Corbucci’s NAVAJO JOE out soon on R1 DVD by MGM!

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1. Rhythm-X 03/03/2008 @ 12:03pm

   Don’t forget DEATH RIDES A HORSE. MGM has all-but-relinquished the US market for this United Artists title to bootleggers when they should have been cashing in on its multiple KILL BILL connections.

   They’re fools for not whipping up a big-ass Spaghetti Western box set, considering they’ve got the DOLLARS films and DUCK YOU SUCKER, a good amount of Corbucci, A MINUTE TO PRAY, A SECOND TO DIE, DEATH RIDES A HORSE, and who knows what else.

2. Simon Abrams 03/03/2008 @ 3:55pm

   Am I the only one that was left a little cold by Corbucci’s “Django?”

3. Timo 03/04/2008 @ 1:20pm

   Django is certainly a tad overrated as a film, in my opinion, but you can’t fault it for its establishment of a character that was kinda different and unique in comparison to Leone’s Man With No Name. Also, the setting.

   Corbucci’s best film is THE GREAT SILENCE, if you ask me. Which is also among the top three of the genre. And perhaps my top ten films ever.

4. Simon Abrams 03/04/2008 @ 1:27pm

   I didn’t see “Django” as being that different from “The Man with No Name” though. Corbucci’s “Django” sees Django doing everything he did except for the crucial difference where he runs away with the money while “The Man” only tries to. I will queue up “The Great Silence” though.

5. ChevalierAguila 03/04/2008 @ 3:30pm

   Django was one of those movies that certainly needed a good re-interpretation, it has some good ideas, but maybe not the best execution. Miike’s take is quite good and adds a lot more story than the original did.

   And yes, watch The Great Silence, that one do lives to it’s reputation of being a great overlooked film. You can’t say no to Klaus Kinski playing a villian named “loco”.

6. jasonpauljohnston 03/05/2008 @ 7:53am

   I actually just purchased Navajo Joe in a pack with three other westerns at the Great Canadian Superstore (kind of a Canadian Wal-mart) for $5!  It also included Pancho Villa (Telly Savalas, Chuck Conners!), A Town Called Hell (not to be confused with High Plains Drifter) and Eagles’s Wing (1979 Martin Sheen).  I was pretty excited as I have not seen any of these films available previously.  They are distributed by Direct Source Special Products Inc.

7. Rhythm-X 03/05/2008 @ 12:59pm

   I think DJANGO’s bloody brilliant.  Lean, grimy, low-rent, yet jammed full of utterly iconic imagery that’s been appropriated by other filmmakers ever since, too many times to count.  Such a shame that the English dub is so wretched - watching a Western in Italian is somewhat distracting; that that is the best way to experience DJANGO is quite unfortunate.  Repeat viewings of DJANGO have worked in its favor for me.  My first time watching it back in the VHS days, I was rather underwhelmed - that’s no longer the case.

8. Simon Abrams 03/05/2008 @ 1:34pm

   But Django is on R1 with the Italian language track. That’s the one I watched. And grew bored with.

   And no offense, but most of what Django has to offer has been done by Kurosawa and Leone. Everything else it added was gristle. I thought it was overlong, formulaic and flat-out uninteresting. What aside from the gatling gun does it offer up in terms of originality?

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