This is the greatest interviewer ever. He gets all that information out of De Niro by asking the questions through his body language.

De Niro in Once Upon a time in america, when he played as an old man, really broke my heart. He really knew how to put on an act of an old man who's made many terrible mistakes in his past.

Maybe Martin Scorsese should restore that interview too.

After godfathers, mean streets, and Scarface, Sergio Leone still managed to make a great gangster movie based on friendship , betrayal, greed and sex.genius

Props to this guy for getting Bobby to say more than 4 words

The original shooting-script, completed in October 1981 after many delays and a writers' strike that happened between April and July of that year, was 317 pages in length. At the end of filming, Leone had about 8 to 10 hours' worth of footage. With his editor, Nino Baragli, Leone trimmed this down to almost 6 hours, and he originally wanted to release the film in two movies with three-hour parts.

Once upon a time in America there was a time when movies could actually be better than the books that inspired them.

saddest moment ' Noodles i slipped'.

First time I see De Niro talking so much in an interview, its great thanks for sharing.

Rewatched it the other day.. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.. It never feels like a 4 hour movie

the best film i ever watched

Best movie of all time

ahaha didn't know Leone was looking for Deapardieu, but De Niro is great in this masterpiece. Leone has declared "De Niro is incredible. He accepted to make the movie at one condition: to shoot his scenes in chronological order. That was kind of a mess for production and so on, but I said ok. So, when we started to make the movie he was young and pro active also out of the set. But when he was old, at the end of the movie. De Niro was of course old out of the set, eating just a bit and go to sleep very early"

Missed my last train home, watching this masterpiece.... Unforgettable 👍

Can't that interviewer shut up for 1 minute and let De Niro finish his thought? Jeez ......

i loved this interview, Robert seems so comfortable, enjoying it. He has so much talent and we can see it while he talks

SERGIO LEONE IS A TALENT !!

This movie along with Deer Hunter made De Niro my all time favorite actor. On a side note, did you know De Niro almost refused to make the movie because Sergio urinated all over his toilet seat?

My favourite film of all time

which retained the film's non-chronological order but still left out several key scenes. The 139 minute American version was the version given wide release in America. Heavily edited by the Ladd Company against Leone's wishes, the film's story was rearranged in chronological order. Most of the major cuts involved the childhood sequences, making the 1933 sections the most prominent part of the film. Noodles'

Mann, how many times can this interviewer nod his head and not get a headache?

De Niro has been an Italian, Jewish, Irish gangster respectively in his movie life!

It’s a shame what happened to this movie. Originally Leone had an eight hour film, which he shortened in to six hours, made up of two three hour movies. For whatever reason, this was cut down into the 269 minute cut (Leone’s intent), but for Cannes 1984 this was cut to 229 minutes, which was released in Europe. Then when it was first shown in America, it was shown for critics. The only cuts made were to some violence and the two rape scenes. Then, without Leone’s permission, the Ladd Company had that version of the film completely recut and re-edited, removing about 90 minutes from the film, including the final scene with ‘secretary Bailey’ and re-worked the film to being in chronological order, that version saw a wide release in the US and it was destroyed by critics and audiences, notably Roger Ebert who called it a ‘travesty’ as well as ‘an incomprehensible mess without texture, timing, mood or sense.’ Ebert and his colleague, Gene Siskel also went on record praising the original cut of the film on their show, Gene even saying the uncut version was the best film of 1984, and the edited version was the worst. It was only after Leone’s death in 1989 that the restored uncut version was seen by many in America, and it began to receive more of that praise. Then in 2012, Leone’s intended 269 minute film was announced to be shown at Cannes, however, only 251 minutes were shown due to rights issues, this is the 4 hour 10 minute extended cut. Maybe one day we’ll see the original 8 hour film, unlikely, but maybe. If not, we’ll always have the 229 minute version, and maybe one day the intended 269 minute version. In general, Once Upon A Time In America is likely one of Leone’s finest works, a true epic crime classic, at least in my opinion, I could see why someone wouldn’t like it.

