Once Upon A Time ...The Sergio Leone Thread

[the blob]

I'm waiting for the UK version of OUATIA. I love it but there's so much else to buy I can probably wait for a bit. I almost feel like I know the film off by heart anyway after seeing it in the cinema quite a few times and countless times on VHS and dvd.

[Inspector Tanzi]

All we need now is "The West" and "Dynamite"

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Surely West won't be long now....

[the blob]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Surely West won't be long now....

Paramount.. don't they release about 1 catalogue BD per year now?

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Originally Posted by Inspector Tanzi

All we need now is "The West" and "Dynamite"

What the world really needs is THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES in HD.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

What the world really needs is THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES in HD.

More concerened about the westerns mate, especially OUATITW as it is my favourite film

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

This is a masterpiecex but I'm really not sure where it fits in with Sergio Leone's best films -- I have the BD but I'm waiting for a time when I have four hours spare one evening before watching it as I don't want to watch it in instalments; it's in one viewing or not at all!

[the blob]

I'm still yet to buy it.. all in good time but I just saw this at blu-ray.com:


The Bologna Cinematheque, through its prestigious L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, is going to fully restore Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America and add 40 minutes of original footage to its 229-minute running time. There is no information about a Blu-ray release, in Italy or elsewhere.

This extended version, commissioned after Leone's children acquired Italian rights to the film, is being supervised by the film's original sound editor and will be screened in 2012 at film festivals and possibly in theaters.

Personally, I love the film as it is but it'll be interesting to see.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by the blob

Personally, I love the film as it is but it'll be interesting to see.

Same here and, with those extra 40 minutes, it will clock in at a mammoth 270 minutes!

[wayfarer]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Same here and, with those extra 40 minutes, it will clock in at a mammoth 270 minutes!

I'm intrigued to know what the 40 minutes will add to the movie. It could kill it like the extra footage added to Apocalypse Now killed that movie.

A question to those of you who bought the Blu-Ray of "...America" - what is your verdict on PQ and AQ?