved, looked dirty, and there was a strong suggestion of body odour and a history of criminal behaviour; they were morally ambiguous and often either generously compassionate or nakedly and brutally self-serving as the situation demanded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sergio_Leone (1640 words)

	Classic Films/Sergio Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sergio Leone, born in 1929 in Rome, son of silent film director Vincenzo Leone, is most well known for the creation of the spaghetti westerns.
		Leone got much of his style, both in the complicated mise-en-scene and the use of Ennio Morricone's music from Yojimbo (but not the trademark Kurosawa wipe edit).
		Leone's style grew from imitating Kurasawa to his own style, which uses editing in combination with Morricone's scores to create incredible emotional peaks, dramatic camera movements, and, his trademark, the extreme close-up of the eyes of the characters.
	www.niksula.cs.hut.fi /~hrajala/ClassicFilms/leone.html (351 words)

	Amazon.de: Sergio Leone, Something To Do With Death: English Books: Christopher Frayling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leone was born into film: his father directed the first Italian Western in 1913 and his mother was an actress.
		Sergio Leone said he was "obsessed about detail, as everyone knows," so he might have enjoyed this massive biography.
		Leone immersed himself in the story's milieu, which licenses Frayling's ample explanation of the surprising ethnic diversity Leone discovered in the gangsters of the mean streets of the Lower East Side in the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.amazon.de /Sergio-Leone-Something-Do-Death/dp/0571164382 (898 words)

	Sergio Leone
		Leone was able to find backing for the project primarily due to the success of a series of German Westerns based on Karl May's pulp-fiction novels about Winnetou, last of the Mescalero Apache, and his blood-brother, 'Old Shatterhand'.
		Leone was a great admirer of surrealist art, and it is perhaps no coincidence that the Spanish locations of his Westerns are the same arid dreamscapes Salvador Dali employed in many of his nightmarish images of the 1930s.
		Leone played up the traditional unshaven image of the Western villain, filling his films with an array of bearded, over-the-top Italian actors who leered at the camera and laughed with sweaty abandon at their frequent acts of sadistic violence.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/leone.html (3830 words)

	Spaghetti Westerns: Sergio Leone
		Everyone is familiar with the spaghetti western genre: westerns made by Italians, most notably by Sergio Leone, who directed the ultimate trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, all starring Clint Eastwood.
		Leone's films are known not only for their unique visual imagery but also for their trademark music composed by Ennio Morricone.
		Leone was afraid American audiences would not respond well to an Italian-made western, but they became so popular that over 200 spaghetti westerns were made over the next decades.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/italian_cinema/30534 (385 words)

	Sergio Leone presented in Arts section
		Sergio Leone, born in 1921 in Rome, son of silent film director Vincenzo Leone, is best known for the creation of the spaghetti westerns.
		Leone turned it into the western A Fistful of Dollars in 1964, starring an unknown Clint Eastwood.
		Leone got much of his style, both in the complicated mise-en-scene and the use of Ennio Morricone’s music from Yojimbo.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/sergio_leone (632 words)

	Sergio Leone: A Fistful-of-Leone!
		Sergio Leone, born in 1929 in Rome, son of silent film director Vincenzo Leone, is best known for the creation of the spaghetti westerns.
		The movie is a homage to the simplicity and honesty of the old west, doomed from the beginning of the movie to death by progress.
		Of all Leone's films, this film has the best plot, portraying the lifelong struggle of a mobster wrestling with his criminal side.
	www.fistful-of-leone.com (586 words)

	Leone Sergio - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leone Sergio - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leone, Sergio (1929-1989), Italian film director who specialized in “spaghetti Westerns“.
		Leone was born in Rome, the son of a film director.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Leone_Sergio.html (95 words)

	Movie Production - Great Movie Directors - Great Film Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was said that Leone's Westerns were 'realistic' depictions of grim 19th century Tex-Mex frontier life, but actually they are stark, simple fables.
		Leone was a lover of grotesque faces, wide screens, corrida-style gunfights, craggy landscapes, long shots, absurd comedy, earthy physicality and bursts of swift, ghastly violence.
		Leone realised Westerns were also historical movies and obsessed over the precise types of gun, boot, pocket-watch or hat his characters should sport.
	www.nyfa.com /film/news_events/20great/17leone.htm (376 words)

