Weekend Watching: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Hulu; US only)
Directed by Sergio Leone
For me, this is the pinnacle of the Leone style: the gigantic close-ups, the glacial show-downs, the deep perspective photography. Inglorious Basterds opening obviously owes a debt to this film’s early interrogation scene.
Seeing it in on the big-screen without all these commercials is a zillion times better, but watching classics in butchered form also has its charms. I saw plenty of Hitchcock, Kubrick and Scorsese on VHS and still loved them.
The first two installments of Leone’s Man With No Name trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, are also on Hulu.
