30 Lupo: California (1977)
-I actually finished it today so my spagvemberfest contest period was exceeded by half a film. One of the best looking sw’s, great looking worn out sets and autumnal landscapes all soaked with mud. Gemma is good and there’s nice supporting roles by Berger and Undari. Too bad that it doesn’t have a decent script, it looks more like they shot a scene and then decided what to do next. More memorable score would have helped too. 6/10
Robert Hossein: The Taste of Violence (1961) 9/10
Blasco: Gunfight at Red Sand (1963) 6/10
Reinl: The Last Tomahawk (1964) 4/10
Caiano: Bullets don’t Argue (1964) 6/10
Marchent: Hands of a Gunfighter (1965) 5/10
Ferroni: One Silver Dollar (1965) 6/10
Band: The Tramplers (1965) 7/10
Baldi: Texas, Addio (1966) 6/10
Boccia: Kill or be Killed (1966) 4/10
Guerrieri: Johnny Yuma (1966) 7/10
Malasomma: 15 Scaffolds for a Killer (1967) 5/10
Lucidi: Greatest Robbery in the West (1967) 5/10
Pupillo: Django Kills Silently (1967) 4/10
Caiano: The Man Who Cried for Revenge (1968) 5/10
Fidani: Stranger, Say Your Prayers! (1968) 5/10
Siciliano: Taste of Vengeance (1968) 6/10
Fizzattori: I’ll Sell My Skin Dearly (1968) 4/10
Taylor: Five Man Army (1969) 7/10
Marchent: Awkward Hands (1969) 7/10
Carnimeo: Light the Fuse… Sartana’s Coming (1970) 7/10
Demichelli: Sabata the Killer (1970) 5/10
Croccolo: Black Killer (1971) 6/10
Bosch: And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1971) 4/10
Vari: Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead (1971) 8/10
Corbucci: What am I doing in the middle of revolution? (1972) 5/10
Bazzoni: Brothers Blue (1973) 6/10
Rosati:Those Dirty Dogs (1973) 6/10
Margheriti: Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) 6/10
Schamoni: Potato Fritz (1976) 4/10
Lupo: California (1977) 6/10
My theme was to approach the genre chronologically but instead of picking the best films of each year I watched mainly films that I had not seen for quite long time and wanted to re-watch but were so far bypassed in preference of bigger favorites. 2 eurowesterns were exceptions I had not seen before. Also some films I picked mostly because of the recent purchase of dvd. This selection formed a sampling of films that were mostly good but with only few great ones.
All in all, it was great fun but i think I won’t be having any spaghetti for December. I feel kinda crapulous at the moment.
Mine so far… (only the ones so far seen in Spagvember - there are some big players still unplaced as yet that are still to be seen)… in order of merit…
Cemetry Without Crosses 19.25
Bandidos 19
Face To Face 18.75
Night of the Serpent 17.75
One After Another 17.25
Find A Place To Die 17
A Man Called Sledge 16.75
A Hole in the Forehead 16.7
Duel in the Eclipse 16.66
Killer Kid 16.25
Black Jack 16.1
Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows 16
Five Giants From Texas 15.75
Requiescant 15.5
Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead 15.25
Cowards Don’t Pray 14.75
A Man Called Blade 14.5
Vengeance For Vengeance 14
Django, Last Killer 13.5
Last of the Badmen 12
Keoma 6
I still have…
The Dirty Outlaws… The Bounty Killer… El Puro… California… $10,000 for a Massacre… Vengeance is Mine… No Graves on Boot Hill… The Return of Ringo… Hate is my God… still to watch (and FAFDM don’t even need to do that) - to almost certainly break the Top 20.
I just noticed I’ve a lot of different directors too - not so many repeat performers - only one Leone, one Sollima… no Corbucci’s (The Great Silence could be due a revisit though?)
and it generally seems that it’s the lower budget spags that rock my boat for the most part.
Blimey!
