While millions of people toasted their New Year last night, I opted for a quiet evening on the couch. I hadn’t seen Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A TIme In the West since college. The film is just as amazing as I had remembered, though I hadn’t realized that Leone had collaborated on the story with Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci. The film also boasts one of the most fantastic opening title sequences that I have ever seen. I still find it a bit surreal that there is an entire genre of cinema (spaghetti westerns) that is constructed around a specific period of American history and told through the voices of Italian directors.