	Leone Sergio: Biography
		His father Vincenzo Leone, was a silent movie director who worked under the name of Roberto Roberti and his mother, Bice Valerian, was a talented actress of the same period.
		After a stint as assistant director in William Wyler's "Ben Hur" (1959) and directing the second unit in "Sodom and Gomorra (Sodoma e Gomorra)" (1961) by Robert Aldrich, he finally graduated to the level of director with the mythological "The Colossus of Rhodes (Il Colosso di Rodi)" (1961) his first full-length feature film.
		Leone's rise as an artist concludes here: he was struck down by a heart attack in his home in Rome on 30 April 1989, while working on the arduous project for a film focusing on the German siege of Leningrad.
	www.italica.rai.it /eng/principal/topics/bio/leone.htm (428 words)

	Fistful-of-Leone: Films
		However, the full story of the film is a large one, and Leone's style is so operatic at this point that it takes much longer than the plot demands.
		Leone keeps everything moving quite nicely, yet he pauses to establish the mood with, for example, a crane shot of the bustling New York street, or a scene where Noodles stirs his coffee for a couple minutes, letting the mood become extremely uncomfortable.
		None of Sergio Leone's Western characters seem to have much emotion in any of his movies.
	www.fistful-of-leone.com /films/ouatia.html (1006 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		Leone burnished his widescreen skills with searing, undistorted close-ups, in this film scripted by Leone with Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento.
		Leone relaxes into his signature style with sweeping, widescreen panoramas, creative flashbacks to establish character, and brilliant use of Morricone’s evocative, unconventional music.
		A collaborative denouement for Leone (this was his final film), composer Ennio Morricone, and cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli (who shot many of Leone’s best-known films), this is the restored version in its full-length glory.
	www.bam.org /film/SergioLeone.aspx (491 words)

	Sergio Leone Biography (Filmmaker) — FactMonster.com
		Born into a famous Italian moviemaking family, Sergio Leone made a name for himself in 1964 with his second feature film, Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars).
		Leone's 1969 feature, C'era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In The West) was heavily edited by its American studio and was a failure at the box office, but was later restored and hailed as his masterpiece.
		Sergio Leone - Sergio Leone director, screenwriter Born: 1/3/1929 Birthplace: Rome, Italy Originator of the...
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/sergioleone.html (251 words)

	Italian Directors - Sergio Leone
		The legendary trio of stylish and darkly comic "spaghetti westerns" by Sergio Leone that turned Clint Eastwood from a minor American TV star, struggling to find a place in films, into an international action film superstar.
		Leone's sterling spaghetti Western, starring Clint Eastwood as "the man with no name," is a slick remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which was itself based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.
		The second collaboration of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood finds Eastwood reluctantly accompanying a mysterious bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) to track a vicious killer and his band of outlaw grotesques.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-ital-leone.html (793 words)

	10,000 Bullets » Sergio Leone
		Sergio leone was born in 1929 in Rome, son of silent film director Vincenzo Leone.
		Leone entered films in his late teens working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and Americans working in Italy.
		Leone’s career would take off after watching Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and he would reshape the material into what would become A Fistful of Dollars.
	10kbullets.com /features/sergio-leone (544 words)

	Sergio Leone @ Filmbug
		Sergio Leone (January 3, 1921 or 1929 - April 30, 1989) was a Italian Film director.
		Born in Rome he was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone and the actress Francesca Bertini.
		Tell us what you think of Sergio Leone in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.com /db/1675 (219 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sergio Leone (Pocket Essentials): Books: Michael Carlson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sergio Leone breathed new life into the Western at a time when American cinema was laying it to rest.
		Re-inventing the genre through the 'spaghetti western', Leone made on international star of a TV actor, Clint Eastwood, and brought collaborators Ennio Morricone and Bernardo Bertolucci to the attention of audiences worldwide.
		In this Pocket Essential to Sergio Leone, Michael Carlson analyses each of his films and discusses Leone's influence on both his contemporaries and the film-makers who came after him, such as John Woo and Quentin Tarantino.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sergio-Leone-Pocket-Essentials-S/dp/1903047412 (357 words)

