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Dir: Sergio Leone.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
Description: Running just shy of three hours, this extended cut of Sergio Leone's iconic 1966 western stars Clint Eastwood as the good gun gunslinger of the title who joins fellow outlaws Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef on the hunt for buried treasure during the American Civil War. As the three men converge on the same cemetery where the gold coins are rumoured to be buried, they become embroiled in the ongoing conflict between the Union and the Confederacy, shooting their way out of trouble to the strains of Ennio Morricone's score.
Country: ITA. 1966. 178mins
The Good, the Bad, but never Ugly: Clint Eastwood is the Man with No Name
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, you might carp, is always on telly - there's no point in shelling out to watch it at the cinema.
Think again, chum. Seen on a small screen, Sergio Leone's classic evokes little more than a Sunday afternoon round your gran's. But writ large, it is an object lesson in why westerns, spaghetti or otherwise, hold a unique position in film history.
There are the wide, bleak expanses, which have never looked so fine as in this crisp new print. There there's the parched majesty of Ennio Morricone's remarkable score; the redemptive twist of the plot; or something so simple as a tracking shot of a running horse. Something in these captures the essence of cinema.
But nothing does quite so much as Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name. The dead eyes; the cracks and furrows; the enviable facial hair; the implacable jawline. As far as iconic goes, Andrei Rublev's entire life's work has nothing on Clint's phizog. And then there's that poncho ...
Clint is the long overdue subject of this retrospective. There is Leone's spaghetti trilogy with tonight's screening of GBU followed up with the only slightly less majestic A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More later in the season.
But the further you range through Clint's career, the more remarkable his powers. The stunningly beautiful Outlaw Josey Wales from 1976 (showing tonight) deconstructs his iconic Western persona with gentle wit as he plays a Missouri farmer bent on revenge. Then there's his nasty side in Dirty Harry, his rogue cop reprise in Coogan's Bluff; the brilliant noir, Tightrope; though perhaps not his monkey film, Any Which Way But Loose.
Almost more remarkable is Eastwood's latter career as one of the finest US directors. The beginnings are explored in this season, with his debut effort behind camera, the creepy thriller Play Misty for Me; his second effort, the unlikely romance Breezy; and Bird, the biopic of jazz legend Charlie Bird, with Forest Whitaker in the title role, in the programme this month. September's films focus on his later career. Not just a gritty face.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 7pm; The Outlaw Josey Wales, 8.20pm. Season continues until 30 September (020 7928 3232; www.bfi.org.uk). £8.60, £6.25 concs.
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