Pah, I’ve got 20 SWs on my list!
My top 7 are pretty strong as well
My personal top 10
- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- My Name Is Nobody
- Adiós Sabata
- The Great Silence
- For A Few Dollars More
- Death Rides A Horse
- A Bullet For Sandoval
- Ace High
- Django
- The Taste of Killing
Will there be a new official list this fall or next year to replace the current one?
A top 30 or top 40?
Or maybe the top 20 and alternative top 20 we have now is enough?
I think it depends on how much new data has arrived. If only two or three new member lists appeared a new counting is too much work I guess.
No you misunderstand, we should make and publish new lists and vote for more movies than we’ve done previously
Not just use the current data and our individual top 20’s
There is of course some work then in putting it all together that Stanton has to to
I got it now.
I think a combined SW/ Eurowestern top 40 would be fun
Maybe launch a new thread for this soon, but then it’ll probably take some time before there is a lot of new lists from people to make it worthwhile counting them
The other older lists could co-exist with the new one once it’s officially published, no need to scrap them
I had asked Unforgettable Nobody (see above post 1023) via PM for a list with 20 films, and he had prepared one and sent it to me. Here it is (for the voting and your pleasure):
He has not only added 10 more films to his above list, but also changed the order a bit.
Thats actually a very cool list. Probably the first I’ver seen with Stranger i Japan. Come to think of it, Ilove that movie. I gotta see it soon!
A note from the office:
It’s actually the 4th list with The Silent Stranger in it.
More than just a bit. Poor old Django starts off as number 9 in the first list and disappears without trace in the second. ???
hmm, yes, I haven’t noticed. Maybe a mistake.
And Taste of Killing is also on his way down into the voting nirvana.
My actual “Wild Bunch”:
- Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Leone
- For a Few Dollars More - Leone
- A Fistful of Dollars - Leone
- A Bullet for the General - Damiani
- Tepepa - Petroni
- Django - Corbucci
- Face to Face - Sollima
- The Great Silence - Corbucci
- The Big Gundown - Sollima
- My Name is Nobody - Leone/Valerii
- A Fistful of Dynamite - Leone
- The Mercenary - Corbucci
- Kill and Pray - Lizzani
- Django, Kill… - Questi
- Run, man, run - Sollima
- Sabata - Parolini
- If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Your Death - Parolini
- Blindman - Baldi
- The Specialists - Corbucci
I’m a new member and have seen ~55 Spaghettis. There are a few “big-name” ones I have yet to see, such as Face to Face, Day of Anger, Cemetery without Crosses, Bandidos, The Mercenary, Tepepa, and California. But if Frayling can view the same number and write a book, I can give a “preliminary” top 11 (now all 20). Not necessarily the “best,” but my favorites:
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Return of Ringo
- The Big Gundown
- Johnny Hamlet
- A Pistol for Ringo
- Arizona Colt
- Django
- Yankee
- Death Sentence
- Price of Power
- Death Rides a Horse
- Seven Dollars on the Red
- Long Live Your Death
- A Hole in the Forehead
- Fury of Johnny Kidd
- Django Kill
- Days of Violence
- Duck, You Sucker
20 would be great for the voting. Even if you “only” have seen 55 …
Done (but with less confidence, or permanence)
I changed number 20.
Thanks …
Some “honorable mentions” and comments.
I am a big Eli Wallach (Tuco) fan, so Ace High would be #21 on my list.
Only one Corbucci-- I’m just not a fan. Milian as Che Guevara (Companeros) leaves me cold.
Run, Man, Run has that great beginning scene where Milian makes a burrito and walks out unknowingly into a firing squad, but later… :-[
No Room to Die; Today It’s Me, Tomorrow You!; Dead Men Ride; Adios, Sabata; Fistful of Dollars (but not an Eastwood fan); For $100,000 per Killing; $10,000 Blood Money; and Kill the Living, Pray for the Dead; Massacre Time; I Want Him Dead; and And God Said to Cain all get honorable mentions.
And a big thank you to Koch Media for their great DVDs (even if I have to watch them on my iMac)!
Interesting list Major.
Yup, that’s my favorite of the Colizzi trilogy too.
Not even “The Great Silence”?
As for “Companeros”, I like it but agree that it is certainly inferior to “Il Mercenario” which is one of my all time favorites. Did you not like the beginning to Companeros which then connects up with the end?
Awesome beginning and actually I really like the rest of the movie too. It’s my favorite of the Sollima trilogy, although my favorite sequence is the cane fields in “The Big Gundown”.