The Great Silence
(Il grande silenzio)
Italy/France 1968. Dir: Sergio Corbucci. 105 min. DCP
NEW RESTORATION! Widely considered to be a masterwork of
its genre and the magnum opus of its maker, this subversive, hard-R cult curio
from Django director Sergio Corbucci may be the most influential Spaghetti
Western you’ve never seen! Shelved in North America for its radical politics
and wallop of a downer ending — the deaths of Che Guevara and Malcolm X were
cited inspirations — Corbucci’s bleak, wintry shoot-’em-up, set during Utah’s
Great Blizzard of 1899, has grown legendary in reputation, with renegades Alex
Cox and Quentin Tarantino at the top of its list of admirers. (The latter
borrows liberally from it in his own “snow Western,” The Hateful Eight.) Herzog
madman Klaus Kinski plays a bloodthirsty bounty hunter who locks horns with a
mute gunslinger (Jean-Louis Trintignant, of recent Haneke). Spaghetti maestro
Ennio Morricone scores. “Corbucci’s best and his bleakest ... A classic of
transgressive cinema” (Alex Cox).
Film Forum
209 W. Houston St.
(W. of 6th Ave.)
New York City, NY
This new restored version will show for one week only
March 30 – April 5, 2018
Daily except Saturday/Sunday/Monday: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00,
9:15
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40
Monday: 2:00, 4:30, 9:30
Contact The Film Forum for further information and tickets
www.filmforum.org
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