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In the age of social distancing, drive-in ticket sales in Germany and South Korea are booming.
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RIP Mr. Brian Manion Dennehy...you will be remembered.🙏
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Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television roles including R…
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A global fast on Good Friday, a traditional day of fasting for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics...however this year it has added significance as collectively we are ALL challenged with this insidious virus, Covid-19 that has killed far too many loved ones and has caused much chaos and uncertainty. Prayers for the safety and wellness of our doctors, nurses, first responders and all essential workers who are fighting for us in this pandemic.MuchLuv.
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Segment filming for new travel/food series with celebrity chef, Sara La Fountain @ Harlem’s Settepani Ristorante.
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What Is a Spaghetti Western?
By Christopher McKittrick
Italian-made Western films from the 1960s and 1970s are called "Spaghetti Westerns." Their stark depictions of the Old West have made them some of the most popular Westerns ever created.
As a genre, Westerns were incredibly popular with movie audiences from the earliest days of cinema—one of the first big movie milestones was 1903’s The Great Train Robbery—through the end of the 1960s. Westerns were also very popular on television in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the box office popularity of the genre, the relatively cheap production values of Westerns in which props and sets could be reused made Hollywood studios of all sizes embrace the genre.
international filmmakers who lacked Hollywood’s big budgets embraced the Western as a genre that could allow them to produce high-quality movies on limited budgets. The country outside of America that truly made the Western its own was Italy, whose Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s have been dubbed "Spaghetti Westerns."
The Origins of the Spaghetti Western
Prior to the popularity of Westerns, the most popular film genre in Italy in the late 1950s and early 1960s were "sword-and-sandal" films: biblical, mythological, and historical epics. In order to increase the international appeal of these epics, Italian filmmakers would hire American actors to star in the films, such as bodybuilder/actor Steve Reeves, who played Hercules in two Italian movies.
Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone directed Reeves in the sword-and-sandal epic The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and followed it up with a similar film, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961). Next, Leone turned his attention to a different genre: the Western.
The success of Leone’s 1964 Western A Fistful of Dollars led to an explosion of popularity in Italian-made Westerns. Though it was not the first Italian Western, A Fistful of Dollars was the first to become a huge financial success around the world. Several factors contributed to its success: it featured stunning direction by Leone, memorable cinematography by Massimo Dallamano, a classic minimalist score by Ennio Morricone, and, perhaps most notably, a story ripped off from Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai film Yojimbo. (The production company behind Yojimbo, Toho, received an out of court settlement after suing Leone for the unauthorized remake.)
However, perhaps the biggest reason for the film's popularity was the fact that it starred American actor Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood and Spaghetti Westerns
At the time of his casting in A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood was already known as a Western star thanks to his role in the U.S. series Rawhide. In A Fistful of Dollars, Eastwood plays an unnamed character (popularly known to cinema fans as "The Man with No Name") who rides into a town controlled by two warring factions. The Man with No Name takes advantage of the greed of the factions by playing against both sides in a clever (and bloody) scheme.
A Fistful of Dollars quickly became the highest-grossing Italian film of all time, and Italian filmmakers now had a winning cinematic formula to follow.
After A Fistful of Dollars, Leone created two more Westerns with Eastwood’s unnamed character — For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) — as well as 1968’s Once Upon a Time in the West, which starred Charles Bronson. These four Leone Spaghetti Westerns are considered by critics to be among the greatest Westerns ever made, with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ranked as one of the Top 10 films of all time by IMDb users.
Characteristics of Spaghetti Westerns
One aspect that set Italian Westerns apart was their stark depiction of the Old West. Unlike the American westerns of this era, which were generally family-friendly entertainment starring “white hat” hero cowboys, the Italian Westerns embraced the harshness of the Old West. They also pushed beyond American standards of violence, featuring characters who possessed both heroic and villainous traits.