Bad Man’s River 6.5/10
Reverend Colt 6.5
The Silent Stranger 9.5
Those Dirty Dogs 8.5 Four Dollars for Vengeance 8 On the Third Day Arrived the Crow 4
Blindman 10 Pecos Cleans Up 8
More Dollars for the McGregors 7 Finders Killers 2.5 Adios Companeros/Giù la testa… hombre 4 My Name is Pot… but They Call Me Allegria 7
Ringo, Face of Revenge 1
The Relentless Four 4
Gentleman Killer 8.5
Night of the Serpent 8
Red Blood Yellow Gold 7.5
Minnesota Clay 5
Find a Place to Die 6 Get Mean 7
Kill the Wickeds 8
Return of Clint the Stranger 2
Django Prepare a Coffin 6
Pistoleros 9
Arizona Colt Returns 8.5
Tequila Joe 4
Stranger Returns 9
Taste of Killing 7.5 Sartana in the Valley of Death 4 The Last Tomahawk 3.5
Just picked randomly, didn’t want all first time viewings so still have many to see
Nov 1: #30 - A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die (Giraldi, 1968)
Nov 2: #29 - The Price of Power (Valerii, 1969)
Nov 3: #28 - The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968)
Nov 4: #27 - Shoot the Living and Pray For the Dead (Vari, 1971)
Nov 5: #26 - California (Lupo, 1977)
Nov 6: #25 - Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
Nov 7: #24 - The Hellbenders (Corbucci, 1967)
Nov 8: #23 - A Bullet For the General (Damiani, 1966)
Nov 9: #22 - Today It’s Me… Tomorrow It’s You! (Cervi, 1968)
Nov 10: #21 - If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death (Parolini, 1968)
Nov 11: #20 - Companeros (Corbucci, 1970)
Nov 12: #19 - The Forgotten Pistolero (Baldi, 1969)
Nov 13: #18 - Django (Corbucci, 1966)
Nov 14: #17 - Face to Face (Sollima, 1967)
Nov 15: #16 - El Puro (Mulargia, 1969)
Nov 16: #15 - The Mercenary (Corbucci, 1968)
Nov 17: #14 - 10,000 Dollars For a Massacre (Guerrieri, 1967)
Nov 18: #13 - Cemetery Without Crosses (Hossein, 1969)
Nov 19: #12 - Mannaja (Martino, 1977)
Nov 20: #11 - Duel in the Eclipse (Merino, 1968)
Nov 21: #10 - A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964)
Nov 22: #9 - Keoma (Castellari, 1976)
Nov 23: #8 - Day of Anger (Valerii, 1967)
Nov 24: #7 - Death Rides a Horse (Petroni, 1967)
Nov 25: #6 - Requiescant (Lizzani, 1967) DIDN’T HAPPEN
Nov 26: #5 - Death Sentence (Lanfranchi, 1968)
Nov 27: #4 - Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (Questi, 1967)
Nov 28: #3 - The Big Gundown (Sollima, 1966)
Nov 29: #2 - For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)
Nov 30: #1 - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
29 out of 30. I’ll take that. Plus, I’ll be able to stick the whole family with my forthcoming Requiescant blu-ray on Christmas or Boxing Day. Hurrah!
Only 10 days or so until this all comes around again and my twisted deviant self is looking forward to the pleasure and pain of it all. Anyone else drafting a list of 30 for a November 1st kick off?
I’ve had my thirty sorted for some time now. They’re all movies I’ve seen but for the most part they’re movies I’ve only seen once or twice each. A couple of pictures have had more outings than that (Four of the Apocalypse, Django the Bastard, I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death) but they’re long overdue another look anyway. So I suppose, if my SpagvemberFest has a theme this year, it’s “SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016: A FISTFUL OF REAPPRAISALS”, or something.
Yes, exactly that. last year I tried to re-watch my top 30 (almost made it). This year I’m selecting another 30 from the “next best” level. Considering also doing a Sartana intensive along the way too but we’ll see.
I was going to start a dedicated thread on the 29th or 30th or so, but the subject has been raised here on the old thread and, tbh, I’ve no objection to SpagvemberFest 2016 staying in here, and this becoming a general “SpagvemberFest” thread which we can pull out of mothballs and visit once per year, like a Christmas jumper or a daytime prostitute. Saves making multiple threads on essentially the same subject.
So far I’ve picked around 10 films for spagvember. Some Carnimeo, Valerii and Bud will be included and some bluray upgrades I haven’t checked. Otherwise I don’t have any particular theme this year.