Tag: Sergio Corbucci

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  The Great Silence (1968)

  August 5, 2020

  1960s, Drama, Italian Cinema, Political, Spaghetti Western, Western

  Spaghetti westerns were a genre that would be programmed on SBS Saturday Cult Movie Night and I remember seeing the end of The Great Silence (1968; Il Grande Silenzio) when I was younger. Recently, the film is referenced as an influence on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, name dropped as one of the filmmaker’s favourite… Read.

• Django (1966)

  September 26, 2019

  1960s, Action, Italian Cinema, Spaghetti Western, Western

  The original Django (1966) is a spaghetti western that obviously Tarantino paid tribute in Django Unchained taking the name, the theme song and even having original Django Franco Nero pop up in a cameo. The original Django film is itself a riff (or cash-in copycat) on A Fistful Of Dollars in that it’s based on… Read.

• The Mercenary (1968)

  September 19, 2019

  1960s, Italian Cinema, Spaghetti Western, Western

  In my never ending quest to watch movies scored by Ennio Morricone (particularly as popularised and used by Tarantino – ‘L’Arena’ from this film was used in Kill Bill Vol. 2 when she busts out of the grave), I watched The Mercenary (1968 – Il mercenario), another spaghetti western. A smooth Polish mercenary with a… Read.