While «My Name if Nobody» is one of the quirkiest
spaghetti westerns made.
Not exact matches
By the time Sergio Leone
made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled «
spaghetti westerns.»
(The notion of a German bounty hunter in the Old West only
makes sense, I think, in relation to the several
spaghetti western roles played by German actor Klaus Kinski; the surname of Django's wife pays homage to blaxploitation hero John Shaft, a rather brilliant means of bridging the gap between the far - reaching genre traditions that Tarantino loves).
Moviemaking geek Quentin Tarantino continues his mission to apparently
make at least one movie in every major genre with an expansive
Western which can't really pass itself off as a
Spaghetti Western despite having the typically bloated running time of one of Leone's epics.
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.
After Robert Rodriguez
made his $ 7,000 first film «El Mariachi» (1992) and his $ 3 million «Desperado» (1995), Quentin Tarantino told him they were the Mexican equivalent of Sergio Leone's first two
spaghetti Westerns.
Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and
spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film
makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.
Quentin Tarantino
made some noise this past week with the announcement that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair would be playing at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, but even more interesting is a report that he's finishing up the script to his next film, and it will be a
spaghetti western.
Bonus: • «Reimagining the
Spaghetti Western: The Horse and Stunts of Django Unchained» Featurette • «Remembering J. Michael Riva: The Production Design of Django Unchained» Featurette • «The Costume Designs of Sharen Davis» Featurette • «20 Years in the
Making: The Tarantino XX Blu - ray Collection» • Soundtrack Spot • DVD Copy
Spaghetti Westerns often feature similarly descriptive themes — from the iconic (Luis Bacalov's Django theme) to the bizarre (Sybil & Guy's «Keoma»)-- and viewed through the lens of Italian exploitation films, Bone Tomahawk starts to
make sense.
Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of Italian -
made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.
Sergio Corbucci's landmark
Spaghetti Western, The Great Silence, will
make its North American Blu - ray...
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.
Antoine Fuqua (SOUTHPAW, THE EQUALIZER), who previously acknowledged the influence of
spaghetti westerns on his approach to
making violent, anti - heroes / gunmen films, is attached to direct.
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.
A little originality goes a long way and you needn't even be all that original; Rango's biggest idea is to
make a
spaghetti western with computer - animated critters.
Everything that
makes Tarantino tick, old flicks,
spaghetti westerns and mano - a-mano head bashing, preferably with shotguns is stuffed into the 165 minutes of this near perfect movie.
As really one of the first cinematic game makers that we had, someone that really understood in a very «Sergio Leone» kind of
spaghetti western way of
making film, in a game.
In a film that's packed full of knowing references to movie classics, Ennio Morricone's soundtrack wisely steers clear of echoing his work in the
Spaghetti Westerns that
made him famous.
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 Ennio Morricone pieces
made sense, since he was the musical godfather of the
Spaghetti Western genre, but some of the other tunes were just too much.
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.
The year's weirdest big - budget movie owes more to
spaghetti westerns, silent comedies and midnight films like «El Topo» than to anything being
made today.
«John Wick» takes an unconventional approach to the action genre by combining Neo-Noir narrative with both
Spaghetti Western and Hong Kong action aesthetics,
making it a refreshing departure from «Taken» rip - offs.
After dabbling in just about every genre at this point in his career, it was only natural that he would eventually try his hand at
making a
Western, even if «Django Unchained» is more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, complete with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flou
Western, even if «Django Unchained» is more of a genre mash - up between a
spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, complete with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flou
western and a blaxploitation film, complete with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes.
In 1995, he
made his feature debut with the rare
spaghetti western spoof «A Fistful of Fingers.»
The Grand Duel / The Big Showdown / Storm Rider / Il Grande Duello (its original Italian moniker)
makes up half of Mill Creek Entertainment's recent
Spaghetti Western Double Feature Blu - ray Disc.
The analysis of TV
westerns is fascinating as is the
making of the first
spaghetti western in which an entire genre was invented in a collaboration / clash between Eastwood and Sergi
It's especially cool that it includes movie clips that'll
make you want to watch the original films - from
spaghetti Westerns to Ghostbusters.
She titled this documentary «A
Spaghetti Western on Lean Urbanism,» and it's well worth a watch if you're at all considering
making the move to a leaner and more appropriate dwelling.