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 Because it doesn’t
feature Clint Eastwood, this elaborate, ambitious 1972
Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, which puts haunted
Irish bomber James Coburn and scruffy bandit Rod
Steiger into the middle of the Mexican Revolution, is
often overlooked. Not as straightforward as
Leone’s better-known films, it’s a
cornucopia of broad comedy, violent mayhem, naïve
politics, and dizzy melodrama—not to mention
something of a masterpiece. (2 hrs., 38
mins.; NR)
— BILGE EBIRI AND LOGAN HILL
Spotlight: Sergio Leone
Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone’s
legacies are flourishing at the multiplex: Just
consider Kill Bill, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and
Mystic River. But the real deal returns to New York
screens this week. Kurosawa and Leone have been linked
ever since the latter director ripped off Yojimbo for
his A Fistful of Dollars, transforming
Kurosawa’s brutal samurai into a grim
sharpshooter played by Rawhide’s Clint Eastwood.
Hurry to the Film Forum for new 35-mm. prints of
Leone’s classic “Man With No Name”
spaghetti Westerns, plus Duck, You Sucker (starring
Rod Steiger, pictured). Then head to Symphony Space
for its bumper crop of Kurosawa.
Opens November 21
• Showtimes
& tickets (movietickets.com)
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