Rewatched The Grand Duel. Widescreen print this time, i’ve only seen the fullscreen one before.
I rewatched the grand due recently too but still didn’t like it. Too muc Leone imitation. Not the good kind either. Tries to be an epic or something bigand meaningful but fails IMO.
The Texas Rangers (1936) by King Vidor
Parts of this film are of course a bit simple in an old fashioned way, but there are also many greatly directed scenes.
Cemetery Without Crosses. Great film! Love the soundtracks narration and the almost mute “hero”. Also like the fact that he isn’t really a hero at all.
Hill: Lucky Luke[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Lucky_Luke[/url] (dvd-r)
-Terence Hill’s film version of the famous comic book. Better film than I expected, light hearted fun.
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:3845, topic:141”]Hill: Lucky Luke[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Lucky_Luke[/url] (dvd-r)
-Terence Hill’s film version of the famous comic book. Better film than I expected, light hearted fun.[/quote]
Really? Might give it a chance then this weekend, as I have the Dutch dvd.
Ihave watched only 45 minutes of Tepepa so far and consider it easy top 10 material. I have been pleasently surprised at the production values of the last several westerns. Face to Face, Cemetery Without Crosses and now Tepepa. All great.
The Silent Stranger A Great Flick which should be better known. I also like the Kurosawa Samurai Movies Yojimbo and Sanjuro and The Silent Stranger had some references to Kurosawa. I wished there would be something like a Director’s Cut of this movie (without the Blade Runner voiceover) and with optional Subtitles for the Japanese.
no spaghetti but it was the naked spur
That’s not too bad
Welcome to the forum, amigo
Enjoy yourself!
Just finished Tepepa all the way through and was very impressed. Probably the most well made spaghetti western. Very high production value. Great acting by all around except maybe Zombie Welles. What I found very interesting was the factit was set at the time of the mexican revolution but is not all action. Rather slow. Pretty much all the Zapata westerns are extremely fast paced. Not this one. Very ponderous and beautiful. Top 10 somewhere.
This film and a bullet for the general are the most serious films to deal with the mexican revolution. I liked this film better because I though it knew how to deal with the slow pace better. There are more action scenes in bullet but it really loses steam after a while. This film knows just where to put in an action scene. I like them both but Tepepa is miles ahead of bullet
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Watched Face to Face. ThoughT it was very interesting. Great dialogue and great charcter developement. I kinda felt sorry for the GMV chcracter. Sort of similar to George Hilton in Bullet for Sandoval in the later part of the movie. Siringo had killed hiswomen and made him into the monster he had become. Good action scenes too. I thought GMV’s charcter should have had some sort of reconciliation at the end. Made him into the good guy before he died. Interesting mix of locations. Find that a little variaty is good. The Linda Veras character confused me. She was sorta big in the spaghetti world but she just comesout of nowhere and has only one line of dialogue. Very well made film anyway. I’ll have to rewatch it soon.
Already rewatched Cemetery Without Crossesand liked it even better this time. Love the soundtrack. Especially the fast version of the main song. Love the flaminco guitar. Makes very simple scenes into very interesting scenes. I think that the flaminco guitar is what made this film not seem so slow. Also the intense communications without anywords. Expected Stranger in town lack of dialogue but this had a little bit more than that one. The hero reminds me of Silence. Top ten stuff.
Vera Cruz last night
-I think the most interesting thing in this film is it’s obvious influence to spaghetti westerns. There’s more backstabbing and betrayals than in usual spagh (which is a lot) and the nasty and sadistic bunch of bounty killers are just like out of sw. Also the way Mexican revolution is showed is just like 10 years later in Quien Sabe and other Zapata westerns: people are getting killed like flies, lot of action, machine gun killing etc.
Django Kill … If You Live, Shoot got a rewatching for the first time since the Argent Films release - so maybe 4 years since I last saw it. Marvellously deranged throughout. From a deformed hedgehog to the vampire bats … madness abounds in “The Unhappy Place”. Genius! 8) 
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:3853, topic:141”]Vera Cruz last night
-I think the most interesting thing in this film is it’s obvious influence to spaghetti westerns. There’s more backstabbing and betrayals than in usual spagh (which is a lot) and the nasty and sadistic bunch of bounty killers are just like out of sw. Also the way Mexican revolution is showed is just like 10 years later in Quien Sabe and other Zapata westerns: people are getting killed like flies, lot of action, machine gun killing etc.[/quote]I completely agree. Have you read the connections I made between it and the spaghetti westerns in the influences article?
[quote=“korano, post:3855, topic:141”]I completely agree. Have you read the connections I made between it and the spaghetti westerns in the influences article?[/quote]Yes, I noticed.
Bergonzelli: El Cisco[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/El_Cisco[/url] (dvd-r)
-quite good, entertaining film. William Berger is excellent in the main role as El Cisco who uses a special weapon: exploding cigars! George Wang plays a bandit leader very similar as in Bergonzelli’s Devil was an Angel. I think Wang’s hiding place is same in both films too.
Just finished GBU tonight…no one around so I cranked the sound up during The Ecstasy of Gold !!!
Thas exactly what I do when watching that film. ;D
Cetin Inanc: Dag Kurdu[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Dag_kurdu[/url] (avi/tv-rip)
-My first Turkish western but it won’t be the last. What a great fun! And what a rip-off! I didn’t understand a word of dialogue but it’s obviously a remake of Run man Run. Turkish version of Cuchillo is running around the mountains of Turkey looking for gold and fighting against bandits and the army. There’s also his wife(?) and another girlfriend.
Lots of hilarious action, duels, gunfights and there’s a lot of recycled music from sw’s, mainly Morricone but some others too. And it’s quite fun to spot and recognise the themes while watching. Great entertainment if you love bad movies!
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:3859, topic:141”]Cetin Inanc: Dag Kurdu[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Dag_kurdu[/url] (avi/tv-rip)
-My first Turkish western but it won’t be the last. What a great fun! And what a rip-off! I didn’t understand a word of dialogue but it’s obviously a remake of Run man Run. Turkish version of Cuchillo is running around the mountains of Turkey looking for gold and fighting against bandits and the army. There’s also his wife(?) and another girlfriend.
Lots of hilarious action, duels, gunfights and there’s a lot of recycled music from sw’s, mainly Morricone but some others too. And it’s quite fun to spot and recognise the themes while watching. Great entertainment if you love bad movies![/quote]
Çetin Inanç’s Çeko is fun too.