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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, is I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting… | 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, is I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting… | ||
'''Reviews''' | |||
* [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/Vendetta_per_vendetta_Review Vendetta per vendetta] | |||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Antonio_das_Mortes_Review Antonio das Mortes] | |||
* [https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/A_Town_Called_Bastard_Review A Town Called Bastard] | |||
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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, is I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting…
Reviews
