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I watched ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' more than ten times when shown in the theatres in the late sixties and early seventies. For forty years I avoided the non-Leone spaghetti westerns, out of pietism. However, sometime in 2012 I started wondering; as Leone made five great films all by himself, maybe his other Italian film-maker colleagues achieved five decent films all of them together. I ended up watching about 150 spags in the next 15 months, using the SWDB as a roadmap, everything from Greek tragedy to slapstick comedy. I found a number of perfectly good anti-oppressive political films, and an even larger number of maybe not so perfect, even far from perfect, but perfectly amoral, bleak, noirish westerns, different from Leone’s films. This, I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting… | <div style="float:right;width:350px;border:1px solid gray; padding:5px; margin:5px;"> | ||
These are my favorite 50 (not strictly spag) SWDB films | |||
* [[C'era una volta il West|Once upon a Time in the West]] | |||
* [[Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]] | |||
* [[Grande silenzio, Il|The Great Silence]] | |||
* [[Per qualche dollaro in più|For a Few dollars More]] | |||
* [[Per qualche dollaro in più|For a Few dollars More]] | |||
* [[Bandidos]] | |||
* [[Faccia a faccia|Face to face]] | |||
* [[Per qualche dollaro in più|For a Few dollars More]] | |||
* [[Resa dei conti, La|The Big Gundown]] | |||
* [[Vamos a matar, compañeros|Compañeros]] | |||
* [[Mercenario, Il|The Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]] | |||
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I watched ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' more than ten times when shown in the theatres in the late sixties and early seventies. For forty years I avoided the non-Leone spaghetti westerns, out of pietism. However, sometime in 2012 I started wondering; as Leone made five great films all by himself, maybe his other Italian film-maker colleagues achieved five decent films all of them together. | |||
I ended up watching about 150 spags in the next 15 months, using the SWDB as a roadmap, everything from Greek tragedy to slapstick comedy. I found a number of perfectly good anti-oppressive political films, and an even larger number of maybe not so perfect, even far from perfect, but perfectly amoral, bleak, noirish westerns, different from Leone’s films. This, I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting… | |||
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These are my favorite 50 (not strictly spag) SWDB films
I watched Once Upon a Time in the West more than ten times when shown in the theatres in the late sixties and early seventies. For forty years I avoided the non-Leone spaghetti westerns, out of pietism. However, sometime in 2012 I started wondering; as Leone made five great films all by himself, maybe his other Italian film-maker colleagues achieved five decent films all of them together.
I ended up watching about 150 spags in the next 15 months, using the SWDB as a roadmap, everything from Greek tragedy to slapstick comedy. I found a number of perfectly good anti-oppressive political films, and an even larger number of maybe not so perfect, even far from perfect, but perfectly amoral, bleak, noirish westerns, different from Leone’s films. This, I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting…
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