Question: Which film has the director who is older, Once Upon a Time in Mexico or The Imperfect Lover?

It is the third and final film in Rodriguez's" Mexico Trilogy", and it is a sequel to 1993's" El Mariachi" and 1995's" Desperado". Once Upon a Time in Mexico( also known as Desperado 2) is a 2003 American contemporary western action film written, directed, produced, photographed, scored, and edited by Robert Rodriguez. The film features Antonio Banderas in his second and final performance as El Mariachi. In the film, El Mariachi is recruited by CIA agent Sheldon Sands( Johnny Depp) to kill Armando Barillo( Willem Dafoe), a Mexican drug lord who is planning a coup d'état against the President of Mexico. At the same time, El Mariachi seeks revenge against a corrupt general responsible for the death of his wife, Carolina( Salma Hayek). It was Rodriguez' first big budget film to be shot in digital HD. " Once Upon a Time in Mexico" received positive reviews but was criticized for reducing its protagonist to an almost secondary character in his own trilogy and for having a convoluted plot. In the special features of the film's DVD, Rodriguez explained this was intentional, as he wanted this to be his" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" of the trilogy. " Once Upon a Time in Mexico" grossed$ 98 million. <SEP> Walter Alabaster West( 9 November 1885 – 3 July 1958) was an English film director and producer. He was a partner in the film production company Broadwest Films. <SEP> The Imperfect Lover is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome and Cameron Carr. <SEP> Milan Luthria is an Indian film director who works in Hindi films. He is best known as the director of Ajay Devgan" Once Upon a Time in Mumbai"( 2010). He is the nephew of producer and director Mahesh Bhatt. <SEP> He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film" El Mariachi", which was a commercial success after grossing$ 2 million against a budget of$ 7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the" Mexico Trilogy Desperado" and" Once Upon a Time in Mexico". He directed" From Dusk Till Dawn" in 1996 and developed its( 2014–2016). Robert Anthony Rodriguez( born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. Rodriguez co-directed the 2005 neo- noir crime thriller anthology" Sin City"( adapted from the graphic novel of the same name) and the 2014 sequel,. Rodriguez also directed the" Spy Kids" films," The Faculty The Adventures of Sharkboy and LavagirlPlanet TerrorMachete", and. He is the best friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who founded the production company A Band Apart, of which Rodriguez was a member. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey. <SEP> Once Upon a Time in the West( lit. " Once upon a time( there was) the West") is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader, and Jason Robards as a bandit. The screenplay was written by Sergio Donati and Leone, from a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone. After directing" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on" The Hoods", which eventually became" Once Upon a Time in America". However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations. The original version by the director was 166 minutes( 2 hours and 46 minutes) when it was first released on 21 December 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on 28 May 1969," Once Upon a Time in the West" was edited down to 145 minutes( 2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is the first installment in Leone's" Once Upon a Time Trilogy", followed by" Duck, You Sucker!" and" Once Upon a Time in America", though the films do not share any characters in common. In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".