Thursday, 26 July 2007

Spaghetti westerns

I envy anyone attending the Venice film festival this year, with its retrospective of 32 spaghetti westerns, curated by Quentin Tarantino. The article on the BBC is unfortunately light on details, however; I'd be curious to know how obscure it gets.
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8 comments:

  1. Stephen Grimes26 July 2007 at 19:45:00 BST

    http://www.gentedirispetto.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9761

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  2. K H Brown26 July 2007 at 22:54:00 BST

    Thanks for this.

    There are a fair number there I'd love to see - here's hoping they'll get releases on Raro / Nocturno, as with the Di Leo stuff a few years back.

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  3. Joe D26 July 2007 at 23:25:00 BST

    I have been invited to attend the Venice Film Festival, in particular the spaghetti western side bar. I will be blogging all about it from Venice at www.filmforno.com . By coincidence I was at a party up the coast 200 miles from L.A. and I met Leonard Mann, star of La Vendetta รจ un piatto che si serve freddo, which I believe is screening there.

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  4. Anonymous27 July 2007 at 09:43:00 BST

    A little more detail on the official site - http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/program/en/14364.html

    Looks very interesting...

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  5. Stephen Grimes27 July 2007 at 10:31:00 BST

    Apparently Leonard Mann is now a teacher/lecturer out in California.
    Did he discuss his Italian film career with you Joe?
    Thanks.

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  6. Joe D27 July 2007 at 16:10:00 BST

    Stephen
    Yes, we talked until his wife dragged him away, he agreed to be interviewed and I plan on doing it once I'm back from Venice, I will post it as a podcast. If you check my blog I wrote about meeting him. He's a very nice guy and the few stories he told me about his acting career are amazing. By the way I used a copy of the Napoli Spara lobby card from your site but I did credit you. I hope you don't mind.

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  7. Stephen Grimes28 July 2007 at 13:22:00 BST

    Thanks Joe,can you post the address of your blog as i'd love to read about your meeting him.

    No problem about the fotobusta,feel free to use what you want :-)

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  8. Joe D28 July 2007 at 21:46:00 BST

    Stephen
    My blog is www.filmforno.com
    Thanks for the use of the Napoli Spara fotobusta!

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