Watch this in whatever form you find on DVD, and you'll probably love it, as i did, back in '94 on UK telly. Frankly a gem of a film and perhaps one of my top 5. The Good is my favourite.

Once upon atim in america is a wonderful inspirataional tale, complete lovely hollywood dream

It's hard to see LEGEND getting old....

Best film ever!

A 256 minute restored version adding 26 minutes to the currently available 229 minute version screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This brings the film back the closest it has ever been to the original run time Leone first crafted. DVD releases The film was released on DVD in the late '90s. A two-disc special edition was released on DVD in June 2003. Blu-ray Disc releases

The first time I see DeNiro speaks comfortably like that

Once Ùpon a Time in America......THE BEST FILM IN THE CINEMA HISTORY......it's wonderful.......Noodlèss is my hero......Noodless is the lonely winner.....Wonderful!!.....Wonderful!!....... i saw this film 50/55 times......and always it is anew time to see another time......wonderful!!....wonderful!!

The producers refused (partly due to the commercial and critical failure of Bertolucci's two-part Novecento) and Leone was forced to further shorten the length of his film, resulting in a completed (i.e. scored, dubbed, edited, etc.) film of 229 minutes. Many people (including film critic Richard Schickel) assume that the flying disc scene was part of a longer sequence. Roger Ebert stated that the purpose of the frisbee scene is to establish the 1960s timeframe.

This movie is truly a wonderful film and of course you have A Legend in Robert De Niro involved in it as well. A fine Legend himself James Garner once said that the actor James Woods was the Finest Actor he had the pleasure of working with....nuff said right there.

1968 meeting with Deborah was excised, and the scene with "Secretary Bailey" ended with him shooting himself (albeit offscreen), rather than the famous garbage truck conclusion of the 229-minute version. This version flopped in the US and many American critics, who knew about Leone's original cut, attacked the short version viciously. Some critics compared shortening the film to shortening Richard Wagner's operas, saying that works of art that are meant to be long should be given the respect

Funnily enough, he's a random guy who just asked Robert directions to the toilet, but then Robert started mumling about Once Upon a Time in America so he decided he might as well sit down and film it.

they deserve. In the Soviet Union, the film was theatrically shown in the late 1980s, along with other Hollywood blockbusters such as the two King Kong movies. The story was rearranged in chronological order and the movie was split in two parts, one containing all childhood scenes and the other for adulthood scenes. The parts were run as two separate movies.[16] Except the rearrangement, no major deletions were made, and the film was rated as "16+" by the Goskino.

Finally watched the extended cut in its entirety. shortest 4 plus hours of my life, and among the most sublime film experiences I've ever had. Greatest gangster movie of all time, absolute masterpiece. I would kill to watch the 6 hour cut.

Great interview, by a great actor.

Son, now, we have to add Sergio Leone to the pantheon of the greatest directors of all time.

From the first moment I saw Jennifer Connolly, I fell in love with her

I hope i get to see the 4h 30m version or the 6 hour version one day.

The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in February 2011. The Blu-ray Disc contains a high definition, re-mastered 229 minute cut of the film.

I first saw this movie thirty years ago and it is 5 hours long. So good it explains life brilliantly. I.did not understand about the significance of life then but I do now. So emotional and tells about love, betrayal, greed, jealousy, drugs, gangsters, power and becoming wealthy and rich and poor and miserable.

Best movie ever made

There are three abridged versions of the film, two of which are currently available: The 229 minute version - When the 'complete' film was shown in America, it still had to be trimmed slightly to secure an 'R' rating. Cuts were made to the two rape scenes, and some of the violence at the beginning. Noodles' childhood flashback during his meeting with Bailey in 1968 was also excised. A network television version of three hours (without commercials) was prepared in the early-to-mid-1990s,

thanks for the upload, I've long waited for an interview in which Robert talks about Sergio. It's only a bit of a shame the interviewer's questions are cut out, because sometimes it's hard to figure out what the question was. still, great upload

Would love the whole 6 hour version.

