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The Original DJANGO and TEXAS ADIOS Available on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray May 25th From Arrow Video

The Original DJANGO (1966) will be available on 4K Ultra HD with TEXAS ADIOS included on Blu-ray May 25th From Arrow Video

In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero (Keoma, The Fifth Cord) gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries

With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels.

The film is presented here in its 4K UHD Blu-ray debut, with a wealth of extras. Also included is the bonus feature Texas, Adios on Blu-ray, which also stars Franco Nero, and was released as a sequel to Django in some countries.

2-DISC 4K UHD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

  • 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation of Django, in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of Texas, Adios
  • Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio
  • Original English and Italians soundtracks
  • English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
  • Six double-sided collector s postcards
  • Double-sided fold-out poster
  • 60-page perfect-bound book featuring writing by Howard Hughes and Roberto Curti, and original reviews
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

DISC 1 DJANGO [4K UHD BLU-RAY]

  • Audio commentary by film critic, historian and theorist Stephen Prince
  • Django Never Dies, an interview with star Franco Nero
  • Cannibal of the Wild West, an interview with assistant director Ruggero Deodato
  • Sergio, My Husband, an interview with Sergio Corbucci s wife Nori Corbucci
  • That s My Life: Part 1, an archival interview with co-writer Franco Rossetti
  • A Rock n Roll Scriptwriter, an archival interview with co-writer Piero Vivarelli
  • A Punch in the Face, an archival interview with stuntman and actor Gilberto Galimberti
  • Discovering Django, an appreciation by spaghetti westerns scholar Austin Fisher
  • An Introduction to Django by Alex Cox, an archival featurette with the acclaimed director
  • Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel archive
  • Original trailers

DISC 2 TEXAS ADIOS [BLU-RAY]

  • Audio commentary by spaghetti western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry C. Parke
  • The Sheriff is in Town, an interview with star Franco Nero
  • Jump into the West, an interview with co-star Alberto Dell Acqua
  • That s My Life: Part 2, an archival interview with co-writer Franco Rossetti
  • Hello Texas!, an appreciation by spaghetti western scholar Austin Fisher
  • Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel archive
  • Original trailers

Classic Spaghetti Western THE GREAT SILENCE Screens at Webster University This Weekend


“They call him “Silence.” Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows.”


THE GREAT SILENCE (1968) directed by Sergio Corbucci, screens Friday June 29th through Sunday July 1st at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The film starts at 7:30pm all three nights.


Sergio Corbucci’s masterpiece THE GREAT SILENCE (1968) is more than just one of the greatest Westerns of all-time. Unlike Corbucci’s earlier classic DJANGO (which recenetly played as part of Webster U’s ‘Strange Brew’ series), a violent Spaghetti Western filled with dark humor, THE GREAT SILENCE is a downbeat and completely serious movie from beginning to end, a brutal tale about misery, greed and selfishness, about injustice and the desire for revenge.


THE GREAT SILENCE is set in the winter of 1898, in the mountain town of Snow Hill, Utah. People who were forced to steal in order to survive an ice cold winter, are mercilessly chased and murdered by unscrupulous bounty hunters, who don’t care who they kill as long as there is a reward on their victim’s head. The most atrocious of these bounty hunters is vicious Loco, outstandingly played by Klaus Kinski. In their calamity, desperate relatives of the head hunters’ victims hire a mute gunman called Silence ( Jean-Louis Trintignant), in order to avenge their loved ones and end the killings.

The Music in THE GREAT SILENCE by Ennio Morricone is, once again, excellent (how couldn’t it), the main theme is one of his greatest compositions. The locations are very well-chosen, impressive images of a snowy mountain wasteland make you almost feel the cold. THE GREAT SILENCE is a must-see, not only for fans of Spaghetti Westerns, but for every lover of film. Don’t miss your chance to catch this rare screening this weekend at Webster University

Admission is:

$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

 

Don’t Touch His Coffin ! DJANGO Screens May 2nd at Schlafly Bottleworks – ‘Strange Brew’


“If you’re a coffin maker… you sure did pick a good town to settle.”


The “D” is silent; the movie is not! DJANGO (1966) screens Wednesday, May 2nd at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange BrewFilm Series. 


You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143).


DJANGO (1966), Sergio Corbucci’s answer to Sergio Leone’s  Dollars trilogy, helped entwine the spaghetti Western further into the DNA of world cinema. Starring as the title traveler is Franco Nero, the scruffy Civil War vet who pulls a coffin behind him as he drifts from town to town. As the film opens, he saves a perfectly lovely woman strung up for a good whippin’ from bandits.

She’s Maria (Loredana Nusciak), a prostitute fleeing from Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo) and his band of red-hooded executioners who collect “protection money” from uncommonly muddy ghost towns that don’t need protecting from anything but more rain. Jackson follows her and Django to one of the saloons on his racketeering list.

Jackson finds out the hard way what’s in Django’s coffin: a Gatling gun, with which our protagonist easily kills all the baddies but Jackson himself, and that’s only because he has designs on Jackson’s bonanza of bullion. Only through joining forces with Mexican Gen. Rodriguez (José Bódalo) can Django hope to snag it.


With more trigger pulls and resulting bullet wounds than the era was used to, Django shoots its way into your good graces. Corbucci  keeps the story going without losing steam, proving that an epic feel can be attained minus an epic length. Naturally, Nero is the big (and quick) draw as Django, a Western antihero who could use a good antidepressant. Often imitated, never duplicated, DJANGO is one quicksand-sinkin’, cork-spittin’, mud-wrasslin’, ear-shavin’, bottle-shootin’, hand-breaking good time!

Don’t miss DJANGO when it screens Wednesday night May 2nd at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143). The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.


The Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/2015388572057879/

Review: ‘Django’ The Movie Melting Pot … (Italy, 1966)


If Sergio Leone is considered the Godfather of Spaghetti Westerns, than Sergio Corbucci has to be the Tattaglia.   The man is a pimp.   Leone is head and shoulders above other filmmakers when it comes to the Spaghetti Western.   Other directors like Corbucci, Enzo Castellari, and Lucio Fulci made lesser known examples of the genre.   Many consider Leone’s ‘Man With No Name’ films to be the best of the genre.   However, others consider Corbucci’s ‘Django’, one of the earliest films to spin out of the Leone successes, to be the best. Continue reading Review: ‘Django’ The Movie Melting Pot … (Italy, 1966)