{"product_id":"sergio-leone-by-himself","title":"Sergio Leone by Himself","description":"\u003cp class=\"redstrong\"\u003eCompiled writings and interviews from the director who pioneered the “spaghetti Western” film genre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the worldwide box-office success of his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDollars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etrilogy and his untimely death in April 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone gave several interviews to selected film journalists. He also wrote a series of thoughtful essays about his cinematic influences such as Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Henry Fonda, Robert Aldrich and John Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo accompany his final film,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1984), he published several articles about his obsessive quest to make the film and how it eventually happened. Most of these writings have never before appeared in English; as a collection they have never before appeared anywhere.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSergio Leone by Himself\u003c\/i\u003e, compiled by Leone’s acclaimed biographer Christopher Frayling, gathers all his significant interviews, essays and articles to create a director’s-eye view of a body of work that over the past half century has had a decisive influence on world cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is illustrated with previously unseen photographs, posters and related ephemera from the Leone family collection and the Angelo Novi archive, both now housed in the Cineteca in Bologna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe architect of cinema’s American West,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergio Leone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1929–89) did not speak English. His “spaghetti Westerns” were filmed in Italy and Spain and received both critique and acclaim for their violence, grittiness and camera work. Leone is best remembered for his two “trilogies'' of films: the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDollars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etrilogy starring Clint Eastwood and his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efilms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reel Art Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42949765922914,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/5580\/files\/01_3cf1f2a7-9679-47ea-8068-0802659aa621.jpg?v=1779142219","url":"https:\/\/actualsource.org\/products\/sergio-leone-by-himself","provider":"Actual Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}