Once Upon a Time in America: 40th Anniversary Screening
Schedule
Sun Apr 21 2024 at 03:00 pm to 07:00 pm
Location
Oklahoma City Museum of Art | Oklahoma City, OK
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Featuring an iconic score by composer Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone’s final and perhaps greatest film is an intricately constructed, decade-spanning New York crime saga starring Robert De Niro as a guilt-ridden gangster who returns home to confront his past. Inspired by Harry Grey’s autobiographical novel 'The Hoods' – written pseudonymously while he was serving time in Sing-Sing—Sergio Leone and an army of writers (which at one point included Norman Mailer) fashioned an epic story centering on a Jewish clan of childhood friends, led by “Noodles” (De Niro) and “Max” (Woods), who over the span of four decades become notorious New York City criminals. Ennio Morricone imbues Leone’s epic with a sad grandeur, the melancholic “Deborah’s Theme” among the most famous of his compositions for its cruel beauty. “Thriller, melodrama, citations from gangster cinema classics, as well as the cinema of Chaplin, Welles and Neorealism all come together in a voyage towards oblivion and death, in which we slowly discover, within this unreal cinematographic grandeur, Noodles’ desperation and anguish” (Gian Luca Farinelli, Il Cinema Ritrovato festival catalog, 2012).” -MoMA
Sergio Leone | 1984 | In English | 228 minutes | R | DCP
Buy tickets: https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/once-upon-a-time-in-america/
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Also screening at OKCMOA:
ENNIO
Fri., April 19 at 5 pm | Sat., April 20 at 2 pm
From the director of Cinema Paradiso, this inspiring and encyclopedic documentary portrait of influential movie maestro Ennio Morricone offers a definitive look back at the Oscar-winning composer's extraordinary six-decade career.
https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/ennio/
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Where is it happening?
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr,Oklahoma City,OK,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
