The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (United Artists)
This Friday May 23, Landmark's Ken Cinema begins a week-long festival celebrating 90 years of United Artists films. New prints of films such as The Great Escape, The Apartment and Dr. No will be screened. But the film that kicks off the festival and gets my immediate attention is Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (listen to my radio feature to get your fix of the now famous music.)
No music has come to define a genre more vividly than Ennio Morricone's theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly . Just a few notes of this witty, epic score is all you need to conjure up images of western landscapes, weather-beaten faces and showdowns on dusty street.
Estate
June 11, 2008 at 02:58 PM
the good the bad the ugly, is that in order of the picture, left to right? lol
Beth Accomando
June 11, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Yep. Although I've always thought that Wallach and Van Cleef could switch -- Wallach's Tuco is certainly ugly and Van Cleef is one bad dude.
Here's the trailer showing how each character was described:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EUXqIwDkQ
Enjoy.
