Sergio Leone

Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns

Argento—Cinema in the Blood

Trying to Escape a Zombie-Plagued Africa, Facing Humanity All Along the Way, in The Dead

Yojimbo

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Rango: Too Much Hunter S. Thompson, Not Enough Laughs

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

"Duck, You Sucker": Betrayal in All Its Hopelessly Unresolved Ambiguity

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 27 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Sergio Leone's "DUCK, YOU SUCKER" doesn't ring true to the American ear as a title. Its internal rhyme only accentuates the relative desuetude of "sucker" as slang. But th ... More >>

Marketa Lazarová

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 27 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Sergio Leone's "DUCK, YOU SUCKER" doesn't ring true to the American ear as a title. Its internal rhyme only accentuates the relative desuetude of "sucker" as slang. But th ... More >>

Once Upon a Time in the West

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 27 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Sergio Leone's "DUCK, YOU SUCKER" doesn't ring true to the American ear as a title. Its internal rhyme only accentuates the relative desuetude of "sucker" as slang. But th ... More >>

In Praise of Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, and the Graceful Despair of Marc Ribot

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 27 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Sergio Leone's "DUCK, YOU SUCKER" doesn't ring true to the American ear as a title. Its internal rhyme only accentuates the relative desuetude of "sucker" as slang. But th ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

The Female: Seventy Times Seven

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

Anurag Basu's Overwrought, Trilingual Kites

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

Drink a Sergio Leone at Savoy

Giddy up.​The drink: Sergio Leone The bar: Savoy, 70 Prince Street The price: $12 The ingredients: Bergamot-infused gin, reposado tequila, Cynar, and sweet vermouth, shaken and served in a cocktail glass with a thinly sliced lime wheel to garnish. The buzz: Yes, that's right. Cynar. It's a ... More >>

Kim's The Good, the Bad, and the Weird Disappoints

Giddy up.​The drink: Sergio Leone The bar: Savoy, 70 Prince Street The price: $12 The ingredients: Bergamot-infused gin, reposado tequila, Cynar, and sweet vermouth, shaken and served in a cocktail glass with a thinly sliced lime wheel to garnish. The buzz: Yes, that's right. Cynar. It's a ... More >>

Yojimbo

Giddy up.​The drink: Sergio Leone The bar: Savoy, 70 Prince Street The price: $12 The ingredients: Bergamot-infused gin, reposado tequila, Cynar, and sweet vermouth, shaken and served in a cocktail glass with a thinly sliced lime wheel to garnish. The buzz: Yes, that's right. Cynar. It's a ... More >>

Rediscovering the Japanese Horror Flick House

Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hausu brings a whole lotta crazy

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King and Karl May on DVD

For the filmaficionado on your list

I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Marketa Lazarova

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Calexico's Western Reunion

Having left their hearts in El Segundo, Joey Burns and John Convertino circle back to retrieve them

The Go-Getter: Hipster Road-Trip Redux

With Jena Malone as Ad-Rock

The Good, the Bad, and the Set-Pieces

Johnnie To, gunslinger, pays stylish homage to the good old days

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

The Untouchable

Film-score master chef serves up his silky spaghetti live, finally

Pipe Dream

Brothers Grimm meet Donovan in '70s fairy tale

Ace Up His Sleeve

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

You Had to Be There . . .

. . . But since you weren't, a tale of Danish porn and Mexican discos with the Maestro of El Topo

Keep A-Goin'

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

The Newer World: Malick Cuts Fat, Keeps Movie Intact

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

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Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

'Once Upon a Time in the West'

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

'The Warrior'

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

Ride With the Devil

An anti-oater searches for the Man With No Name, who happens to be in town this week

The Revolution Will Be Westernized: Leone's Nutty, Lefty Epic

An anti-oater searches for the Man With No Name, who happens to be in town this week

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An anti-oater searches for the Man With No Name, who happens to be in town this week

All in the Family

The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Listings

The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Where All the Lights Are Bright

Gangster Lore, Geriatric Shagging, Global Strife, and Garage Bands

Listings

Gangster Lore, Geriatric Shagging, Global Strife, and Garage Bands

Boys From Brazil

The Young and the Damned

Vice City

The Young and the Damned

Knight in White Spaghetti

The Young and the Damned

Leeds Icons Sell Out Garden; Get Out of This World Alive

The Headline Above Is a Lie

Letters

The Headline Above Is a Lie

Finding Their Religion

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Finding Their Religion

The Headline Above Is a Lie

Roads to Rio

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Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

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