Weird the questions are cut out.

3 ore di film che sembrano 1ora solo i capolavori assoluti hanno questa prospettiva grande De niro,woods ,morricone e soprattutto LEONE!

Itll be a while before we see a worldwide release of the extended cut. Its only out in Italy so far and its available on the internet.

Ironic that this interview was also cut up and shortened. Great stuff none the less.

it's out as far as i know and the restored scenes are on youtube already

will this version be comming out anytime soon

are you talking to yourself?

Mr. Uploader cut the questions for sure while editing the video, he probably does not know French? Since the questions were put in French not in English. the interviewer name is Patrick Simonin, editor in chief in TV5 channel, a french public media service.

Anyone know where you can get the original 6 hour version?? I have the 220min version but would love to see more.

Gr8 movie very underrated

Is there a follow up interview?

I wanna see it with just the interviewer talking

The interviewer is a French man, I used to see him on the Tv 5 monde channel. Very prolific interviewer

Can we get those extra 26 movies on bluray please

Sergio great direttore

They edited out the interview questions its not that hard to figure out

Best Movie I Ever Seen

De Niro has so much range. The film was incredible how realistic it is, except for the car dive, they were underwater talking LOL.

why does the camera keep switching to the interviewer just nodding? he doesn't even say anything just nods with his mouth slightly opened

Volumes a bit low

I wonder would he give me a gig in one of his movies Mr de Niro

Dawm good i interview

Qualcuno che fa un riassunto in italiano please?

Why don't they ever air this great film?

They call these shots "noddies" in the industry- usually used to cut between two shots of the interviewee so you don't see the gap in the filming. But in this case it's showing both individuals. Bit wierd.

So does this mean that a longer version mabey will come out? I heard that there was a 600 minute version from this movie, i hope i will see that one ever in my life.

I wish I know what Michael44 thought of his

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Lol love the editing

One of the greatest films ever made. I love the irony of Leone casting Italians to play Jews considering how Hollywood always cast Jews to play Italians, Mexicans, Asians etc.

Ladies and gentlemen......the Moovie

Who jumped into the rubbish truck in the last minute of the film?

Badessest gangster movie

They edited out the interview questions its pretty obvious use your brains its not hard jheeze

Robert ajlawju

A translate in Italian,no ???

You don't have to yell...

TOO. QUIET!! Turn up the volume, dammit!

noodles like a doctah

Noodles I slipped

God forbid the 6hrs 2 part film cause mortal couldn't handle something devine

Jeeze would you please spit it outta. Bob. Ma ma ma make your point man.

Elizabeth Montgomery was who Robert and James were both in love with when young. Robert never knew his best friend who he loved also wanted Roberts girlfriend until he became grown man and 29 years later his best p friend he loved took his girlfriend and had child, took his money and ruined Roberts life. Robert became poor on drugs he thought he killed his best friend to protect him. Friend made this suffer for 20 years invited him to his mansion and Robert realized his friend faked his death and made Robert think he killed him and he took everything from Robert. James Said I planned to ruin your life when we we're teenagers. Robert still loved his friend. James had become rich mayor.

its probably a great movie umm. umm... i dunno i dont watch movies um...

Ro 😘 I 😗 love you

I respect De Niro as a great actor ... one of the best minus the politics

This is one the greatest examples of why directors(and actors) hate producers. They come in with money and 0 talent. Hence why independant movies blew up in the 70s and 90s cause they didn’t have to deal with «money lenders» so to speak. Since the end of 90s, movies have reverted back to the old habbits where the only things that get financial backing are either reboots, remakes or brainless superhero movies that will pay themselves off on account of already being popular with kids and teenagers and grown-ups with kids who grew up on the said classics/comic books. Hence no artistic integrity or personal movies whatsoever(always few examples to the rule like Paul Thomas Anderson and QT).

Let's go Braydon.

He was great in that movie but it was James Woods who steals it

Sad to know that only 4 years later he would be tragically afflicted with TDS.

robert de niro is so inarticulate, damn.

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