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Howard Hughes' Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns [official] 21 films
Once Upon a Time in the Italian West and The Kamera Guide to Spaghetti Westerns are excellent introductions to the…
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A collection of the spaghetti westerns watched during #Spagvemberfest 2024. As a source, we're using what our community members have…
The Top 20 Spaghetti Western Soundtracks [official] 20 films
In 2017 the SWDb started a process of nominating the best spaghetti western soundtracks. After an elaborate voting process, this…
The official Alternative Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns 20 films
At the SWDb we have the top 20 essentials (see the other list), but we also have an Alternative Top…
Alex Cox's Top 20 Favourite Spaghetti Westerns [official] 20 films
The SWDb's Phil H. interviewed filmmaker Alex Cox back in 2009 on the occasion of the release of his latest…
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O’ Cangaceiro (the spelling is a bit nonsensical, in Portuguese it would just be “o cangaceiro", because "o" means "the") is part of a small exclusive club of films that really aren’t spaghetti westerns, because in fact they aren’t westerns at all, no matter how spaghetti they are. This film takes place in Brazil, in the 1920s, and while it bears all the trademarks of a revolutionary Zapata-style spaghetti western of the likes of Companeros, it’s nowhere near the wild…
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A heavily re-edited Italian version of this film turned this into a spaghetti western a few years later
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Excellent writing, story and characters, plus (for the most part) excellent English dub to boot. An overlooked early Eurowestern that packs a punch!
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In his 2008 review at the SWDb, Phil wrote about this epic revolution-centered spaghetti western:
"Corbucci's other mexican revolution western was Companeros made 2 years later and the two films, although very similar in many ways, make an interesting comparison. As the earlier film, The Mercenary has a slightly more serious tone and, without wishing to give the ending away, offers a more upbeat, optimistic conclusion; suggesting a positive future for the revolution and its activists. This reflects the optimimism…
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While Sergio Leone’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS may have been the film that elevated Clint Eastwood out of the B-movie and television world, propelling him along the path to international superstardom, it was their follow-up FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (aka PER QUALCHE DOLLARO IN PIÙ) that actually laid the foundations for the rest of the director’s career – with or without Eastwood in front of his camera. The central hook of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS had been to take…
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John e Juan. Tese e antítese. Cada um sendo absorvidos pelo seu oposto (as forças antagônicas e as forças revolucionárias). A revolução é explosiva, é violência divina, mas não é triunfante e nem ingênua.
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Oficialmente, el último Western del inigualable Sergio Leone.
Crítica seria 🚬🗿.
PRIMER PUNTO. El resumen de la odisea Western.
Con esta película me doy cuenta el gran amor que tenía al género, a pesar del mal trato de la productora a él, de engañarlo para hacer la película que sería su obra máxima, siempre supo defenderse en cómo hacer una película.
Lo increíble y realmente original de Leone es que de sus 5 western, ninguno es igual entre sí, incluso…
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Acts of solidarity contain love, and likewise love leaves signs of solidarity. The two are intertwined such that loving another is also enacting in solidarity with them, and once this happens you carry them with you in your life, you live with them instead of simply adjacent with them. The prior way of living has now fundamentally changed, and one cannot go back. True love is violent; revolution is violent. A real encounter (whether the stakes are one's love or…
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You all know this list, it's on LB a hundred times. Now that we're on here officially with an HQ account (do follow us), we thought it high time to present the official list and always updated with the current ranking as per our community procedure.
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