C'era una volta il West (1968)

So I'm stuck on old movies. But truly Once Upon a Time in the West is a classic in the true sense. Beautifully directed with extended shots, long drawn our suspense filled pauses and glares, the 7 second standoff with nothing moving in the screen with the two cowboys at the ends of the screen, the beautiful lady, the bad guys, no good guys, dry heat, wild west shootings, lot of extras dying, and a queer opening sequence with a housefly and the unnamed hero.

It'll be hard to find a movie thats this long and can get away with the pace these days, but then the luxury of having a faithful audience for so long allows the director to get every nuance of feelings from the faces and to actually tell a good story. Things unfold slowly but firmly around the well fleshed out characters, and each of the characters are well fleshed out. Somewhere along the movie you start wondering who the movie is about: harmonica, or the girl.

Oh, well, eitherways, a true gem of a movie.