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Did Wittgenstein Like Spaghetti Westerns?

Wittgenstein

Did he? One of the readers of my Dutch Blog thought so. Wittgenstein came from a special family, so you never know. His father Karl, an industrial tycoon, was one of the richest people from the 19th Century, and the family led an intense artistic and cultural life. They were often visited by artists such

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Requiescant: Mögen die deutschen Zensoren in Frieden ruhen

Requiescant Koch Media

REQUIESCANT („Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen“) ist in gewisser Weise einzigartig. Denn es ist der einzige Italowestern, in dem Pier Paolo Pasolini mitspielt. Er soll auch am Drehbuch mitgearbeitet haben, und das ist zumindest in den Teilen des Films spürbar, in denen er in der Rolle des Priesters Don Juan auftaucht. In der neuen, endlich

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Happy Birthday, Mario Girotti (aka Terence Hill)

Terence Hill

Tanti Auguri, Mario! Here’s to an actor (still working today) that contributed a great deal to European cinema. He is the face of the Spaghetti Western, he made us laugh as kids (I am quite young, I watched his movies on television). and he changed the nature of the genre forever, building a legacy of

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