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Tarantino brings spaghetti westerns to Venice Film Fest

by mardoux | July 26, 2007 at 12:21 pm

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It looks like a really good year for the VFF overall, but definitely the coolest part is this:

The line-up for this year's Venice Film Festival has been announced, with 32 spaghetti westerns on the bill.

The retrospective will be curated by film-maker Quentin Tarantino, who promised the genre's little-known directors "will now get their due".

Tarantino + spaghetti westerns + Italy? I wish I could hop a plane and join the party. It's so cool that there are now retrospectives of films previously considered lesser art forms, and that they are elevated to a level of notoriety that allows for them to be "curated" by folks like good ol' Quentin.

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blakeinterpol

at 14:33 on July 26th, 2007

Tarantino has screened several of these films already at his film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. Unknown perhaps to many he has been combing over the entire spaghetti western genre finding gems off the radar. Everyone knows of Leone's films but there is a ton other in this genre that deserve viewing. Sections like this at festivals are a great way for great films that somehow have fallen through the cracks to now gain new attention and audiences (and hopefully a decent home video release). Bravo Venice and Tarantino for putting this on.