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Leone and Eastwood Western Fans Head for Spain
Whenever I washed the dishes in my old Manhattan apartment, I looked at Clint Eastwood in a giant French movie poster: Le Bon, le Brut et Le Truand. Later I discovered the great spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone with classic scores by Ennio Morricone.
This June, the Austin Drafthouse's 2008 Rolling Roadshow Tour is taking its tribute to Eastwood and Leone's Dollars Trilogy to Southern Spain, where the films were shot in the 60s. The showings of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, starring Eastwood as the iconic western anti-hero The Man with No Name, will unspool on June 6-8 in Almeria, Spain. It's the first Rolling Roadshow Tour to be held outside the U.S.
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Here's more on Leone's Dollars trilogy:
The Leone "Dollars" Trilogy In 1964, Sergio Leone, an assistant director of Italian "sword and sandal" movies traveled to the Almeria region of Spain to shoot a small film based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai adventure Yojimbo. The leading man was an unknown American bit-part television actor who at 34 years old was well past his matinee-idol potential. The film, was A Fistful of Dollars; the actor, Clint Eastwood. No one could have imagined the explosive force of this seemingly modest film. Sergio Leone is now considered by many film historians to be one of the most influential directors of all time. Few films have reshaped the visual style of cinema more than Sergio Leone's quintessential "Spaghetti Western" trilogy, and even fewer films elevate the filming location to the status on par with lead actor. Like John Ford's American southwest, Leone's Almeria region plays a vital role in shaping the emotion and spirit of his films. Leone's stylistic and graphic depictions of the Old West elevated a marginalized genre to an art form and influenced today's filmmakers.
Tuco Tours offer tours of all of the Sergio Leone locations in Spain.
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