Greatest Spaghetti Western's EVER...List...?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:27 pm

WTF, what version is that? definitely not the one i told you to get, which means you're either getting the wrong OAR or an edited version

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:57 pm

def. not the one i got. just wanted to post a pic of it and thats the best one i could find. got it from xploited.

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:01 pm

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:01 pm

drizzle wrote: 01. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (468 points)
02. Once Upon a Time in the West (395 points)
03. For a Few Dollars More (390 points)
04. A Fistful of Dollars (269 points)
05. The Great Silence (262 points)
06. The Big Gundown (175 points)
07. Django (159 points)
08. The Mercenary (123 points)
09. Companeros (118 points)
10. Death Rides a Horse (105 points)
11. A Bullet for the General (94 points)
12. A Fistful of Dynamite/Duck, You Sucker! (88 points)
13. Face to Face (80 points)
14. My Name is Nobody (64 points)
15. Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (47 points)
16. Sabata (42 points)
17. Cemetery without Crosses (40 points)
18. Keoma (37 points)
19. Day of Anger (35 points)
20. Run, Man, Run (33 points)

very decent list, although some of those are very hard to get a hold of

I've seen 17 and i'll easily recomment 16 of those.

highlighted is what ive seen. which 16 do you suggest...?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:02 pm

darkwingduck wrote:def. not the one i got. just wanted to post a pic of it and thats the best one i could find. got it from xploited.

oh good, didn't want you to get hosed for no good reason

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:15 pm

darkwingduck wrote:
drizzle wrote: 01. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (468 points)
02. Once Upon a Time in the West (395 points)
03. For a Few Dollars More (390 points)
04. A Fistful of Dollars (269 points)
05. The Great Silence (262 points)
06. The Big Gundown (175 points)
07. Django (159 points)
08. The Mercenary (123 points)
09. Companeros (118 points)
10. Death Rides a Horse (105 points)
11. A Bullet for the General (94 points)
12. A Fistful of Dynamite/Duck, You Sucker! (88 points)
13. Face to Face (80 points)
14. My Name is Nobody (64 points)
15. Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (47 points)
16. Sabata (42 points)
17. Cemetery without Crosses (40 points)
18. Keoma (37 points)
19. Day of Anger (35 points)
20. Run, Man, Run (33 points)

very decent list, although some of those are very hard to get a hold of

I've seen 17 and i'll easily recomment 16 of those.
highlighted is what ive seen. which 16 do you suggest...?

Companeros, Keoma, Cemetary Without Crosses, My Name is nobody should be your next pick ups, in that specific order

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:28 pm

ohhhh yeah definitely get companeros that movie is soooooo good very good very greedy indeedy

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:49 pm

Yeah, Nero going "you're grandfather was a faggot" is hard to beat

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:15 am

im halfway thru Big Gundown...i just thought id stop by pf real quick and mention that its really good.

edit...its fucking incredible!!!

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:32 am

yeah. big gundown is the schnitzle.

bumping this up there with the euro-crime shit just cause when i see them up in CYE, it makes me wet.

new flick on pre-order.

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w/ raquel welch!

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:07 am

darkwing look into getting Barquero is you have reg2 capabilities. best non-spaghetti that wants to be spaghetti western i've ever seen. lee van cleef bagging mexican bitches and warren oates smoking weed and shooting a river in frustration - pretty sweet.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:27 pm

I'm impressed that The Great Silence is the highest rated not-by-Leone movie there above Django. Loco is Kinski's non-Herzog best role.

Django Kill... should be much higher, though.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:29 pm

dude django kill verges on violent gay porn several times

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:31 pm

What's the lowdown on Death Rides A Horse? I'm not sure if I've seen it or not but the trailer looks really familiar.

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Copped Navajo Joe. Looking forward to watching that.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:35 pm

drizzle wrote:dude django kill verges on violent gay porn several times

Yeah, but in a, like, totally good way.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:37 pm

it's cool, i dig it. for some reason i always confuse it with Day of Anger though

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:06 am

some pretty cool SW movie posters from japan...

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index. ... from_Japan

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:37 pm

^^^

Very dope. God, I wish japanese poster art was the norm for the west instead of all the photoshop shit.

Has anyone seen Cutthroats Nine?

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drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:46 pm

i've seen a very shitty copy, i remember it being somewhat more violent than your usual sw but fairly routine otherwise

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:51 pm

I'm guessing it'll get a decent remastering if the remake starring Harvey Keitel gets off the ground.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:50 am

Watched Death Rides A Horse today and it's fucking awesome.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:55 am

you can't go wrong with lee van cleef in pretty much anything

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:03 pm

He pretty much reprises his gunslinger patriarch role from For A Few Dollars More and that's no bad thing. The scene where he strolls into the town dressed as a mexican peasant and wrecked shit there was incredible.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:09 pm

I Drive A Lexus wrote:
drizzle wrote:dude django kill verges on violent gay porn several times
Yeah, but in a, like, totally good way.

Kinda funny that drizzle hates on Django, Kill! for its homoerotic elements and yet he loves El Topo which gets even gayer at times. (I like both movies for the record)

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:21 pm

shut up tommy just cause i like a movie about a grown man traveling the desert with a naked boy doesn't mean i'm gay. that shit is metaphorical dawg.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:33 pm

drizzle wrote:shut up tommy just cause i like a movie about a grown man traveling the desert with a naked boy doesn't mean i'm gay. that shit is metaphorical dawg.

