The Los Angeles, Italian Film, Fashion and Art Fest
Chinese 6 Theatre (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre)
6801 Hollywood, Blvd.
Hollywood, CA
Corbucci films to be screened.
Sunday February 19, 2012
12:30 p.m. “The Mercenary” 110 minute version
10:15 p.m. “Django” 91 minute version Franco Nero will be attending
Wednesday February 22, 2012
11:00 p.m. “Companeros” 118 minute version
8 pm - "Jonathan of the Bears" (Q&A with Nero)
8 pm - "Jonathan of the Bears" (Q&A with Nero)
I think it's great that they're showing these films! The "other Sergio" made some tremendous Spaghetti Westerns. Django, Great Silence, Campaneros are as good as genre gets. Hellbenders, Navajo Joe, Minnesota Clay are good, highly watchable, fun movies. Particulary fascinated by how god awful bad his 1975 Spaghetti Western with many titles (Samurai, Red, Yellow & Black, etc) Starring Giuliano Gemma, Eli Wallach and Tomas Millian is. Millian as a japanese "geisha boy" is so weird and film is like an LSD trip. The theme song sung in broken English by the DeAngelis Brothers aka Oliver Onions is surrealistically crazy. Bravo Sergio Corbucci!
ReplyDeleteDitto everything you said. Unfortunately unlike Leone, who tried to better himself with each successive film Corbucci had some classics and some real duds.
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