Montana Smith said:
In the beginning there was only one Django.
Why yes, yes there is.
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Montana Smith said:
Quentin played a character called Piringo in Sukiyaki Western Django:
Which was wildly entertaining despite his being in it. Who knew a samurai-western mashup would work so well?
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Also: For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area who might like to check out some of the original Spaghetti westerns on the big screen, Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive is having a short run of 'em starting tomorrow.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
7:00 p.m. Duck, You Sucker (The better title: A Fistful of Dynamite)
Sergio Leone (Italy/Spain, 1971). Score by Ennio Morricone! In torrid Mexico, just in time for the undoing of Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship, the bandito Juan (Rod Steiger, sputtering in Spanglish) teams with nitroglycerin expert Sean Mallory (James Coburn) to make a few holes with the “holy water.” Leone's strangest concoction—a mix of high camp, booming ordnance, and radical zeal.(158 mins)
Saturday, January 12, 2013
8:10 p.m. The Mercenary
Sergio Corbucci (Italy/Spain, 1968). Score by Ennio Morricone! The revolution will not be narcotized in Corbucci’s rabble-rousing rebellion, which follows a Mexican peasant leader Paco Roman (Tony Musante), a taciturn mercenary (Franco Nero), and oppressed silver miners as they battle businessman and a psychotic thug (Jack Palance).(105 mins)
Thursday, January 17, 2013
7:00 p.m. A Bullet for the General
Damiano Damiani (Italy, 1966). Gian-Maria Volontè plays El Chucho, a badass bandit bent on exploiting the revolution, whose brother is the demented priest El Santo (the feral one, Klaus Kinski). The action is packed in this compressed concentrate about deceitful perversion and political conversion. (118 mins)
Saturday, January 19, 2013
8:45 p.m. China 9, Liberty 37
Monte Hellman (Italy/Spain, 1978). The director of such acid oaters as The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind samples the spicy red concoction of Spaghetti for this latter-day Western, starring Warren Oates and Fabio Testi as two gunslingers setting their sights on railroading moguls and their freight car full of hired thugs. (102 mins)
Friday, January 25, 2013
9:10 p.m. Navajo Joe
Sergio Corbucci (Italy/Spain, 1966). Score by Ennio Morricone! A pre-stardom Burt Reynolds is Navajo Joe, who’s on the warpath after his wife is killed. Part of Ennio Morricone’s score, complete with embedded screams, was lifted for Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 2. (92 mins)
Sunday, January 27, 2013
5:00 p.m. Sabata
Gianfranco Parolini (Italy/Spain, 1969). Spaghetti Western stalwart Lee Van Cleef glares his way across a town of “upstanding citizens”—and takes them all on—in this brutal Western. A character’s concealed “banjo gun” was later lifted by El Mariachi. (107 mins)