C 'era una volta il West released on DVD for the first time in 2000, edited by the late Italian firm CVC. Alas, the title, cropped image 1.85, in no way corresponds to the tremendous visual sense of Sergio Leone. aware of having missed the shot, HVAC reissue the title in 2002, this time in version 2.35 the format Techniscope original, which was very Sergio Leone attached. This version is the most comprehensive available in the market for video editing, only in Italian and without subtitles. She made 2 hours 50 minutes and 43 seconds duration PAL.
Neither version published by Paramount, or the recent Italian edition MondoHomeVideo, much shorter, so do the same narrative and aesthetic niceties, in the extreme refinement of the assembly and its tempo so special.
If this DVD nearly 10 years of age is not technically perfect, the sense of a definition of a mean and sometimes odd colors (The sequence in the tavern Lionel Stander, a golden light in cinema, turns yellow) is still the most faithful to what we could see in theaters: a movie filled with light, the images burned the sunny South. In 1999, the French Cinematheque showed a new copy, dazzling, long version of C'era una volta il West , from Italy: the copy used by CVC?
We are far from the recent and very disappointing restoration proposed by Martin Scorcese and the Bologna Cinematheque, posted by Carlotta France, too short and mostly completely underexposed: all whites have turned blue, the light becomes cold most of the time. The image is out of sync as the lyricism of the notes of Ennio Morricone.
With luck, the amateur can still find here and there this year CVC, 2002. It is the indispensable reference for what was the movie in the cinema and probably in the spirit of Sergio Leone.
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