dos. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Due to the fact expansive and you may iconic as the name implies, Sergio Leone’s Not so long ago about West certainly looked to-be written in John Ford’s blood, on huge wider-perspective visions out of Monument Valley you to definitely Leone and DP Tonino Delli Colli luxuriated in to the railway-founded, future-of-The united states financial surroundings one to serves as a backdrop to help you several of bandit-versus-bandit fuel performs. It’s to Leone’s borrowing from the bank the grand bu siМ‡teyiМ‡ iМ‡nceleyiМ‡n, cautiously plotted story actually what is appreciated towards movie, which is little if you don’t the ultimate culmination of your auteur’s genre functions. What exactly is appreciated ‘s the bluish, uncaring sky cast over a dry, high-pressure wasteland out-of a wasteland having gusts of wind throwing up miniscule storms from red-colored mud, dust, and you will particles; how Charles Bronson’s challenging, solemn gunslinger motions one harmonica round the his parched throat; and you may Jill’s (Claudia Cardinale) near-ritualistic humiliation as a result of the fresh new cackling, diabolical Frank (Henry Fonda).