17 May 2011
www.winchesterfilmsociety.co.uk Once Upon a Time in the West
Many thanks for all your support this helping Leone conceive the story - on Italy / US 1968 season at the Screen. We’ve saved the film. Still, even though West's Director tonight’s classic screening to go out pensive, tragic romanticism recalls Sergio Leone on a high! But don’t forget we’ve vintage Bertolucci, and its abundant use Writing Credits extended our season this year with of visual and aural signifiers brings to Dario Argento two extra films at alternative venues mind Argento, the film's seductive Bernardo Bertolucci – see box below. Would be lovely if interplay between image and sound - a Sergio Leone you could join us! Have a great relationship that would reach its apex summer. with the director's final film Once Upon a Cinematography Time in America - is trademark Leone. Tonino Delli Colli Sergio Leone made a fistful of great The director harmoniously links Original Music films, but none better than 1968's ode to disparate sounds and images: the buzz Ennio Morricone the fading American frontier, Once Upon of a fly or a gunshot segues into the Cast a Time in the West. Leone, an Italian stylist howling whistle of a train and the Frank who made a career out of transforming squeaking of a weathervane becomes the Henry Fonda melodramatic genre pictures into wild, plaintive whine of a harmonica. Leone
Jill McBain fiery, violent statements about the similarly uses the sounds of the natural Claudia Cardinale country that had inspired his cinematic world as a means of slowly revealing
Cheyenne dreams, uses West as a means of information - when the crickets stop Jason Robards dramatizing that fateful instant when the chirping while McBain and his kids
Harmonica Old West of gunslingers and shootouts prepare for Mrs. McBain's welcoming Charles Bronson mutated into the New West of manifest feast, it's clear that trouble is brewing -
Morton destiny-inspired greed and corruption. and punctuates the action with Gabriele Ferzetti But as its fairy-tale title implies, the film Morricone's passionate, haunting score. is also interested in casting this historical 168 minutes turning point as a parable about the Nick Schager, Slant Magazine death of the western itself. Much like The Wild Bunch (except with more beauty The Western is dead, they tell us. Long Our bonus screenings… and pathos than Sam Peckinpah would live Leone’s timeless monument to the
Waste Land (Bra/UK) ever deign to muster), Leone wants his death of the west itself, rivalled only by Wed 25 May 2011 7:30pm multi-pronged fable to be not only Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Winch Discovery Centre history, but myth as well. Much has been for the title of best ever made. Critical
made about the influence of Italian tools needed are eyes and ears – this is The Illusionist (Fr/UK) filmmakers Dario Argento and Bernardo Cinema. Tue 28 June 2011 7:30pm Bertolucci - who are credited with The Point, Eastleigh Paul Taylor, Time Out Film Guide
Voting for The Cove: A-25 B-12 C-0 D-1 E-0 Attendance: 40 Rating: 90.1%