Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) in 4K!

Sergio Leone is probably still best known for his trilogy of mid-60s Man With No Name spaghetti westerns but his peak came just afterwards with Once Upon a Time in the West, which extended the formula to the length of an epic and the emotional scale of an opera. It's in my top five of all time and I've never seen it on the big screen.

Claudia Cardinale is the beautiful widow who has inherited a dangerously attractive piece of real estate. Henry Fonda (brilliantly cast against type) is the evil mercenary who will stop at nothing to get her to sign it over. Jason Robards is the outlaw caught in the middle. And Charles Bronson is the mysterious, harmonica-playing gunman who has his own reasons to get involved.

Master soundtracker Ennio Morricone gave each their own theme (literally like an opera) in arguably his greatest work, the gunfighting scenes are terrific and the plot twists and turns like a river snaking through a valley, courtesy of a story Leone devised with Bernado Bertolucci and Dario Argento(!!)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8CJ6L0I6W8

Tickets here (I'm in C5). We can meet for a coffee round the corner at Ole and Steen at 12.30pm and head in afterwards.