Many of the most controversial and exciting films of the 20th century are westerns, such the Outlaw with Jane Russell in her memorable film debut - shelved for years before finally receiving approval - to many of
our Spaghetti Westerns for their portrayal of explicit violence.
Not exact matches
This is my Southwest spin on the classic Italian recipe «Eggs in Purgatory» and is a breakfast fit
for Mr.
Spaghetti Western himself, Clint Eastwood.
These worthies have forgotten that Locke was Oscar - nominated
for her portrayal of a suicidal small - town girl in Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) while Eastwood was still grinding out
spaghetti westerns.
The soundtrack
for Django Unchained makes use of music from a number of
spaghetti westerns in a mix with a few original songs and a splendid mash - up featuring James Brown and 2Pac but everything flows together and genuinely feels of a piece.
When Calvin Candy's servant explains his role in maintaining the estate, Django replies that the white man is «almost like a nigger,» a bold remark punctuated with one of several ostentatious zooms lifted from the
spaghetti western vernacular — allowing
for yet another moment of unlikely humor.
Aficionados of
spaghetti westerns in general and Sergio Corbucci's movies in particular will relish the opportunities to pick through the easter eggs, which range from passing allusions (a cameo by original «Django» star Franco Nero, a saloon named
for Corbucci's «Minnesota Clay») to subtler qualities funneled into the story's DNA.
For his version of a spaghetti western, though, he doesn't just explode the conventions of the genre — he does for slavery what he did for World War II in Inglourious Baster
For his version of a
spaghetti western, though, he doesn't just explode the conventions of the genre — he does
for slavery what he did for World War II in Inglourious Baster
for slavery what he did
for World War II in Inglourious Baster
for World War II in Inglourious Basterds.
As
for the music park, Tarantino enlisted the aid of Ennio Morricone, the famed composer of many
Spaghetti Westerns - A real treat!
Inspired by the
Spaghetti Westerns and celebrating the
Western genre with an interesting twist, Good
for Nothing follows an odd romance and the resulting emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings
for a woman he has kidnapped.
Reimagining the
Spaghetti Western: The Horse and Stunts of Django Unchained goes
for 13 minutes, 46 seconds and provides comments from writer / director Quentin Tarantino, stunt coordinator Jeff Dashnaw, producers Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher, stunt men Nick Dashaw and Freddie Hice, boss wrangler Rusty Hendrickson, special effects supervisor John McLeod, quick draw expert Thell Reed, and actors Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz.
Valerii favors the spare visuals of most
spaghetti westerns, emphasizing the isolation and emptiness of the Spanish plains standing in
for the American southwest, and the disc presents it all with a sharp clarity and vivid burnished palette.
Duccio Tessari is not one of the directors known
for spaghetti westerns.
Seems Franco Nero (CAMELOT, DJANGO, FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE, DIE HARD 2, and he's a voice
for the upcoming CARS 2) has apparently revealed to Movieplayer (in Italian) that he's working on some sort «
Spaghetti Western» project with Quentin Tarantino.
A Pistol
for Ringo / The Return of Ringo: Two Films by Dessario Tessari (Arrow, Blu - ray) A Fistful of Dynamite (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray) Duccio Tessari is not one of the directors known
for spaghetti westerns.
This one plays more like a
spaghetti western, with five star students of the Five Venoms clan gone mercenary to search
for hidden treasure and ready to kill one another
for it.
Quentin Tarantino has dabbled in just about every genre at this point in his career, so it's only natural that he would try his hand at a
Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are kno
Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a
spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are kno
western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are known
for.
After the recent reveal of a new crowdfunded project called Wild West Online, as well as rumors that the next Far Cry might be a
spaghetti Western, it seems that our prediction was correct — so much so, that Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't even need to be released
for this effect.
As
For a Few Dollars More is sandwiched between the film that set the trend for Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars, and the one that would prove to be a masterpiece of the genre, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, its quality is often forgott
For a Few Dollars More is sandwiched between the film that set the trend
for Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars, and the one that would prove to be a masterpiece of the genre, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, its quality is often forgott
for Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars, and the one that would prove to be a masterpiece of the genre, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, its quality is often forgotten.
For example, Spike Lee said of Django Unchained that slavery was «not a
Spaghetti Western» and he wouldn't «disrespect his ancestors» by seeing the film; Denzel Washington had a long feud with Tarantino over what he also felt were the director's racists sensibilities.
David Martinez asserts that «40s and «50s music is used to re-create the «60s era in Days of Being Wild and a score by composer Frankie Chan and «inspired by Ennio Morricone's
spaghetti western music» is used
for the martial arts epic Ashes of Time.
And there were five I've never seen, so I have these to look forward to: Elem Klimov's «Come and See,» Sergio Corbucci's «The Great Silence» (a
spaghetti western), Wong Kar - Wai's «In the Mood
For Love,» Bela Tarr's 7.5 - hour «Satantango,» and Hayao Miyazaki's anime «Spirited Away.»
Payne's characters may see themselves as figures in a
spaghetti -
western - style landscape of moral absolutes, but their real value lies in their refusal to inhabit the Hollywood hero - to - villain spectrum; they're banally human and humanly banal, lovable
for the very qualities that make them terrible.
A Pistol
for Ringo & The Return of Ringo: Two Films by Duccio Tessari (1965) The original Ringo films introduced another iconic hero to the
spaghetti western; a clean - cut sharp shooter who was markedly different to Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name.
