Sergio Leone's so-called spaghetti Westerns upset the clichés of the American genre (and created some of their own), undermining myth with brutality and turning comforting stereotypes into haunting archetypes, like Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name. In striking 'Scope, with iconic music by Ennio Morricone, Leone confirmed that the Western is a genre of poetry-one that must be seen on the big screen.
Read full descriptionLeone's elegiac epic follows Jewish pals Robert De Niro and James Woods as they rise through the ranks of the rackets in '20s New York. Shown in a restored print.
A restored print of Leone's loopy mix of high camp and radical zeal that casts Rod Steiger and James Coburn as unlikely revolutionaries in Mexico.
Leone goes to the heartland of the Western-Monument Valley-for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
Leone's follow-up to Fistful of Dollars pairs Eastwood with Van Cleef against Gian Maria Volontè, making for mounting mayhem.
Leone perfects violence as kinetic composition in the conclusion to the "Dollars" trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef, screened in a restored 3-hour version.
Leone invented a new kind of Western with his sagebrush version of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and a new kind of hero in Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name.