Once Upon A Time In America (2024)

1. AFI|Catalog - American Film Institute

• A 227-minute version of Once Upon a Time in America premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 1984. The summary for this record represents that version of ...

• In 1933 New York City, a woman returns to her apartment and is confronted by three gangsters who demand to know the whereabouts of her boyfriend, David “Noodles” Aaronson. She claims not to know, and they kill her. The men receive a tip that Noodles is at a Chinese theater. However, they fail to realize he is in the opium den in back. Reclining on a mat, Noodles clutches a newspaper announcing the deaths of three bootleggers. He recalls walking past the crime scene and watching police tag one of the badly burned bodies, “Maximilian Bercovicz.” Smoking the pipe, Noodles remembers the last time he saw his three friends alive. Suddenly, an attendant warns him about the gangsters in the theater. Noodles leaves undetected, and in the morning, retrieves a key from his friend, “Fat Moe.” He goes to a train station to claim a suitcase, discovering nothing but newspapers inside. Dazed, he buys a one-way ticket to Buffalo, New York. Thirty-five years later, Noodles returns and visits Fat Moe, re

2. Once Upon a Time in America Is a Movie That Can Never Be Too Long

• Sep 22, 2021 · The truth is, Leone did have up to 10 hours of finished cinematic material, which he cut down to six hours. He wanted to put it out in two parts ...

• Make time, consigliere, the newest cut of Once Upon a Time in America on Netflix is only 27 minutes longer than The Godfather, Part II.

3. Once Upon A Time In America | The New Yorker

• Just about all the incidents in this three-hour-and-forty-seven-minute film echo scenes in Hollywood gangster movies, but the director, Sergio Leone, ...

• Just about all the incidents in this three-hour-and-forty-seven-minute film echo scenes in Hollywood gangster movies, but the director, Sergio Leone, inflates them, slows them down, and gives them a dreamy obsessiveness. He transmutes the lower East Side settings of those gangster movies to give the genre a richer, more luxuriant visual texture. His widescreen view of a group of Jewish kids who start with petty crime and move into big-time racketeering is set in 1921, 1933, and 1968, but not in that order. His theme is the betrayal of the immigrants’ dream of America, and the story begins and ends in an opium den where Noodles (Robert De Niro) puffs on a pipe while episodes of his life of killings and rapes and massacres drift by and a telephone rings somewhere in the past. This epic is a compendium of kitsch, but it’s kitsch aestheticized by someone who loves it and sees it as the poetry of the masses. It isn’t just the echoing moments that keep you absorbed—it’s the reverberant dreamland settings and Leone’s majestic, billowing sense of film movement. With Jennifer Connelly, who’s marvellously vivid as the young Deborah; Darlanne Fluegel as the beautiful streamlined blond Eve; and Tuesday Weld, who brings a gleam of perversity to the role of a moll.

4. Once Upon a Time in America Movie Review | Common Sense Media

• Jun 1, 2023 · Parents need to know that Once Upon a Time in America is an epic gangster movie, considered a classic, and in a league with the Godfather movies ...

• Complex gangster epic has strong violence, sex. Read Common Sense Media's Once Upon a Time in America review, age rating, and parents guide.

5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - Film Forum

• ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA ... Approx. 229 min. DCP. Jewish gangsters Robert De Niro and James Woods — growing up in the 20s, bootlegging in the 30s, with only ...

• ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – Part of THE CITY: REAL AND IMAGINED Series Friday, May 12 – Thursday, June 8 at Film Forum

6. Once Upon a Time in America | Movies - Warner Bros.

• Sergio Leone's original vision of Once Upon a Time in America comes to life in this fully restored Extended Director's Cut.

• Sergio Leone’s original vision of Once Upon a Time in America comes to life in this fully restored Extended Director’s Cut.

7. Once Upon a Time in America - Where to Watch and Stream - TV Guide

• Once Upon a Time in America ... Sergio Leone's epic chronicles the rise and fall of Jewish mobsters in Brooklyn over 50 years. Robert De Niro, James Woods.

• Find out how to watch Once Upon a Time in America. Stream Once Upon a Time in America, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide

8. Once Upon a Time in America - Rotten Tomatoes

• Told in flashbacks, the film follows Noodles from a tough kid in a Jewish slum in New York's Lower East Side, through his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss ...

