Guest Reviewer Lee Broughton is back, with another Italo Western double bill DVD review. Wild East’s ongoing Spaghetti Western Collection continues to grow and this double bill release is particularly welcome since it features two obscure and wholly idiosyncratic genre entries from 1969. Italian Western directors had found it relatively easy to appropriate key plot points and ideas from Sergio Leone’s Dollars films during the genre’s early years but when Leone’s sprawling, mega-budgeted, meta-Western Once Upon a Time in the West was released in 1968 it was clear that this was one genre entry that local filmmakers would not be able to easily emulate.
With scriptwriters and directors now essentially being forced to come up with their own ideas and generic trends, a new wave of Spaghetti Westerns were produced that effectively took the genre in a multitude of new directions. The two films featured here were part of that wave.
With scriptwriters and directors now essentially being forced to come up with their own ideas and generic trends, a new wave of Spaghetti Westerns were produced that effectively took the genre in a multitude of new directions. The two films featured here were part of that wave.
- 10/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to killing his wife and five children in a grisly 2009 rampage, People confirms.
Mesac Damas, 41, was accused of slitting the throats of his family in their North Naples townhome and then fleeing to Haiti eight years ago. His trial has been repeatedly delayed amidst questions of his mental competency.
On September 18, 2009, authorities arrived at the home for a welfare check. According to a police report obtained by People, cops found the body of 32-year-old Guerline Damas in a downstairs bathroom.
In two upstairs bedrooms, authorities found the bodies of the couple’s 5 children: Michzach,...
Mesac Damas, 41, was accused of slitting the throats of his family in their North Naples townhome and then fleeing to Haiti eight years ago. His trial has been repeatedly delayed amidst questions of his mental competency.
On September 18, 2009, authorities arrived at the home for a welfare check. According to a police report obtained by People, cops found the body of 32-year-old Guerline Damas in a downstairs bathroom.
In two upstairs bedrooms, authorities found the bodies of the couple’s 5 children: Michzach,...
- 9/8/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilovic)
Near the beginning of Evolution, there’s a shot that hangs underwater, showing a seemingly harmonious aquatic eco-system that’s glimpsed just long enough to create the sense of something that, while somewhat familiar, is distinctly outside the human world. This fleeting image though shows the promise of the film Evolution could’ve been. – Ethan V. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Fire at Sea and...
Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilovic)
Near the beginning of Evolution, there’s a shot that hangs underwater, showing a seemingly harmonious aquatic eco-system that’s glimpsed just long enough to create the sense of something that, while somewhat familiar, is distinctly outside the human world. This fleeting image though shows the promise of the film Evolution could’ve been. – Ethan V. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Fire at Sea and...
- 3/24/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
★★★★☆ Following hot on the heels of the Blu-ray release of Requiescant (1967) comes director Carlo Lizzani's Wake Up and Kill (1966), based on the true story of infamous jewel thief Luciano Lutring. Dripping in late-1960s Italian cool, Wake Up and Kill prefigures the grimy American crime cinema of the 1970s, feeling like a grubbier, less self-satisfied Á Bout de Soufflé (1960). With a flawed anti-hero aspiring to criminal infamy, Lizanni's film was surely an influence for a young Martin Scorsese.
- 12/7/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★★☆ The Spaghetti Western, as exemplified by The Good, The Bad, and Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in The West (1968), and Django (1966), is defined by its heightened visual style, its brutality, and its amorality. Carlo Lizzani's Requiescant (1967), nicely presented here in a vibrant and crisp Blu-ray transfer, has the first two in spades - playing out the Spaghetti Western formula like clockwork - yet retains a moral compass often lacking in its more famous brethren.