I was actually referring to the 20 minutes of monks getting buttraped at the beginning of the movie

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:39 pm

sigh i got nothing to defend myself with on that one

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:45 pm

Looks like there's a new book for me to check out.
http://www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=FAB105

THE EURO-WESTERN BEYOND LEONE

The success of Sergio Leone's 'Dollars' trilogy in the '60s sparked a gold rush, as a legion of European film-makers - many of them sharing the get-rich-quick mentality of Leone's mercenary anti-heroes - followed the master's lead to create some of the wildest Westerns ever made.

Cynical and stylish, bloody and baroque, Euro-westerns replaced straight-shooting sheriffs and courageous cowboys with amoral adventurers, whose murderous methods would shock the heroes of Hollywood Westerns. These films became box-office sensations around the world, and their influence can still be felt today.

Any Gun Can Play puts the phenomenon into perspective, exploring the films' wider reaches, their recurrent themes, characters, quirks and motifs. It examines Euro-westerns in relation to their American ancestors and the mechanics of the Italian popular film industry, and spotlights the unsung actors, directors and other artists who subverted the 'code' of the Western and dragged it into the modern age.

Based on years of research backed up by interviews with many of the genre's leading lights, including actors Franco Nero, Giuliano Gemma and Gianni Garko, writer Sergio Donati, and directors Sergio Sollima and Giuliano Carnimeo, Any Gun Can Play will satisfy both connoisseurs and the curious.

Complete with a foreword by Euro-Western legend Franco Nero, this stunningly illustrated reference guide takes aim at the lingering notion that the genre has little to offer beyond the 'Dollars' films and a fistful of others, exposing the full, vibrant history of the Euro-western.

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD
By Euro-western legend Franco Nero, star of Django, A Professional Gun and Keoma, among others.

INTRODUCTION
An overview of Euro-westerns, their origins and characteristics, plus the major professionals whose careers they launched, prolonged or transformed.

TARGET PRACTICE
Early Euro-westerns were hit-and-miss affairs, but A Fistful of Dollars is not the only film from the genre's formative period worthy of recognition.

A BULLET SPENT, A DOLLAR EARNED
In the wake of For a Few Dollars More, the genre matured and broadened its horizons, presenting a misanthropic world-view, leavened with irony, that perfectly matched the tenor of the times.

RELATIVES AND RELIGION
Many Italian Westerns skewed their stories towards the home market, serving up stereotypical stories of troublesome females, feuding families and a satirical or critical treatment of religion.

'GOD FORGIVES... I DON'T!'
Euro-westerns posit a world where betrayal is rife and violence ever-present, taking the theme of revenge to extraordinary extremes.

'DON'T BUY BREAD, BUY DYNAMITE'
Euro-westerns were unashamedly populist, and many of them adopted a left-wing stance in the late Sixties, reflecting the influence of radical film-makers and the political atmosphere of the times.

BEWARE OF FAKE GUNS
While American Westerns had Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, European film-makers invented a pantheon of their own, populated by the likes of Django, Ringo, Sabata, Sartana and Trinity.

COWBOYS, COMEDIANS AND KUNG FU STARS
Many Euro-westerns were hybrids not just of cultural traditions and film-making styles, but also tones, subjects and settings, with elements such as mystery, comedy, horror and martial arts not uncommon.

DESOLATION AND DECONSTRUCTION
The genre burned brightly but briefly, and by the early Seventies it was in decline. This chapter examines what these latecomers have to offer, and whether they have been dismissed too lightly.

WHO'S WHO IN EURO-WESTERNS
A biographical A-Z of the most important and prolific actors, directors, composers, etc.

EURO-WESTERN FILMOGRAPHY
A chronological listing of European Westerns.

About the author
Kevin Grant is a freelance journalist and film writer with a passion for perfectly crafted genre pieces, particularly Continental and Oriental productions. A fan of American westerns since childhood, he was led astray at an early age by the irreverent interpretations of Sergio Leone, whose radical visions placed him - and certain of his European contemporaries - alongside the likes of Peckinpah and Mann in the pantheon of maverick directors of westerns. He has contributed reviews and articles to a range of film publications including the Euro-western journal Blood, Money and Vengeance, European Trash Cinema, Delirium, Flesh & Blood and Hotdog. Any Gun Can Play is his first book.

Foreword by Franco Nero
As the alter ego of Django and Keoma, Franco Nero's iconic status among Euro-western aficionados is second to none. He gave vigorous performances in more than a dozen westerns in all, and he remains an impassioned ambassador for the genre. One of relatively few Italian actors to make an impact on a global scale, he has appeared in more than 120 films since his breakthrough in the mid-Sixties, alternating starring roles in popular movies with character turns in more prestigious productions. A frequent collaborator of Sergio Corbucci and Enzo Castellari, he has also worked with Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Elio Petri and John Huston, and has written, produced and directed for the screen.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri May 20, 2011 1:52 pm

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:09 pm

Cut Throats Nine is being released as part of a double bill this summer by Code Red.