Apr
17
2008
I know, y’all probably thought you’d never hear me mention those spaghetti westerns again now that Fistful of Pasta is alive and kicking (which has been going quite well, incidentally). But I just wanted to share something with you that would be of interest to anyone either into cinema and/or political theory, in particular European political history of the later 20th century (yeah, you, Wes).
One of my contributors, a Dutchman living in Belgium by the name of Simon, has written an excellent essay about how the political climate in Italy was highly influential on the directors of many of those spaghetti westerns. It’s actually a pretty in-depth lesson in history and politics, much more than I can easily sum up in a few paragraphs here, so go and have a read for yourself, here. And as an added bonus, the words Bush, Clinton, Obama, and McCain are nowhere to be seen in it.
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Dec
20
2007
Review below the jump….
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Nov
23
2007
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Nov
4
2007
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Oct
13
2007
Gianni Garko stars in this run-of-the-mill Spag Western.
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Sep
13
2007
Another Anthony Steffen spaghetti western that offers nothing new to the genre, and is an excercise in mediocrity.
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Aug
15
2007
Hoooooo boy. Every now and then you watch a movie that’s so bad, it’s awesome, because it has you laughing out loud. Antonio Margheretti’s “The Stranger and the Gunfighter” (1974) is one helluva entertaining piece of crap. And boy, is it crappy.
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Aug
2
2007
Today, it’s a look at “A Stranger in Town”, directed by Luigi Vanzi (as Vance Lewis), and released in 1966. This one stars Tony Anthony as, of course, a stranger who rolls into the town of Cerro Gordo, right after a group of Mexican bandits, led by Anguilla, played by Frank Wolff, a genre regular you may have seen in The Great Silence and Once Upon a Time in the West. Anyways, the bandits have secretly killed the Mexican army officers who were waiting for a shipment of gold from the U.S. Cavalry, and have stolen their uniforms. The Stranger, who knows some of the cavalry, offers to help the bandits get the gold in return for getting a cut of it.
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