	Amazon.com: Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death: Books: Christopher Frayling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leone didn't shy away from embracing the language of cinema and creating his own dialect.
		I understood this book to be a biography of Sergio Leone, not a story about Spaghetti Westerns so I was pleasantly surprised when the author began by desribing the whole cultural background of Mr Leone.
		The only truly revealing info about Leone, the man, is contained in his opinions about other films and his repeated claims that he was responsible for the achievements of others.
	www.amazon.com /Sergio-Leone-Something-Do-Death/dp/0571164382 (1758 words)

	sergioleone
		Sergio Leone died of a heart attack in 1989.
		Leone’s surreal masterpiece of the American West during the last days of the Civil War follows a trio of equally violent and unrepentant gunslingers (Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee van Cleef) who engage in a jawdropping series of double- and triple-crosses to get their hands on a fortune in stolen Confederate gold.
		Leone’s vast, mournful, brilliantly poetic epic of the rape and conquest of the American West stars Charles Bronson as a soft-spoken, harmonica-blowing gunslinger bent on revenge against corporate railroad assassin Henry Fonda, in one of the most chilling portraits of consummate evil ever put on screen.
	www.americancinematheque.com /archive1999/2003/sergioleone.htm (1002 words)

	Sergio Leone
		Story by Sergio Leone after Akira Kurosawa; uncredited.
		Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars), directed by Bob Robertson (Sergio Leone), 1964.
		It is 1861-2 during the Civil War, and the three main characters - a "good" bounty hunter, a "bad" hired gunman and an "ugly" Mexican outlaw - organize various scams, while trying to avoid the wartime destruction that is happening all around them.
	digilander.libero.it /Ernesto.Alto/Sergio_Leone.htm (710 words)

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		Leone entered the filmmaking arena while still a teenager, laboring as an assistant director, screenwriter and bit player.
		Leone followed up his successful Eastwood films with his operatic masterwork ONCE UPON ATIME IN THE WEST (1968), starring Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards and a memorably murderous Henry Fonda, and the tragicomic chronicle of the Mexican revolution, DUCK YOU SUCKER (1972).
		Leone's surreal masterpiece of the American West during the last days of the Civil War follows a trio of equally violent and unrepentant gunslingers (Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee van Cleef) who engage in a jaw-dropping series of double - and triple-crosses to get their hands on a fortune in stolen Confederate gold.
	www.americancinematheque.com /pressreleases/2003/sergioleonepr.htm (1224 words)

	Sergio Leone Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leone's last major project was "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), a bloody tribute to the American gangster film.
		Though praised at the Cannes Film Festival and across Europe, it was severely cut for US release to an extent which made it almost incomprehensible.
		Father Vincenzo Leone was a noted silent film director.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196261 (246 words)

	Sicilian Culture: The People: Sergio Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sergio was born in Rome, the son of Vicenzo Leone, a silent film director.
		Sergio was an obscure film director when he was given $200k and surplus film and asked to make a western movie.
		And apparently they knew enough to make a captivating genere of movies which now is a classic institution.
	www.sicilianculture.com /people/leone.htm (197 words)

	Once Upon a Time in Italy . . . The Westerns of Sergio Leone
		This DVD featurette on the Sergio Leone exhibition at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West includes interviews with cocurators Sir Christopher Frayling and Estella Chung (pictured), exhibit designer Eric Gaard, and conservator Richard Moll.
		Visitors to this one-of-a-kind special exhibition will be drawn to and enchanted by the props, the iconic costumes, the pencil designs of sets they all know and love, and the scripts that were used by major actors and touched by Sergio Leone himself.
		Leone’s Westerns still influence directors today who work in different genres, and the membership of the honorary committee acknowledges his legacy.
	www.autrynationalcenter.org /leone (443 words)

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