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Post by Fox in the Snow on Feb 7, 2019 10:27:22 GMT
Sukiyaki Western Django
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 7, 2019 17:42:13 GMT
The Master Gunfighter (1975)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Feb 7, 2019 18:25:05 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 7, 2019 19:53:31 GMT
A favourite film of mine is the Czechoslovakian western, Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera , Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera (1964) Oldřich Lipsky. A clean-living, soft-drink-selling gunfighter takes on a town full of whiskey-drinking cowboys in this unusual offbeat western. A parody of the American western with a running satire of American capitalism and cultural imperialism, values embodied by the soft drink Kolaloka, the favoured drop of our white suited hero. Lemonade Joe is masterly crafted from the creative heart of Lipsky, it is a very stylish and original work of cinematic art. Highlighted with a cast full of exuberant energy, featuring some great music including a riotous honky tonk number on the saloon piano , outrageous bar fights, card game crooks, a femme fatale, there is just so much going on... Highly Recommended !! an incredibly entertaining offbeat western film.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 7, 2019 20:07:20 GMT
Dirty Little Billy (1972) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0068487/reference
Pre fame mud and rags telling of Billy The Kid.
Directed by Stan Dragoti, co-written by Dragoti and Charles Moss, and starring Michael J. Pollard, Richard Evans and Lee Purcell. Music is by Sascha Burland and cinematography by Ralph Woolsey.
Dirty Little Billy firmly de-glamourises the Billy The Kid legend, well sort of. This is a portrayal of the infamous outlaw before he became just that. Film is telling of what he was before he made his first kill, his weak standing in society, his turbulent family life, and his tentative steps to making friends - where he is clingy extreme. The backdrop is one of mud and rags, there is no showy Wild West here, it very much operates as an Anti-Western, an independent picture firmly offering up a flip side to some of the legends printed as fact. Technically it is just ok, where things are strongly hindered by Pollard simply being too old. Asking a 33 year old man to play a teenager is a stretch, it is with much credit that Pollard gives it his all and nails at the least the village idiot side of Billy pre his fame.
Not a hidden gem by any stretch of the imagination, it does however show up a side to Billy The Kid not often told in the history of film and literature. Worth seeking out for that point of reference, but as entertainment or a viable Western film of note? I'm not sure. 5/10 Damn, you beat me to it, I was going to mention Dirty Little Billy. Yeah this was a grimy and muddy film, and with Pollard in the lead role automatically you know it's going to be quite offbeat. I caught it on TV a long time ago and I seem to remember much of the movie centered around Billy and these other people drinking heavy and acting rowdy in a saloon. Haven't seen it since.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 7, 2019 20:15:56 GMT
Die Söhne der großen Bärin , The Sons of Great Bear (1966) An East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovakian filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslavian actor Gojko Mitić . The story was adapted from a of novel by German author and historian Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. A pioneering film in the genre of the Ostern (Red Western) the excellent and unusual tale has an emphases on the positive portrayal of Native Americans, while presenting the settlers as antagonists and American govt. officials as exploitive & corrupt, dispelling the fictional romantic adventurism of colonising the Wild West... Highly popular in Eastern Europe , Son's of Great Bear became one of the most successful pictures produced by the DEFA film studio and paved the way for a dozen sequels from the same genre which came to be known as the Indianerfilme…
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 7, 2019 20:27:40 GMT
Koya no toseinin , The Drifting Avenger (1968) directed by Jun'ya Satô A Japanese western ! Has a setting in the old American west but filmed down here in Australia ! With some great local talent seamlessly dubbed into Japanese ! and with a uniquely Japanese slant this is an unusual offbeat brutal tale of revenge. From ugly villains, saloon bar fights, to dramatic shootouts this exciting film covers all of the familiar territory of the western genre. Filmed on location in country near Tamworth NSW, it was a massive culture shock for the quiet rural area in 1968 OZ . The stunning Australian landscape settings are expansive and beautifully portrayed, star Ken Takakura is an outstanding actor his every move captivating, here he replaces his yakuza weaponry with a six shooter and rifle, which he uses for revenge with deadly proficiency, however he does get to draw upon his slain fathers samurai sword to fulfil his blood-drenched quest... A wonderfully entertaining action packed film, if you enjoy western film, Classic Japanese samurai yakuza , Ken Takakura, there is much to enjoy in this unusual, unique Toei production. Highly Recommended !
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Post by teleadm on Feb 7, 2019 20:34:18 GMT
It looks like a western, it feels like a western, but it takes place in South Africa:
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 7, 2019 20:36:10 GMT
Forty Guns (1957) Samuel Fuller Jessica Drummond: I'm not interested in *you*, Mr. Bonnell. It's your trademark. [gestures at his gun, purring] Jessica Drummond: May I feel it? Griff Bonnell: Uh-uh. Jessica Drummond: Just curious. Griff Bonnell: It might go off in your face. Jessica Drummond: I'll take a chance.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 7, 2019 21:09:14 GMT
The ones I would have chosen are taken so
LOST TREASURE OF THE AZTECS 1964 - It seems to be a western, although they have a strong man character who seems more suited for a Peplum. At the beginning he helps an old Indian guy who is being abused in town, and yet it ends with him and friends destroying the Aztec civilization! It switches from western to lost city quest. A very strange one.
THE BIG GUNDOWN - the murderer/son-in-law appears to be a serial killer, that was an unusual twist.
DJANGO KILL! IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT! - It's possible that the supernatural exists in the story since the Tomas Milian character may well be dead--there's a hint of him being resurrected by the Indians. But even without it, the film has a strange atmosphere-almost Gothic horror.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Feb 7, 2019 22:55:05 GMT
Tears of the Black Tiger 2000
Welcome to Blood City 1977
From Noon Till Three 1976
Red Sun 1971
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 7, 2019 23:17:41 GMT
at the time it was made, this one was considered rather an "unusual and offbeat" western
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Post by geode on Feb 9, 2019 19:55:17 GMT
Zachariah (1971) the first electric Western. With Country Joe and the Fish.
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