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Gunslingers, ponchos, bounty hunters and mean, manly looks feature every high noon on Sundays throughout December at Watershed.
December Sundays at Watershed presents four of Sergio Leone’s classic, operatic Spaghetti Westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West), films that both paid tribute to and yet tore apart every other Western that came before. Famed for moody close ups juxtaposed with epic lengthy long shots, stately pacing and haunting, original music from Ennio Morricone, Leone single-handedly reinvented the genre - a genre where the hero became an anti-hero and the mysterious stranger in town was reinvented into a self-serving, ruthless criminal.
These films have at their core the inscrutable gunslinger with no name (step forward Mr Eastwood, and later Mr Bronson) who is famously short on words but big on action. Greed and revenge are the motivating factors for these iconic anti-lawmen who, although deeply flawed, bring a rough and ready justice to men who feed off those less powerful than themselves. Even when the bullets are flying, the bodies are falling and the looks flying around the screen like daggers, becoming even more tight-lipped and grim you can’t help but cheer them on.
These four genre-busting films are just £3.50 per screening and you can make a full morning of it with a lip-smacking full breakfast in the Café/Bar before the film - where if you show your cinema ticket you will receive £1.00 off. Or indulge in a special pasta dish of the day after the screening, also with a £1.00 off.
Don’t miss your chance to catch these classics on the big screen.
[The promotion is in two parts. Part II below]
December Sundays sees a season of Sergio Leone’s classic, operatic Spaghetti Westerns, films that both paid tribute to and yet tore apart every other Western that came before. Famed for moody close ups juxtaposed with epic lengthy long shots, stately pacing and haunting, original music from Ennio Morricone, Leone single-handedly reinvented the genre - a genre where the hero became an anti-hero and the mysterious stranger in town was reinvented into a self-serving, ruthless criminal.
These films have at their core the inscrutable gunslinger with no name (step forward Mr Eastwood and Mr Bronson) who is famously short on words but big on action. Greed and revenge are the motivating factors for these iconic anti-lawmen who, although deeply flawed, bring a rough and ready justice to those who feed off those less powerful than themselves. Even when the bullets are flying, the bodies are falling and the looks flying around the screen become even more unbelievably tight-lipped and grim you can’t help but cheer them on.
All the films are just £3.50 and you receive £1.00 off a tasty full breakfast in the Café/Bar before the screenings or a £1.00 off the pasta dish of the day after the screening.
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Showing in Spaghetti Sundays :
Spaghetti Sundays: A Fistful of Dollars Sun 06 Dec
Join us for a season of Sergio Leone’s operatic Spaghetti Westerns, epic films that both paid tribute to and deconstructed everything that came before. Further Information
Spaghetti Sundays: For a Few Dollars More Sun 13 Dec
Eastwood returns as a bounty hunter forced into a reluctant partnership with old pro Mortimer to bring in the territory’s most psychopathic bandit. Further Information
Spaghetti Sundays: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sun 20 Dec
One of the most ambitious, graphic, and stylistically influential Westerns ever made. Further Information
Spaghetti Sundays: Once Upon a Time in the West Sun 27 Dec
A pensive, wistful meditation on death, capitalism and greed, this is a grandiose, mythical ode to everything Leone loved about America and its movies.
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