Sergio Leone
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Leone’s Dollars Trilogy Available Free on Hulu
Through the end of November, Hulu is hosting Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for free viewing: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and — the greatest, obviously — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Since the films…
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George Pelecanos’ Favorite Westerns
The Magnificent Seven (1960) A handful of professional gunmen led by black-clad Yul Brynner are hired to protect a south-of-the-border farming village from scores of bandits in John Sturges’ western adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
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THE EYEBALL: What I Watched This Weekend, Yojimbo
I’m fascinated by cultural cross-pollination when it comes to art. The Beatles dug Buddy Holly, the psychedelic bands of San Francisco dug the Beatles, the Britpop bands of the nineties dug those psychedelic bands, and the Dandy Warhols watered down…