Welcome to the August 2025 
newsletter from the Spaghetti Western Database, your regular newsletter of what happened last month in the world of European westerns.
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NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN 
AUGUST 2025:
Emerging, ongoing and future improvement projects
No updates here this month. Some great contributions keep being made on a daily basis to improve location information, and in the forums we have additions on newspaper coverage of film releases, which should be a good lure for you all to read and browse.
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Letterboxd
If you’re a Letterboxd user, we hope you follow the official SWDb Letterboxd HQ account. Click here to learn more about that. And your reminder: all the revised film pages in the SWDb have a direct link to their respective LB entry and the bottom.
Home video news:
August was a solid month, with Arrow’s GBU 4-disc release hitting shelves (immediately sold out, but the non-limited editions of these releases can already be ordered), Plaion continuing its series, and a nice surprise for US-based fans: a new sublabel is dabbling in spaghetti westerns and reportedly this new release of Forgotten Pistolero is in fact quite decent (available from Diabolik only).
September will see the rest of the aforementioned re-issues of the Arrow releases, plus some re-issues in Germany, a much welcome release in the UK (with good extras) and maybe after a number of postponements, “Mesito” will finally see the light of day in Italy.
Please check the calendar regularly, we often update it several times a day!
Visit the SWDb home video release calendar
Obituaries
Our head of obits, the spaghettiologist @Tom_B had to update the boot hill cemetery with an unfortunate 13 new obituaries over the course of the last four weeks.
Check out “Cemetery with crosses”
Reviews:
Please contact us if you want your reviews published. We are especially looking for reviews of movies that have no, or very few, reviews in the SWDb. We publish them in all languages, and you don’t need to be a professional writer!
800 Bullets
Save the date
Press release: https://www.almeriawesternfilmfestival.es/es/el-paisaje-de-tabernas-y-los-poblados-conforman-el-cartel-de-awff-2025-que-rinde-homenaje-a-los-60-anos-de-la-muerte-tenia-un-precio/
See you also on BlueSky, where we are hitting the mark of 600 followers this week.