Saturday, June 14, 2025

Sergio Leone's Landscape of Faces

After the success of the Dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone was told by the studio he had to direct one more Western. What he created, may be the greatest western, and one of the greatest films of all time. Deemed too long and slow for audiences, Leone perfectly utilized the nothingness of western life, causing scenes to move almost painfully slow, but in the most beautiful way.

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