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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 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. | 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 | Reviews | ||
* [[Hate Is My God review|Hate Is My God]] | |||
* [[Death Played the Flute review (morgan)|Death Played the Flute]] | * [[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/El_Bandido_Malpelo_review El Bandido Malpelo] |
Revision as of 20:16, 13 February 2019
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