139 - Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Dead Beat Film Society

English - April 04, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
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Lemme ask you a question: How long is too long?
Join the Dead Beat Film Society as we discuss famous Jewish actor Robert DeNiro, the surprisingly great James Woods, Sergio Leone, capital 'F' film, Jewish gangsters, the unreliable narrator, doing opium, graphic rape scenes, unredeemable anti-heroes, our interpretations, the ambiguous ending, essentials of gangster movies, reckoning with art, watching this on a plane, the end of the gangster movie, the treatment of women, the end of the New Hollywood era, how crazy was prohibition?, the different 2 different edits and why this bombed, whether long films should ever exist, unraveling the timeline, Ennio Morricone and the best and worst film of 1984.
So pour a glass of that illegal hooch and smash play for an in depth Once Upon A Time In America film analysis!

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