The best revisionist Westerns take the classical Western themes and update them for modern times, taking a realistic look at ...
Even though The Good, The Bad and the Ugly defined spaghetti Westerns forever, there were other masterpieces in the genre it ...
Spaghetti Westerns had their heyday in the 1960s and 70s with a style all their own. The term originated because most of the Westerns from that era were filmed in Italian studios and featured several ...
In the 1960s and ’70s, a new style of film began to emerge in Europe: the spaghetti Western. On the surface, these films mirror classic American Westerns like “3:10 to Yuma” and “High Noon.” However, ...
Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...
Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More (1965). Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Spaghetti Westerns were one of the most innovative — not to mention unlikely — subgenres ...
When he moseyed into New Orleans to film the final scenes for 1974’s “My Name is Nobody,” Sergio Leone was, in fact, already somebody. By then, the Italian director’s name had become synonymous with ...
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Producers reportedly are planning a remake of “A Fistful of Dollars,” a classic “spaghetti western” that made Clint Eastwood a movie star. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gianni Nunnari and Simon ...