As with the earlier sword-and-sandal epics, Italian directors often hired one or two familiar American actors to boost the film’s international appeal. In addition to Eastwood, American actors who starred in Spaghetti Westerns include Richard Harrison (Gunfight at Red Sands), Gordon Scott (The Tramplers), Cameron Mitchell (Minnesota Clay), Mark Damon (Johnny Yuma), Burt Reynolds (Navajo Joe), and Henry Fonda (Once Upon a Time in the West).
Unlike American Westerns where Native Americans were frequent antagonists, Native Americans were rarely depicted at all in Spaghetti Westerns. In a few in which Native Americans do appear (such as Navajo Joe), they are usually not the film's antagonists.
Many Italian Westerns were actually shot in Spain (though some were also shot in Southern Italy) to depict the dry climate of the American Southwest. Old West sets from several Spaghetti Westerns later became tourist attractions in Spain.
The growing popularity of Italian-made Westerns led to the creation of the term “Spaghetti Western" (journalist Alfonso Sancha is credited with inventing the phrase). Many contemporary American critics used the Spaghetti Western label to deride the quality of Italian Westerns, as they had done before with Italian sword-and-sandal movies.
Most Spaghetti Westerns did not receive critical acclaim in their time because of repetitive plots, relatively low production values, and poorly dubbed dialogue. But in the decades since, many critics have come to appreciate the raw, stylistic filmmaking that produced Spaghetti Westerns.
Top Spaghetti Western Movies
A similarly influential Spaghetti Western was 1966’s Django, which starred Franco Nero in another film that heavily borrows from the plot of Yojimbo. The film was the second Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci, who became recognized for his stark depiction of violence. The popularity of Django led to over two dozen unofficial "sequels" produced by various Italian filmmakers through the early 1970s and Quentin Tarantino titled his 2012 Western Django Unchained in tribute to the Django character (Nero also appears in the film in a cameo). Corbucci also directed the classics Navajo Joe (1966), about a revenge-seeking Native American, and The Great Silence (1968), about a mute gunfighter.
Similarly, Italian actor Gianni Garko starred as the mysterious gunslinger Sartana in four films starting with 1968’s If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, though a dozen unofficial Sartana films were produced from just 1969-1972. Even a movie teaming “Django” and “Sartana” was released in 1970, One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana!
Italian actor Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti) also starred in a number of well-regarded Spaghetti Westerns including 1968's Django, Prepare a Coffin; 1970's They Call Me Trinity; and 1971's Trinity is STILL My Name! Hill also starred in the Spaghetti Western parody that featured some direction by Leone, 1973's My Name is Nobody, though unlike most Spaghetti Westerns it was mostly shot in the United States.
Decline and Legacy of Spaghetti Westerns
Much like the sword-and-sandal genre before it, the Spaghetti Western gradually fell out of favor with audiences in Italy and abroad. In the U.S., the Western genre overall declined in popularity in both film and television by the mid 1970s. Because of this decline, European filmmakers decided not to continue making the films.
Though no single genre took over following the decline of Spaghetti Westerns, there was a significant rise in the number of low-budget Italian horror films in the mid-1970s.
The genre undoubtedly influenced later Westerns like Eastwood's own directorial efforts High Plains Drifter (1973), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Pale Rider (1985), and Unforgiven (1992), Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015), and non-Western cult favorites like Alex Cox's Straight to Hell (1987) and Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003).
Spaghetti Western Key Takeaways
Spaghetti Westerns are Western movies made in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.
The genre featured lower production values than Hollywood Westerns, but today many of the films are well-regarded for their depictions of violence and complex characters.
The most famous and critically acclaimed Spaghetti Westerns were directed by Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood starred in three of Leone's Westerns including The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have cited Spaghetti Westerns as important influences on their work.
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL CANCELED
Robert De Niro at the screening for “The Apollo” during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
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The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City — which was scheduled for April 15 to 26 — is canceled.
