Quentin Tarantino is a director with an in-depth knowledge of cinema history. Here, we look at the Italian director who inspired him to become a filmmaker.

Sure, Sergio Leone as a director never pointed his camera at Italy (for which stuffy film critics never forgave him) and his films were not pitched at the state-sponsored festival circuit ...

Directed by Sergio Leone, the famous director who helped to popularize and promote the entire spaghetti Western genre, Once Upon a Time in the West remains one of Gunn's favorite movies of all time.

...Invented America: An homage to Italian director Sergio Leone, credited as the pioneer of the Spaghetti Western subgenre. Features interviews with Quentin Tarantino ...