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 [...]
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Tags: Exploitation · Italian · Spaghetti Western · Western
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Compañeros is a solid effort from director Sergio Corbucci (Django, The Great Silence), bringing back Franco Nero (Django, Texas Adios) 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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