Co-founder and chief executive officer of Tribeca Enterprises, Jane Rosenthal, released a statement on the cancellation on Twitter, stating: “We founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to heal our community after the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. We were determined to overcome our fear and anxiety by joining together. It is our DNA to march forward while caring about our community. We made the difficult decision to postpone the 19th Tribeca Film Festival based on the announcement by Governor Andrew Cuomo that events of 500 people or more are banned due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.”
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Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum talks about rebooting The Invisible Man, mastering new genres, and why the current TV model encourages bloat.
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The South Korean film made history at the Academy Awards. Are we finally ready to embrace subtitles?
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Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" has become the second most-watched film in the Warner Bros. catalogue in 2020.
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The festival says "it is still premature" to make any assumptions on whether or not the outbreak will cancel the 2020 edition.
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Silent film of black couple’s kiss added to National Film Registry
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@ Sundance 2020!!
Sundance: Garrett Bradley's 'Time' Acquired By Amazon
Even though Sundance wrapped a few weeks ago, some big deals are still going down. Amazon is in talks to acquire Garrett Bradley's documentary, Time. The deal is reportedly worth $5 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter, who first reported the news.
The documentary chronicles Fox Rich, the "indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist" who "strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband." The intimate project was filmed over two decades.
Bradley won the festival's Directing Award: U.S. Documentary and was one of three Black women who won the festival's top prizes.
Sundance review of the film reads, "Time is about moments, lives lived, faith, pain, tenacity and sheer love. This isn't a film about policies and legal jargon. It is a story about human beings, and an entire family hanging in the balance, held captive by a system that refuses to see them."
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The murder of Reverend George Lee, an early civil rights activist, in Belzoni, Mississippi, remains an FBI cold case some forty years later. In this four-part documentary series, we follow the trail of the FBI’s initial investigation and meet with relatives of the victims, civil rights activists and elected officials in an attempt to uncover the facts behind unsolved Civil Rights murders from the late 1950’s & early 1960’s. A horrific chapter in our country’s troubled history of racial conflict. Director/Series Producer: Barnard Jaffier. * 2009 Emmy consideration * 2009 Silver Telly Award Winner * 2009 National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award Nominee Watch full episodes of the acclaimed original documentary series, Murder in Black and White, here: http://www.jaffafilm.com/murder-in-black-and-white/ #murderinblackandwhite #tvone #blackhistory #civilrights #unsolved #civilrightsmovement #awardwinning #docuseries
IN PRODUCTION- REDISCOVERING KATE CAREW Rediscovering Kate Carew is a classically American tale of an individual’s rise to fame out of humble beginnings, this time by a woman. America’s first prominent female journalist and caricaturist (1897-1920) who drew and interviewed the famous, the notorious, and the pioneering celebrities from the turn of the last century. A body of work that was lost for almost a century, until now. www.katecarew.com A Jaffa Films Production Producer/Director: Barnard Jaffier
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Murder in Black & White: Full Episode MURDER IN BLACK & WHITE: In this four part cable documentary series, we follow the trail of the FBI’s initial investigation and meet with relatives of the victims, civil rights activists and elected officials in an attempt to uncover the facts behind unsolved civil rights murders from the late 1950's & early 1960's. A horrific chapter in our country’s troubled history of racial conflict. Director/Series Producer: Barnard Jaffier.. Associate Producer: Cindy Birch Executive Producer: Keith Beauchamp Supervising Producer: Robyn Greene Arrington (TV One) Date(s) 2009/2010 RT: 44:10 Mins Won a Silver Telly award on the network's four-part series, "Murder in Black and White." The series was also nominated for a National Association of Black Journalists Excellence Award and hailed as an Emmy contender in the LA Times.
Unsolved Civil Rights cold cases from the late 1950s & early 1960s.
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Posting this documentary we did for BET/News-Viacom some years back. A cable documentary, Heart of the City- Katrina. Winner of the NYNABJ (New York Association of Black Journalists) award in Public Affairs Category.
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