• In 1968, the elderly David

9. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Video Dailymotion

• Duration: 3:49:21Posted: Jul 7, 2020

• Once Upon a Time in America (Italian: C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 drama film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods with music by Ennio Morricone. David "Noodles" Aaronson struggles as a street kid in a neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1918. He and his friends Patrick "Patsy" Goldberg, Philip "co*ckeye" Stein and Dominic commit petty crimes under the supervision of local boss, Bugsy. Planning to rob a drunk as a truck hides them from a police officer, they're foiled by Maximillian "Max" Bercovicz, who jumps off the truck to rob the man himself. Noodles confronts Max, but a crooked police officer steals the watch that they are fighting over. Later, Max blackmails the police officer, who is having sex with Peggy, a young girl and Noodles' neighbor. Max, Noodles, Patsy, Dominic and co*ckeye start their own gang, independent of Bugsy, who had previously enjoyed the police officer's protection........

10. One of the Best Movies About America Was Made By an Outsider - Esquire

• Jul 3, 2018 · Sergio Leone's crime epic Once Upon a Time in America gracefully depicts the brutality of our country, particularly for immigrants brave enough ...

• Sergio Leone's crime epic "Once Upon a Time in America" gracefully depicts the brutality of our country, particularly for immigrants brave enough to enter its borders.

11. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) directed by Sergio Leone - Letterboxd

• A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts ...

• A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

12. How 'Once Upon a Time in America' Became Sergio Leone's Butchered ...

• In Once Upon a Time in America, he deals with the illusion of the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of Jewish kids whose entire childhoods are drenched ...

• By Koraljka Suton I am not fascinated, as you say, by the myth of the West, or by the myth of the gangster. I am not hypnotized, like everyone east of New York and west of Los Angeles, by the mythical notions of America. I’m talking about the individual, and the endless hori­zon—El

13. Sergio Leone's original 'Once Upon a Time in America' out on DVD

• Oct 2, 2014 · The film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna at film laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata in association with Andrea Leone Films, Scorsese's the Film ...

• Italian director Sergio Leone never saw the American version of his final film, the 1984 gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert De Niro.

14. Once Upon a Time in America | Larsen On Film

• The extended director's cut of Once Upon a Time in America runs 251 minutes. But there's an early montage in Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster epic that's really ...

• "...an epic of blinkered nostalgia."

15. Once Upon a Time in America movie review (1984) | Roger Ebert

• Jan 1, 1984 · Once Upon a Time in America is an absolute masterwork of cinema, it is art in motion. A surreal and dreamlike experience, full of epic ...

• This was a murdered movie, now brought back to life on home video. Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America", which in its intended 227-minute version is an epic poem of violence and greed, was chopped by ninety minutes for U.S. theatrical release into an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood, or sense. The rest of the world saw the original film, which I saw at the Cannes Film Festival. In America, a tragic decision was made. When the full-length version (now available in cassette form) played at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, I wrote:

16. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

• May 25, 2023 · A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must ...

• A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

17. 13 Epic Facts About 'Once Upon a Time in America' | Mental Floss

• Oct 19, 2015 · 13 Epic Facts About Once Upon a Time in America · 1. Sergio Leone turned down The Godfather to make it. · 2. Leone got (reluctant) input from the ...

• It wasn't until after Sergio Leone's death that his final movie came to be appreciated.

18. Once Upon a Time in America - Metacritic

• Summary A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ...

• A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

19. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - MUBI

• In 1968, David “Noodles” Aaronson returns to NYC, where he once had a career in the criminal underground. Most of his friends are gone, yet he feels his ...

• In 1968, David “Noodles” Aaronson returns to NYC, where he once had a career in the criminal underground. Most of his friends are gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. The city makes him remember his childhood as a tough kid in a Jewish slum until his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss.

20. Once Upon a Time in America | film by Leone [1984] | Britannica

• …last film he completed was Once upon a Time in America (1984), a grand-scale and somber drama about Jewish gangsters in New York City who encounter greed, ...

• Other articles where Once Upon a Time in America is discussed: Sergio Leone: …last film he completed was Once upon a Time in America (1984), a grand-scale and somber drama about Jewish gangsters in New York City who encounter greed, betrayal, and regret.

21. Quentin Tarantino's love of 'Once Upon a Time in America'

• Nov 26, 2022 · Set across the history of 20th-century America, Leone's film follows Noodles (Robert De Niro), who must confront the violence of his early life ...

• An all-time classic.