Man of the East Blu-Ray (E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico (1972)) from Soul Media

Enzo Barboni’s comedy spaghetti Man of the East was released in Sweden (and Denmark?) in October 19th as a Blu-Ray & DVD combo pack. Disc has English audio with optional Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish subtitles. I haven’t checked the DVD yet but I would think it is the same disc that has already been released in Scandinavia some years …
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Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (1971 / Realizador: Enzo Barboni)

Qual é a primeira coisa que nos vem à memória quando falamos de Mario Girotti / Terence Hill e Carlo Pedersoli / Bud Spencer? Cadáveres e muito sangue? Não! Violência extrema, sadismo e umas pitadas de sexo? Nem pensar! A especialidade destes dois atores italianos é a comédia, recheada de pancadaria, acrobacias, humor simples e algumas patetices.
Os westerns de


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Posters | Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (1971)


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Hunt for the Trinity Is Still My Name Blu-Ray

As I have nothing better to do I took a few screenshots from Trinity Is Still My Name discs (DVDs & Blu-Ray). Well, I actually took them some months ago but been lazy as usual, and it turns out I only took one screenshot per disc. Which wasn’t a very smart thing to do. Anyways, this particular scene happens to …
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New Spaghetti Scholarship: Directory of World Cinema

Intellect Books’ Directory of World Cinema: Italy, edited by Louis Bayman, is now available for pre-order. This exciting new volume is a scholarly yet accessible collection of writing from some of the world’s leading experts in Italian cinema. I was honoured to be asked to compile the book’s Spaghetti Westerns chapter, and humbled by the quality of contributions I …
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Duccio Tessari on the end of the Italian Western

[In 1986, Lorenzo De Luca conducted an interview with director Duccio Tessari which was published in both Lorenzo's fanzine FAR HORIZONS and his book C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL WESTERN ITALIANO.]

LDL: A typical element of American Westerns were Indians. Why was this element missing from Italian Westerns?

Duccio Tessari: Because we don’t look like Indians! A tall blond stuntman can


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Enzo Barboni on why no more Westerns.

Enzo Barboni: It has always seemed to me that there’s no need to keep going for the gold. It’s also risky. So I only did the first two comic Westerns, and then I did something different. I believe in moving on from a genre at the proper moment, even it other then follow and do excellent business. But when Zingarelli …
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Enzo Barboni on E.B. Clucher and Hill & Spencer.

Enzo Barboni: Having been a director of photography for so many years, I thought producers might be a bit resistant to seeing me as a director and I changed my name to E.B. Clucher. Clucher was my mother’s maiden name, a “lanzquenet” name originally, I believe. I decided this at the very last moment – only Zingarelli and I knew …
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Enzo Barboni on Italo Zingarelli

Enzo Barboni: I have various producers read the script of TRINITY… and many of them, leafing through their copy, noted that the right half – with the dialogue – was unusually full, to which they’d respond: “He talks too much and shoots too little.”

Until one day I spoke about the project with Zingarelli. He’d already done some producing, and


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Enzo Barboni’s thinking before THEY CALL ME TRINITY.

Enzo Barboni: As a Director of Photography, I’d done many Westerns, and one thing about them that made me laugh was their use of violence as an end in itself, which really irked me as a viewer. I believed that Westerns ought to be amusing, there’s something inherently comic about the fact in part because they started off from the …
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About Ciakmull (Unholy 4) and other new Seven7 releases from France

There have been some discussion (in French which I don’t understand so I might be wrong… ) about the quality of the latest Seven7 releases from France being not what they were advertised as (remastered, with French and Italian audio) even perhaps being copies of the Evidis/Fravidis(?) discs of the same movies that have been around for a couple of …
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Lo chiamavano Trinità… (1970 / Realizador: Enzo Barboni)

Sabata, o famoso circus-western de Gianfranco Parolini safou-se bem nas bilheteiras, La collina degli stivali idem e a coisa começou a tomar outras proporções. Enzo Barboni, o talentoso homem responsável pela direcção fotográfica de alguns dos filmes de Sergio Corbucci (Django, I crudeli, etc.), que até já tinha alcançado a realização de um filme (interessante mas não propriamente rentável), conseguia …
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Preparati la bara! (1967 / Realizador: Ferdinando Baldi)

Tal o sucesso de Django (1966), surgiram quase imediatamente dezenas de filmes que se apoiaram no seu nome como chamariz para um público mais alargado. Alguns desses filmes seguiram de uma forma mais ou menos coerente as características da personagem mostrada ao mundo por Sergio Corbucci, outros (maioria) limitaram-se a adicionar o nome Django ao seu título, mas todos eles …
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Django (1966 / Realizador: Sergio Corbucci)

Quando se aborda o tema westerns-spaghetti, o primeiro nome que vem à memória da esmagadora maioria é “Sergio Leone”. É com inteira justiça que isso acontece, já que foi o grande mestre do género e realizou obras marcantes. Contudo, Sergio Corbucci segue de muito perto o seu compatriota, se tivermos em conta as suas duas obras-primas: “O grande silêncio” e …
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