Tarantino once again shows his unparalleled love of cinema as he personifies the
spaghetti western genre in the same regards and respect as he accomplished with Death Proof
for grindhouse films.
Extras: Audio commentaries
for both films by
Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke; «They Called Him Ringo,» an archival featurette with star Giuliano Gemma; «A
Western Greek Tragedy,» an archival featurette with Lorella de Luca and camera operator Sergio D'Offizi; original trailers; gallery of original promotional images; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.
During the yesterday's San Diego Comic - Con panel
for The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino, a huge admirer of classic
Spaghetti Westerns, revealed that legendary composer Ennio Morricone will be providing an original score
for the film.
Leone is even more notable than the other directors on our list as not only did he never receive an Oscar
for direction he didn't even once get a nomination despite producing such classic Spaghetti Westerns like the trilogy of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ug
for direction he didn't even once get a nomination despite producing such classic
Spaghetti Westerns like the trilogy of A Fistful of Dollars,
For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ug
For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Guest spots on «The Office» and «Eastbound & Down» are one thing, but starring in a Spanish - language comedy that's equal parts
spaghetti western and telenovela is a pretty daring career move even
for someone as seemingly fearless as Ferrell.
Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known
for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from
spaghetti westerns to science fiction films as well).
This slow - moving Iranian art film makes way
for a non-stop display of impeccably gorgeous celluloid, black - and - white images dancing against a grainy hi - fi score that's in part Sergio Leone
spaghetti Western and equally a rave scene.
Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known
for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from
spaghetti westerns to science fiction...
That heightened world of the telenovela meets the bad Mexican
spaghetti western — all of that seemed like it could be a recipe
for a type of movie you hadn't seen before.
Baker also touched on series creator Hideo Kojima: «I don't know what's going on at Konami, but I love Kojima, and I love him as a dude, I respect him as a game maker, as really one of the first cinematic game makers that we had, someone that really understood in a very Sergio Leone
spaghetti western way of making film in a game, and
for giving us one of the greatest video game characters ever in the multiple iterations of Snake.»
The (anti--RRB- heroes face plenty of wayward friendly fire before Colt comically mistakes them
for actual heroes advancing the front into enemy territory, and a late scene lampoons Eastwood's
spaghetti westerns, as our boys face off — on a war - torn French lane — with the Nazi enemy.
It's still a wall - to - wall homage to the»70s
spaghetti Westerns and kung fu movies that inspired the young Quentin Tarantino, and those who dismiss him
for only making movies about movies will have all the ammunition they need.
Bonus materials on the unrated Blu - ray release include audio commentaries
for both films by
spaghetti Western experts; They Called Him Ringo, an archival featurette with star Giuliano Gemma; A
Western Greek Tragedy, an archival featurette with Lorella de Luca and camera operator Sergio D'Offizi; Revisiting Ringo, a new video interview with critic and Ringo fan Tony Rayns; gallery of original promotional images; and reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.
-- Sean Kelly [LIKED] While the film stumbles a bit in the fourth act, I was all in
for this feminist
spaghetti western.
Not a great film, but still entertaining enough
for fans of
spaghetti westerns.
The question before us:
For whom is this blend of
spaghetti Western and «Chinatown» meant?
Actor and director Clint Eastwood as Monco in the
spaghetti western «Per qualche dollaro in più» («
For a Few Dollars More»), 1965.
Dennis Hopper, Joe Strummer, Grace Jones and Courtney Love all team up
for 1980s
spaghetti western from director Alex Cox.
Instead, the star is Franco Nero, a charismatic Italian actor better known
for being in
spaghetti westerns, with Django perhaps his most notable.
Nero, a major contributor to the
spaghetti western genre, also understands Morricone's value to the genre, and offers his own incisive comments between the composer's own analytical thoughts on the quality of his early Sergio Leone scores (with Morricone describing Fistful of Dollars as «the worst
western music that I've ever done
for Leone»).
The
western genre, long associated either with American film and the lone cowboy holding fast to independence in a changing landscape, or the
spaghetti western, in which European directors examined more forcefully the often insidious nature of the more corrupt side of the cowboy / frontier life, is given fresh eyes in Five Fingers
for Marseilles.
Often dressed in an anachronistic cassock and with a rather astonishing sweep of leonine hair, Gleeson cuts an imposing and authoritative figure, like something from a rough - edged
spaghetti western dropped on the dramatic west coast of Ireland.The role provides a fantastic showcase
for the actor, as he captures the inner conflict and outward placidity of the character.
Personally, I can't wait to hear a «Magnificent Seven» ride of dino - avengers, or a «Good, Bad and the Ugly»
spaghetti western showdown
for the genre - spanning musical world that's been so wonderfully set up on the ranch here.
In a few minutes by car it is possible to reach the various golf courses in the surroundings, the best beaches of Almeria or the legendary desert of Tabernas, which has been used
for shooting numerous Hollywood films as well as
Spaghetti Westerns.
As
for the art, it's a pitch perfect parody of the Spanish poster art
for the classic
spaghetti western, Abilene Town.
Sombrero is a
Spaghetti Western party game
for 2 - 4 players.
It reminds you of the best soundtracks of old
spaghetti Western movies and provides the perfect courageous spurring
for kicking other outlaws» butts.