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Welcome to the LAST TAKE podcast.

Hosted by author A. J. Black and podcaster Sam Stokes, Last Take looks at the final films of directors, seeking to find in these often lesser-seen efforts what made them legends of cinema in the first place.

In this episode, they go back to 1984 and look at Once Upon a Time in America, the final directorial effort of Italian auteur Sergio Leone, with Robert de Niro in the main role.

Leone's career as a striking creative who transforms the Western and stamps a combination of epic lens and exploitative violence on cinema is examined, as they look at just how fitting and impressive Leone's last take was...

Host / Editor

A. J. Black

Co-Host

Sam Stokes

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Title music: 'Dismantle' by Peter Sandberg (c) epidemicsound.com