I’ve made my list now for this years fest, no particular theme really. Some that I’ll finally take off from my to-watch list and some revisits for the fun of it.
1.His Name Was King
2.Dynamite Jim
3.Sartana Kills Them All
4.Killer Calibre 32
5.Starblack
6.God Made Them… I Kill Them
7.The Beast
8.In The Dust of the Sun
9.The Ruthless Four
10.And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
11.Gunman Of One Hundred Crosses
12…And Now Make Peace With God
13.Black Killer
14.Wanted Johnny Texas
15.God Is My Colt
16.The Devil Was an Angel
17.Clumsy Hands
18.Terrible Day of the Big Gundown
19.Adios, Hombre
20.Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
I’ll start with these, hopefully I will make it Who knows, this might be my new top 20 by the time we reach December
Are we all ready, gentlemen? I don’t think I am. I mean, I know what I intend to do this year, I’m just not sure I’m ready for it. Ah well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Don’t ever tell anyone to do something you wouldn’t be prepared to do yourself, eh? Yep, this year, I’m going to follow my own throwaway advice and watch the same spaghetti western, thirty times, once per day throughout the not-so-merry month of November and, as the poster above suggests, the spaghetti of choice for this particular gauntlet will be A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964). It ticks all the right boxes for the challenge. At ~100 minutes, it’s not too long. It’s quality enough to (possibly) withstand many, many viewings. But, if it can’t, and I end Spagvember vowing never yo watch the accursed A Fistful of Dollars ever again, well, it’s far enough down my own personal list of favourites that I won’t have lost too much. It’s quite the balancing act picking the right spag for the gig, but we’re here now and I’m either going to enjoy the challenge or go (even more) f#cking insane in the attempt.
Cervi: Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
-I started my spagvemberfest with the recent Scandinavian blu-ray release of Today We Kill… It’s a ok film but never been a favorite of mine. It has a great cast but some of the actors are underused, Berger especially. 7/10
Can someone write a little blog post in the blog category about the history, origins and the “how to start with” Spaghvemberfest? Some little intro that we can share around also on social media
And I’m kicking off my SpagvemberFest with the Sergio Leone classic A Fistful of Dollars (1964), in which our anti-hero protagonist and indeed everybody else in the movie tries - and fails - to pretend not to be in an unabashed reworking of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo from three years previous. One Damned Day at Dawn, Sergio Rips Off Akira! That’s a pretty snappy title for a spag, eh?
I’m trying to watch films I haven’t seen before so started Spagvemberfest with Bad Man’s River… not the greatest start but some fun elements from a great cast.
It’s good to see you kicking straight into SpagvemberFest, Dave! Hopefully it won’t put you off spaghettis for the next twelve months (it can often have that effect on many). You’re in good company, anyway; this is also @Admin’s first year of actually doing it, too. With COVID-19 lockdowns across all of Europe he’s finally run out of excuses not to!
Guess I’ll be joining this year, considering the pandemic situation and the new lock down in my region, I should have plenty time to moan a couple of spags. I’ll be most likely sticking to the ones available in YouTube, mostly because nowadays is where I spent more time watching visual media and there are tons of spags there. The first one I’ve picked was “I senza dio”. A very enjoyable one I must say.
Wow, it’s getting crowded in here, even the boss himself has joined us. We only needed a pandemic and a global lockdown for that to happen, but let’s not dwell on that.
Tonight I am viewing Those Dirty Dogs (1973), not sure what to expect.
Btw brownie points for those who link the movie titles to the database
I am continuing with a way overdue re-watch of Companeros, which is artsier than I remember it, but also this time I am watching it with the German dub which tries really hard to be funny… maybe too hard. At any rate, it’s flawed but unjustly overlooked in Corbucci’s oevre. Yes, it went down better with the European audience while The Mercenary went down better with the American audience (it is also the better film IMO), but they are both each a side of the same coin, Corbucci’s double punch stab at the revolutionary genre. Recommended.