The Good, The Bad & The Ugly To Be Re-Released

Update: Dates And Venues Now Listed!

Park Circus are to be re-releasing the recently remastered 180 minute cut of Sergio Leone’s masterpiece throughout the Uk this August.

Update – August 5th – 2008

The dates and cinemas as of today are as follows…

London – BFI Southbank – from 1 August
Edinburgh – Filmhouse – from 1 August
Norwich – Cinema City – from 3 August
Bristol – Watershed – from 15 August
Newcastle – Tyneside – from 15 August
Workington – Plaza Cinema – 20 August
Dublin – Irish Film Centre – from 22 August
Liverpool – FACT – 5 September
Dundee – DCA – from 5 September
Glasgow – GFT – from 7 September
York – City Screen – 7 September
Leicester – Phoenix Arts – from 8 September
Bradford – National Media Museum – from 12 September
Manchester – Cornerhouse – 14 September
Stafford Film Theatre – 9 October
Dartington – Barn – 12 October
Belfast – QFT – from 24 October
London – Riverside Studios – 26 October
Liverpool – Philharmonic Hall – 5 December

We expected others to follow. If your favourite cinema is not included, give them a shout and perhaps they will schedule. It is available to screen on new 35mm prints and via Digital Cinema. Note that the first two films in the ‘Dollars’ trilogy are also available, via 35mm prints, to cinemas nationwide.

Hope this is useful.

Best wishes
John – Park Circus

The Hellbenders (1967)

Sergio Corbucci has directed some of the most entertaining and solid spaghetti westerns ever made, bringing the audience such classics as Companeros, Django, and The Great Silence.  He has made a habit of capturing visuals with a breath-taking flair and using an awe-inspiring soundtrack to bring his films to the forefront of western mythology (hell, I’d put them in the same league as Sergio Leone).  However, for The Hellbenders it seems as if Sergio Corbucci was in a rush, and instead of an epic spaghetti western, the audience is left with a fragmented, poorly-made C-grade American western.

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The Great Silence (1968)

The Great Silence is yet another amazing Spaghetti Western from Sergio Corbucci.  TGS stars Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu, For A Few Dollars More, Slaughter Hotel) as Loco, the bloodthirsty bounty hunter as he faces Silence, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, the mute gunslinger.  TGS is very different from both Django and Companeros as it is much darker in nature, and many, many times more serious than the others.  Corbucci really pushes the envelope as far as character, story and cinematography are concerned.  And, what great Spaghetti Western would be complete without music from Ennio Morricone?

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Django (1966)

Sergio Corbucci’s Django, to me, is one of the most rewatchable films, ever.  Not just as a spaghetti western, but in general, I could put this film on and never be bored.  The stories simple, the acting is solid and the pacing is almost perfect.  The soundtrack is superb thanks to Luis Enríquez Bacalov.  I can’t get that theme song out of my head!

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The theme for all of you interested:

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Compañeros (1970)

Compañeros is a solid effort from director Sergio Corbucci (Django, The Great Silence), bringing back Franco Nero (Django, Texas Adios, Keoma) to once again act in a Spaghetti Western with the talented director.  Also, least we forget, the incredible sound track is performed by Ennio Moricone.  With all of these things working for it, does Compañeros live up to its expectations?  Yes.  Is it the best spaghetti western ever?  No.  It is a great movie?  Yes.  It’s it Corbucci’s best?  No.  But, that doesn’t mean anyone that’s a fan of good cinema shouldn’t see this film.

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The Good, the Bad, and the F’n Awesome

Over here in the states, Chan-wook Park is well known, and highly respected among foreign film fans. It baffles my mind why one of his peers, Ji-woon Kim, isn’t as highly touted. Don’t get me wrong, Park is great, but Kim is an equally fantastic director. Chalk it up to the fact that A Tale of Two Sisters is really his only highly-publicized film in the US (it’s a travesty that his amazing A Bittersweet Life is still not available on DVD on these shores), but Kim is just as deserving of your attention as any other Korean directors today. If the trailer for his upcoming film The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is any indication however, his name will be on the tip of everyone’s tongue very shortly. Read on for a synopsis, and an incredible trailer.

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