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These are my favorite 50 (not strictly spag) SWDB films | These are my favorite 50 (not all strictly spag) SWDB films | ||
* [[C'era una volta il West|Once upon a Time in the West]] | * [[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]] | * [[Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]] | ||
* [[Grande silenzio, Il|The Great Silence]] | * [[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]] | ||
* [[Per | * [[Per un pugno di dollari|A Fistful of Dollars]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Django]] | ||
* [[Faccia a faccia|Face to face]] | * [[Faccia a faccia|Face to face]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Giù la testa|Duck, You Sucker]] | ||
* [[Resa dei conti, La|The Big Gundown]] | * [[Resa dei conti, La|The Big Gundown]] | ||
* [[Vamos a matar, compañeros|Compañeros]] | * [[Vamos a matar, compañeros|Compañeros]] | ||
* [[Tepepa]] | |||
* [[Une corde, un Colt|Cemetery Without Crosses]] | |||
* [[Taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io, La|El Puro]] | |||
* [[Precio de un hombre, El|The Bounty Killer]] | |||
* [[Quien Sabe|A Bullet for the General]] | |||
* [[A Town Called Hell|A Town Called Bastard]] | |||
* [[Collera del vento, La|The Wind's Anger ]] | |||
* [[California]] | |||
* [[Mercenario, Il|The Mercenary]] | * [[Mercenario, Il|The Mercenary]] | ||
* [[Goût de la violence, Le|The Taste of Violence]] | |||
* [[Corri, uomo, corri|Run, Man, Run]] | |||
* [[Sonora]] | |||
* [[Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, O|Antonio das Mortes]] | |||
* [[Lo voglio morto|I Want Him Dead ]] | |||
* [[Buitres cavarán tu fosa, Los|And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Mercenario|Mercenary]] | |||
* [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]] | * [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]] | ||
Revision as of 14:08, 4 December 2016
These are my favorite 50 (not all strictly spag) SWDB films
- Once upon a Time in the West
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Great Silence
- For a Few dollars More
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Django
- Face to face
- Duck, You Sucker
- The Big Gundown
- Compañeros
- Tepepa
- Cemetery Without Crosses
- El Puro
- The Bounty Killer
- A Bullet for the General
- A Town Called Bastard
- The Wind's Anger
- California
- The Mercenary
- The Taste of Violence
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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