Once upon a time, a filmmaker named Sergio Leone wanted to make a film as epic in its breadth and undertaking as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.His idea for this movie was to tell a New York ...

Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and Margarita Lozano filming ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ (CPC/THA/Shutterstock) The Leone/Eastwood trilogy was made hot on the stirrups of the first James Bond movies.

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In particular, he enjoyed photographing Sergio Leone in action — miming for the benefit of his actors, lining up complex shots, boosting morale on the set, wearing a cowboy hat in the hot sun.

Once disparaged as "spaghetti Westerns," Leone's films helped revive the genre, and ushered in a unique visual style. In 2005, cultural historian Christopher Frayling reflected on Leone's influence.

Growing up as Sergio Leone’s career escalated segueing from the so-called “Dollars Trilogy” to “Once Upon a Time in the West” up to their father’s final masterpiece, “Once Upon a ...

LONDON – Leone Film Group, the company that owns the movies of late Italian director Sergio Leone, made its stock market debut in Milan on Wednesday.