spaghetti western
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Topic: spaghetti western
Posted By: fusionfreak
Subject: spaghetti western
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 04:53
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Duck you sucker is my all time favourite film.I love Sergio Leone's works but this one is his masterpiece.James Coburn and Rod Steiger are great,Ennio Morricone's soundtrack is fabulous and it's so moving,so committed  .The other four are marvellous too so which one is your choice?------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 04:57
^^I'm sorry, I don't know any of the non-Leone films...so I won't vote, but my faves are The Good the Bad & The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West...both 5/5 masterpieces...
Having said that, 'Duck You Sucker' is certainly an underrated 4/5 film...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 05:14
| a great genre, finally showing audiences a dark, realistic side of Western American life |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 11:07
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DJANGO directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero. Imagine if all the surrealism of El Topo was less self-conscious, and you have an idea what sort of movie Django is. Admittedly, storytellingwise it's not as good as anything Leone made but it has this hazy, dream-like quality I really like.
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 13:20
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Good choice too Toaster Mantis,Django is a great movie.And the darkness often found in these westerns
can be felt while playing italian crime films from the 70's(=polizioteschi)such as Street Law(a great one with Franco Nero and a superb soundtrack by Guido and Maurizio de Angelis)or The Big Racket(with Fabio Testi)or Milano Caliber 9........ ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 18:53
| I would go off that list and go with "Once upon a time in the West". A great Leone film with Henry Fonda as the bad guy. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 02:03
| My top favorites are Django, Good Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. I wasn't too fond of Duck you Sucker as it was a bit too drawn out and goofy. Especially Morricone's soundtrack of "shoms". Although I did enjoy the large explosions. |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 04:55
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I agree these shoms may appear too much but I find this soundtrack so great!Duck you sucker seems to
have many shortcomings and I easily understand this but each time I see it I say wow!Moreover it's good
to see The People win against stupid landowners,priests and army.And the large explosions are great Bro Spence! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 16:19
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"Django" reminds me of a joke I heard in my childhood. A bus conductor checks the tickets and asks those without to buy one. He comes across a man with a cowboy hat who says: "Django won't pay", revealing his colt. This happens day after day until the bus conductor finally finds the courage to ask timidly: "And why will Django not pay"? Replies Django: "Django has monthly ticket". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 13:04
Good joke ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 13:49
 ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: October 07 2008 at 16:30
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For any people interested in,important book released in November 2008:Il était une fois le western européen by Jean Francois Giré(128 pages added).Available from bazaaretcompagnie.com under suscription till 15 october(55 euros)after 75.I don't know if an english version will come out but it's something to check out! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 07 2008 at 19:02
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Where's the Trinity movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill??
Best (and most hilarious!) spaghetti westerns there is!
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 07 2008 at 19:08
| I forgot to add "Spegetti Western" by Primus. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: October 07 2008 at 20:01
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"Once Upon A Time In The West" it is. Charles Bronson actually turns in a performance of relative nuance. And Fonda is even more gone than his character in "Fort Apache."
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 10:00
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I only know 3 out of 5 ...but, boy how i love those Italian westerns!! And The Man With No Name Clint Eastwood is one of a kind.
Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda are not shabby in the best movie of them all: Once Upon a time In The West''
Not to forget the great Lee Van Cleef ....Django is great too!
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:11
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I am a big fan of Italian Western...I voted for Duck You Sucker my favourite Leone : (I prefer the French Title "Once Upon A Time The Revolution") closely followed by Once Upon A Time In The west
BTW on the double DVD editions of the Leone Westerns you have exellent comments by Leone specialist Christopher Frayling who has also released a great book about the Leone Westerns
otherwise some of my personal lesser known favourites:
Sergio Solima : Faccia A Faccia (excellent showdown between Gian Maria Volonte and Thomas Milan)
Segio Corbucci : Il Grande Silencio (with a post 68 political background and )
Lucio Fulci : The Four Riders Of The Apocalypse ( strange surreal film)
Enzo G. Castellari : Ceoma (maybe the best film of Franco Nero)
Tonino Valeri : My name is Nobody (excelent reflection on the Western genre,
BTW the film was not directed by Leone who was only the producer but had his name in big letters on the poster ,Valeri , who worked first as assistant for Leone, directed another great film wil Lee Van Cleef and Guilano Gemma The Days Of Anger
most of these films above have also excellent soundtracks by Morricone
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 12:12
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Good choice Alucard,I really dig the ones you quoted and I have to see My name is nobody again I haven't played it for years.Tomorrow I will watch Once Upon a time in the revolution(for the 27th time).Soundtracks are so good too.Vamos a matar Companeros! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 13:56
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Salut FF,
great to see an Italo Western fan here! Sometimes you just earn a pitiful look when you say that you like these great films.
BTW try to get the double DVD edition of My Name Is Nobody, there is an interesting documentary about Tonino Valeri. Have you seen the second Nobody by Damiano Damiani (again Leone's name in big letters
 ) "Un genio, due compari, un pollo" with Miou Miou and Robert Charlebois? Not as good as the first, but interesting....PS where do you live?
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: October 10 2008 at 04:12
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Hello French progger Alucard,I live in Concarneau,Brittany and you?Thanks for the advice about My name
is nobody,I haven't seen the one with Miou Miou and Robert Charlebois.I agree with what you say:people
have too much prejudice against italo westerns,it's a shame.I remember a book I read 15 years ago:there
were excerpts of french critics 'writings(from Telerama,Nouvel Obs,Les cahiers du cinema).They were very hard on Sergio Leone,too bad!Sergio was a genius and so were Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: October 10 2008 at 05:12
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I love Brittany : I was in Concarneau some years ago. We spent a week this summer in Quimper and St.Marine, but it rained nearly all the time (but it rained also in the south .....
I live In Paris, so whenever you come to Paris say hello and we can have a drink and see a concert or a western....
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: October 10 2008 at 05:29
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Thanks Alucard,nice of you!I will do so.Next week I'm going to Paris but it's just a step in my trip to Progrésiste Festival.I will stay in Paris 2 or 3 hours,not much.Here is my mail:[email protected] you own the book by Jean Francois Giré?See you later ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |