The Spaghetti West (2005)
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Director: David Gregory
Language: English with Italian Parts
Subtitles: English for Italian parts (Hardcoded)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 56mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 704×400 – 29.970fps – 895mb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0962781/
For about ten years, from 1964 to 1973, Italian production crews made hundreds of Westerns. This documentary looks chronologically at that enterprise, starting with the success of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci: their silent anti-heroes gave Clint Eastwood and Franco Nero stardom. The genre then shifted to political films of the collective downtrodden facing the state. The genre ended, spent, in comedy and farce. Along the way, argues this documentary, the spaghetti western established a language of filmmaking rooted in post-war cynicism and moral ambiguity, with cinematic tropes, including close-ups, violence, and soundtracks, that influenced filmmaking in Hong Kong and the U.S.
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