- 11/23/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Stars: Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Barbara Frey, Rossana Martini, Mirella Maravidi, Franco Citti, Luisa Baratto, Ninetto Davoli, Nino Musco, Carlo Palmucci, Vittorio Duse | Written by Lucio Battistrada, Andrew Baxter | Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Lou Castel takes the lead role in Requiescant, a young man raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher who discovered him as a baby after a massacre of his family. Searching for his adopted sister he soon finders her in the employment of George Ferguson (Mark Damon) an evil landowner who manipulates the young man for his own amusement. When his history is heritage is discovered it is revealed Ferguson was the man who ordered the death of the man’s family all for the control over the land that belonged to them.
Requiescant may not be the strongest story for a Western and it does tend to fluff over a few...
Lou Castel takes the lead role in Requiescant, a young man raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher who discovered him as a baby after a massacre of his family. Searching for his adopted sister he soon finders her in the employment of George Ferguson (Mark Damon) an evil landowner who manipulates the young man for his own amusement. When his history is heritage is discovered it is revealed Ferguson was the man who ordered the death of the man’s family all for the control over the land that belonged to them.
Requiescant may not be the strongest story for a Western and it does tend to fluff over a few...
- 11/17/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
To mark the release of Requiescant on 16th November, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray. Lou Castel (Fists in the Pocket, A Bullet for General) plays a young man who was raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher after Confederates massacred his family. But when his step-sister runs away,
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- 11/12/2015
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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Arrow Video Us's second Spaghetti Western release is Carlo Lizzani's Requiescant, a film I was previously unfamiliar with but was extremely impressed by (particularly after being disappointed by Cemetery Without Crosses). It's also a film that Alex Cox called the “one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely Sergio Leone’s”.
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Arrow Video Us's second Spaghetti Western release is Carlo Lizzani's Requiescant, a film I was previously unfamiliar with but was extremely impressed by (particularly after being disappointed by Cemetery Without Crosses). It's also a film that Alex Cox called the “one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely Sergio Leone’s”.
What starts off as a simple quest by a young pacifist priest to find his runaway step sister, turns into [Continued ...]...
- 11/10/2015
- QuietEarth.us
The Mutilator and Requiescant Bluray Titles Announced!
Mvd Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in the Us with a strong schedule of new titles for September… Requiescant – Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray – Order Here Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, The Hills Run Red) and with a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger, Cannibal Holocaust), Requiescant – Latin for ...
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Mvd Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in the Us with a strong schedule of new titles for September… Requiescant – Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray – Order Here Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, The Hills Run Red) and with a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger, Cannibal Holocaust), Requiescant – Latin for ...
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- 7/2/2015
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Italian neorealist film director and screenwriter who made Last Days of Mussolini, starring Rod Steiger
Carlo Lizzani, who has died aged 91, after falling from a balcony at his home, was a screenwriter and director of Italian neorealist cinema who made more than 40 feature films, as well as documentaries and television series.
His first professional experiences in the film world were as an actor, playing cameos in two powerful neorealist films: Il Sole Sorge Ancora (The Sun Still Rises, 1946), directed by Aldo Vergano; and Caccia Tragica (Tragic Hunt, 1947), Giuseppe De Santis's first feature film.
In 1947 Roberto Rossellini summoned Lizzani to Berlin where he was preparing to shoot Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero). Lizzani did research with East German locals which Rossellini would find useful when the film was being made without a definitive shooting script. Lizzani said later: "Rossellini filmed the story of the boy [Edmund] as if growing up...
Carlo Lizzani, who has died aged 91, after falling from a balcony at his home, was a screenwriter and director of Italian neorealist cinema who made more than 40 feature films, as well as documentaries and television series.
His first professional experiences in the film world were as an actor, playing cameos in two powerful neorealist films: Il Sole Sorge Ancora (The Sun Still Rises, 1946), directed by Aldo Vergano; and Caccia Tragica (Tragic Hunt, 1947), Giuseppe De Santis's first feature film.
In 1947 Roberto Rossellini summoned Lizzani to Berlin where he was preparing to shoot Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero). Lizzani did research with East German locals which Rossellini would find useful when the film was being made without a definitive shooting script. Lizzani said later: "Rossellini filmed the story of the boy [Edmund] as if growing up...
- 10/15/2013
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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