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Sergio Leone, 1964, 99 min, 4K DCP With this blackly comic, cynical, dust-choked movie, Leone and Di Leo—one of the film's three uncredited writers—revolutionized the quintessentially American Western genre from his native Italy, established "Man with No Name" star Clint Eastwood as a taciturn, sculptural screen icon, and launched a thousand knockoff spaghetti Westerns[...]

Even Sergio Leone, whose "Dollars Trilogy" launched the genre, hated them If he was the father of the whole genre, "how many sons of bitches have I spawned?" he lamented That Dirty Black Bag is really filled with just hot air. That Dirty Black Bag is streaming on AMC+. That Dirty Black Bag belongs to a[...]

Image courtesy of Saban Films When writing the film, Lee drew inspiration for Townsend's Ford from the Eastwood-starred Dollar trilogy films of Sergio Leone Apache Junction features a wide range of talent from Taylor-Compton, Townsend, Thomas Jane, and Country star Trace Adkins "Everyone had a great chemistry from the minute Tom showed up, and he had[...]

In fact, Porter thinks the theme "was so bold and pervasive in a way that it said all that needed to be said about that." He and Gilligan spoke a lot about old westerns, particularly Sergio Leone ones, and how the sound design adds to the "spare, atmospheric sense." Whenever he had to figure out[...]