Quentin Tarantino

Shooting star

In the realism, the set pieces, the operatic music, Sergio Leone was pointing the way towards modern filmmaking

issue 01 June 2019

This is an edited extract from the Foreword to Christopher Frayling’s Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece (Reel Art Press), based on a long conversation between Frayling and Tarantino from January 2018. 

The movie that made me consider filmmaking, the movie that showed me how a director does what he does, how a director can control a movie through his camera, is Once Upon a Time in the West.

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