Of course, a truly iconic film, and one that is still strikingly vivid today. The American mythos, which finds one of its clearest expressions in westerns of this era, strikes a chord with me, and Once Upon A Time In The West is probably the most archetypal western film that I've seen; as is usually the case with this kind of film, it leaves an impression both by drawing on the rich stock of imagery that already exists and by remaking those visual ideas anew, a sort of (re)iterative deepening.
(w/ Kevin)
