mantis2k
01-23-2003, 03:21 AM
I would like to thank gimpusmons AKA Mark Pollard for opening up this section in one of the finest forums on the internet! Nice one Mark!;)
I hope more and more people will be encouraged to post here! I am still very new to Spaghetti Westerns, however I hope we can all learn from each other and share knowledge!
I think the best way to start this section is to give a brief history of Spaghetti Westerns.
Between 1960 and 1975, European film production companies made nearly 600 Westerns. Critics either blasted or ignored these films, and because most of them were financed by Italian companies, they called them Spaghetti Westerns. Fans of the genre embraced the term which is now lovingly used to label any Western made and financed by Continental filmmakers. (more...) (http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/infocus/spaghetti.htm)
I hope more and more people will be encouraged to post here! I am still very new to Spaghetti Westerns, however I hope we can all learn from each other and share knowledge!
I think the best way to start this section is to give a brief history of Spaghetti Westerns.
Between 1960 and 1975, European film production companies made nearly 600 Westerns. Critics either blasted or ignored these films, and because most of them were financed by Italian companies, they called them Spaghetti Westerns. Fans of the genre embraced the term which is now lovingly used to label any Western made and financed by Continental filmmakers. (more...) (http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/infocus/spaghetti.htm)