Borrowed Horses: Christopher Frayling on ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Friday, February 19, 2010

Christopher Frayling on ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

We're not watching Once Upon a Time in the West because we don't have enough time and because, as clever as the cinematic choices are, I think The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the better film, but what I hope you get from Frayling is just how conscious Leone is of the choices he makes and their effects. The man is a craftsman par excellence.

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JenniferFebruary 23, 2010 at 1:59 PM
I think Leone's craftsmanship is the reason I am enjoying watching The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly more the The Searchers. This movie isn't as straight forward as The Searchers - you have to really watch it (not just listen) to get Leone's artistic vision.
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Sian GriffithsFebruary 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM
I couldn't agree more. It really asks you to watch it closely. I never have any doubt, when watching Leone's films, that I'm in the hands of a master craftsman.
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Sian Griffiths

Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah where she serves as assistant professor of English at Weber State University. Her work is published in Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, Cave Wall, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Clackamas Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Permafrost, Versal, Court Green, and The Georgia Review, among other publications. Her story “What Is Solid” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Janet Burroway included her poem, “Fistful,” in the third edition of Imaginative Writing. Siân's debut novel, BORROWED HORSES, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in October 2013.

Publications

"Dislocated" (essay), MARY, http://maryajournalofnewwriting.wordpress.com/nonfiction/sian-b-griffiths/
"Pearls" (short story), Waccamaw. http://www.waccamawjournal.com/pages.html?x=358
"The Chicago Art Institute: A Guided Tour" (poem), Timber [forthcoming]
"Fistful," "Persistence of Geese," and "Proud Flesh" (poems—anthology reprints), The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. V: Georgia, Ed. William Wright.Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press [Forthcoming]
“Fistful” (poem—anthology reprint), Imaginative Writing 3rd ed., Ed. Janet Burroway. New York: Penguin, 2010: 81.
“The Love of Reindeer” (poem), Versal 8 (2010): 6.
“Book Brief” on Dan Albergotti’s The Boatloads (book review), The Georgia Review 63.4 (Winter 2009): 722.
“My daughter, four, confronts an autumn window and all its contradictions” (poem), Literary Mama. http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2009/07/my-daughter-four.html
“Proud Flesh” (poem), Cave Wall 6 (Summer/Fall 2009): 44-45.
“Bread” (essay), Oregon Literary Review. http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v4n2/OLR-griffiths.htm
"Two Mermaids” (poem), The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review (Winter 2009): 8.
“Persistence of Geese” (poem), Permafrost (Spring 2008): 42-3.
“Coming Home” (excerpt from Borrowed Horses, a novel), Mangrove Review (Spring 2008).
“What Is Solid.” (short story), Versal 5 (2007): 77. [Pushcart Nominee]
“Fistful” (poem), Ninth Letter 4.2 (Fall/Winter 2007): 45.
“Building Tall” (short story), Clackamas Literary Review 11 (2007):114.
“Dissolving Pearls: Charlotte Brontë’s Textual Hieroglyphs” (scholarly article), Women’s Writing 14 (2007): 49-69.
“Paper Hats” (short story), Quarterly West 62.1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 85.
“Book Brief” on Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost (book review), The Georgia Review 60.1 (Spring 2006): 256-57.
“Somewhere in the Sawtooths. June.” (poem), Court Green 3 (2006): 97.
“Book Brief” on Dennis Covington’s Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of an American Dream (book review), The Georgia Review 59.3 (Fall 2005): 730-31.
“Why I’m Not Pretty” (memoir), The River Oak Review 2.1 (Fall 2004): 26-33.
“What the Scorpions Know” (personal essay), Riverteeth, a Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 5.2 (Spring 2004): 75-76.

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