The Good, the Bad & The Ugly (Leone, 1966): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.20pm
This 35mm presentation is on an extended run at the Prince Charles Cinema from June 18th to 24th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Sergio Leone's comic, cynical, inexplicably moving epic spaghetti western (1966), in which all human motivation has been reduced to greed—it's just a matter of degree between the Good (Clint Eastwood), the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), and the Ugly (Eli Wallach). Leone's famous close-ups—the "two beeg eyes"—are matched by his masterfully composed long shots, which keep his crafty protagonists in the subversive foreground of a massively absurd American Civil War. Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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