Once...
This evening I watched "Once Upon A Time in America". I had bought it as a DVD several years ago but never got round to watching it. It was the last film that Sergio Leone ever directed and for him it was a genuine labour of love. I first saw this film in a cinema in 1985 and was absolutely wowed by it. That was forty years ago and ever since I had frequently referred to it as the best film I had ever seen - even though the mobster genre does not normally provide the kind of film that really appeals to me. Starring Robert De Niro and James Woods , "Once Upon A Time In America" is three hours and forty nine minutes long. However, it was meant to be much longer but objections by film distributors forced Sergio Leone to re-edit it. Some critics feel that that was an unforgivable act of artistic vandalism. Moving to and fro between 1920s New York City, the 1960s and beyond the film focuses upon a group of Jewish hoodlums who have an appetite for violence and mo...