Sergio Leone Documentaries

I’m always loking for rare footage & docs about my favorite films & film makers. I just learned about this one here:

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/sergio-leone/d6c78f96e2fe5f3c6ee2d6c78f96e2fe5f3c6ee2-70416467125

I’d love to have it. Is anybody here from Italia who recorded it from RAI maybe? I have some stuff for trade, I recently digitalized my VHS tapes with rare Leone-footage & docs.

Come to think of it: has anybody the French doc ONCE UPON A TIME SERGIO LEONE? It was screened
in Germany some 4 years ago, but only cut (38 minutes, I’m sure the French version is much longer).
Also I’m looking for the Italian Leone TV-Special from 1989 and the TV-Show from 1984 (on OUATIA).

Like I said - I have a lot of stuff for trade, not only Leone of course but some 1000 hrs of rare docs…

Trying to add some more to the SWDb. Like the recent on on Arte
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Sergio_Leone_:_une_Amérique_de_légende

Also a short bit on his credits sequences: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/077140-066-A/blow-up-die-vor-und-abspanne-von-sergio-leone/

Something on the Paris exhibition Es war einmal... Sergio Leone | ARTE

And one about locations

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/078979-002-A/andalusien-wo-sergio-leone-den-italowestern-erfand/

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/070794-000-A/sergio-leone-une-amerique-de-legende/?fbclid=IwAR0HL0dfLfgR7vZk_1LuRV_EkTfDk1lB6aUOMp40o7F-TJXN17lO5pbeLnQ

Sergio Leone’s Daughter Raffaella on His Legacy Depicted in Venice Doc ‘The Italian Who Invented America’ – Clip

‘Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America’ Film Review: Enjoyable Doc Celebrates Spaghetti-Western Auteur

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Seems to be on Sky (e.g. in the UK)

Just found this on Youtube…no good to me because I don’t understand Italian.

However, it may prove useful to someone on ‘SWDB’ who does understand the language. :grin:

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Thanks for posting this, @Toscano

The interviewer introduces Leone as among the few Italian directors of absolute international prestige.

Asked about his early film experiences he mentions a small role (age 13 or 14) in his father’s final film ‘La boca sulla strada’ and later working as an assistant on De Sica’s ‘Bicycle Thieves’. He says he was born with neorealism - therefore has always thought cinema was the proposal of the adventure of the myth and also some certain little ghosts that each of us has inside.

He later says he doesn’t consider himself the father of the Italian western as thirty films had already been made before him, adding that in commercial terms the vision of the American pseudo western was considered exhausted.

He recounts the familiar story of seeing Clint Eastwood on Rawhide and his dislike for cigars. Also due to the small budget he was unhappy with the costumes used in the film.

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90 million lire.

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