When it comes to playing at revolution, Leone suggests, it’s best not to get involved.
The often-overlooked middle film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy is a taut, nasty thriller, and Kino gives it its due with a terrific A/V transfer.
Kino finally gives a milestone in film history its definitive release, rescuing it from what seemed like the eternal damnation of inconsistent video presentations.
Leone truly came into his own with the capper to his Man with No Name trilogy, and it now looks better than ever home video.
A Fistful of Dollars uses American myths as fodder for a visionary director’s formalist carnival.
One of the festival’s genuine, if lower-key highlights, which lent focus to its literary origins as well as to its filmmakers, was Intruder in the Dust.
The film gallops onto Blu-ray looking better than ever, but without so much as a single extra for outrider, from Image Entertainment.
As a magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in America falls just a few point tragically shy of greatness.
A self-described “down-east liberal,” Stoehr is all too aware of the irony that the foreword to Ride, Boldly, Ride was written by Eastwood.
Wertmüller imbues her films with the popular (and populist) traditions of commedia all’italiana, a style of humor that traces back to medieval puppet theater.
It’s hard to look at Tuesday Weld’s career without feeling a tiny pang of regret for what could have been.
Sleeping Beauty is enervated, ludicrous, and the sort of unique debut that makes one impatient to see what comes next.
Second only to Leone, Sergio Corbucci is the king of the spaghetti western.
Sergio Leone's titanic saga of vengeance and progress doubles as a stunning reassessment of John Ford's West.
Kites plays like a Douglas Sirk melodrama interpreted by Sergio Leone and with a score by Enya.
There’s a reason why superheroes were originally dismissed as naïve power fantasies for impotent men.
My mistake. Four coffins for all previous video versions of these films.
A disappointing set. If you want real camp, look to other volumes in the series.
We’re entering into this conversation coming from antithetical perspectives.
What occurs throughout the trial are acts of resistance, both active and passive.