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Here my favorite 50 SWDB films (not all of them strictly spag): | |||
* [[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]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io, La|El Puro]] | ||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[Goût de la violence, Le|The Taste of Violence]] | |||
* [[ | * [[Corri, uomo, corri|Run, Man, Run]] | ||
* [[Boot Hill|Boot Hill]] | |||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[10.000 dollari per un massacro|10.000 Dollars for a Massacre]] | |||
* [[Giorni dell'ira, I|Day of Anger]] | |||
* [[Se sei vivo spara|Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! ]] | |||
* [[Cangaçeiro, O'|O' Cangaçeiro]] | |||
* [[Pampa salvaje|Savage Pampas]] | |||
* [[Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I|The Long Days of Vengeance ]] | |||
* [[Quanto costa morire|Cost of Dying]] | |||
* [[Minuto per pregare, un istante per morire, Un|A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die ]] | |||
* [[Sfida dei MacKenna, La|Challenge Of The McKennas]] | |||
* [[Bandidos]] | |||
* [[Bandido Malpelo, El| El Bandido Malpelo]] | |||
* [[Odio è il mio Dio, L'|Hate Is My God ]] | |||
* [[Lo ammazzo come un cane... ma lui rideva ancora|Death Played the Flute]] | |||
* [[Dio perdona... Io no!|God Forgives, I Don't]] | |||
* [[Deadlock]] | |||
* [[Ultimo killer, L'|The Ultimate Killer]] | |||
* [[Keoma]] | |||
* [[Perché uccidi ancora?|Why Go on Killing?]] | |||
* [[Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti|Terrible Day of the Big Gundown]] | |||
* [[Sentenza di morte|Death Sentence]] | |||
* [[Vendetta per vendetta|Vengeance for Vengeance]] | |||
* [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]] | * [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]] | ||
* [[Dove si spara di più|Fury of Johnny Kid]] | |||
* [[A Pistol for Ringo]] | |||
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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 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 | 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 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. | ||
Reviews | |||
* [[Death Played the Flute review (morgan)|Death Played the Flute]] | |||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/El_Bandido_Malpelo_review El Bandido Malpelo] | |||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/La_caza_del_oro_review La caza del oro] | |||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/La_ciudad_maldita_Review La ciudad maldita] | * [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/La_ciudad_maldita_Review La ciudad maldita] | ||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Los_buitres_cavar%C3%A1n_tu_fosa_Review Los buitres cavarán tu fosa ] | * [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Los_buitres_cavar%C3%A1n_tu_fosa_Review Los buitres cavarán tu fosa ] |
Revision as of 02:23, 25 May 2018
Here my favorite 50 SWDB films (not all of them strictly spag):
- 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
- El Puro
- Duck, You Sucker
- The Big Gundown
- Compañeros
- Tepepa
- Cemetery Without Crosses
- The Bounty Killer
- A Bullet for the General
- A Town Called Bastard
- The Wind's Anger
- California
- The Mercenary
- The Taste of Violence
- Run, Man, Run
- Boot Hill
- Sonora
- Antonio das Mortes
- I Want Him Dead
- And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
- 10.000 Dollars for a Massacre
- Day of Anger
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
- O' Cangaçeiro
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 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.
Reviews