March 2025 recap

Welcome to March 2025 :incoming_envelope: newsletter from the Spaghetti Western Database, your regular newsletter of what happened last month in the world of European westerns.

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:newspaper: NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN :spiral_calendar: MARCH 2025:

The year 2025 is also the year we’ve turned 20! Did we mention that? Yes we did.… if you have some idea on how we should celebrate this, let us know.

:boom: Emerging, ongoing and future improvement projects

At this stage I want to refer you to once more the December recap which had a huge rundown of all the things we’re doing and where you could help out with. For February, like for January, let’s keep things short and sweet. We keep improving things all around the SWDb and we’ll continue reporting in more depth on progress on certain projects later in the year.

:clipboard: … as always: join the SWDb, help out, it will make it better :slight_smile: You don’t have to become a full time editor or official staff to contribute. Anything from being active in the forum to correcting mistakes to joining entire improvement projects is more than welcome. From all over the world, in all languages, we welcome help!

:moneybag: :dollar: Those of you who feel inclined to donate a dollar or euro or yen or real or whatever, head here. PayPal has improved the donation experience, check it out - and you don’t even need a PayPal account to donate. Also, whenever you shop at Amazon, click on one of the SWDb’s Amazon links first, it doesn’t matter which one and what you buy. We can really use the cash to beef up the server infrastructure, and if we can get enough donations we should finally hire someone to fix some major issues with the underlying tech to make the SWDb better and safer again. Donate - The Spaghetti Western Database

SWDb :heart: 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.
Here is our latest list: ‎Howard Hughes' Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns [official], a list of films by The Spaghetti Western Database • Letterboxd

:dvd: Home video news:

In March we saw mostly re-issues, and an upgrade to HD of a Bud Spencer flick in Italy. Unfortunately the UK Chato’s Land release seems to be not worth the bother.


April will make it all up to our UK friends with two new releases, one of them kicking off some overdue Leone love… see below.

The big item this spring to summer is Arrow Video’s UK 4K UHD Dollars Trilogy. Extras and specifications are now available in our database. These look amazing so far, and you can already pre-order them (e.g. through the Amzn links in the SWDb). We are just a bit concerned by the omission of Italian audio on all but the first. And of course, it remains to be seen how well they took other labels’ errors into account in providing a mostly uncensored viewing experience.
A Fistful of Dollars will be released in April (learn more and pre-order), For a Few Dollars More in May (learn more and pre-order) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (including the documentary Sad Hill Unearthed) in June (learn more and pre-order)

Plase do egularly check the calendar, we often update it several times a day!
:calendar: Visit the SWDb home video release calendar

:church: Obituaries

Our head of obits, the spaghettiologist @Tom_B had to update the boot hill cemetery with an unfortunate 10 new obituaries over the course of the last four weeks.
:arrow_right: Check out “Cemetery with crosses”

:balance_scale: 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!
:arrow_right: Sartana - BluRay Kritik - The Spaghetti Western Database

:open_book: New book!

Unboxing video:

Review:

See you next month! And also, see you on BlueSky.

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