SLIFF 2018 – ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE WEST Screens at The St. Louis Public Library November 10th

This year, the St. Louis International Film Festival will celebrate “Golden Anniversaries” of five movies made in 1968. They are: BULLITT, MEDIUM COOL, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, PRETTY POISON, and ROSEMARY’S BABY. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST will screen Saturday November 10th at 2pm at The St. Louis Public Library (1301 Olive St, St. Louis 63103). This is a FREE event. This screening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST will have an intro and post-film discussion by We Are Movie Geeks editor/creative director Tom Stockman.

Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” — a Western-to-end-all-Westerns — brings SLIFF Golden Anniversaries: 1968 retrospective to an appropriately rousing conclusion. Rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) angles to claim the single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land’s owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but the blue-eyed killer guns him down instead, pinning the death on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a harmonica-playing gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson), and McBain’s new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town. The Observer writes: “The Everest of the spaghetti western is a violent, poetic elegy that links a revenge story (Charles Bronson as a Mexican peon searching for his brother’s killer) to the epic of the building of the transcontinental railroads. It’s a Marxist saga of capitalist exploitation and the battle over natural resources in the west (from the great pre-credit sequence to the final shot, water is the dominant motif).”

A Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE