The Spaghetti West

Americans may have lost interest in Western pictures after the 1950s, but our European cousins carried on the tradition of the Wild West horse opera. This IFC original documentary celebrates the history of the Spaghetti Western — those classic films made by Italy's finest filmmakers — including the great Sergio Leone. Celebrate your love of the Italian Western with clips from over 600 Italian cult classic, plus insightful interviews with Clint Eastwood, composer Ennio Morricone, and many others.

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An American Affair

When model-turned-actress Gretchen Mol first arrived on the scene in noteworthy '90s films like "The Funeral" and "Rounders," lazy journalists started whistling "It girl," that hyperbolic phrase given to all ingénues who fulfill three criteria: (1) they're pretty, (2) they're charming and (3) they have multiple projects being released around the same time. Some actresses don't survive the overhype machine and burn out as the next hot thing comes along, but Mol persevered, worked with directors like Woody Allen, Neil LaBute and James Mangold, and found further success with starring roles in "The Notorious Bettie Page" and TV's new hit "Life on Mars." Her latest film is director William Sten Olsson's 1963-set "An American Affair," an unusual hybridization of the sexual coming-of-age tale (enter "Birth" star Cameron Bright) and the JFK conspiracy thriller, in which Mol stars as a Washington D.C. bombshell, abstract painter and Kennedy paramour who gets in over her head on both the federal and neighborhood fronts. By phone, Mol chatted with me about the film, motherhood, Abel Ferrara and life after being the "It girl."

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