Woody Strode as Jake in "The Professionals" (1966). (Photo: Cinema Retro Archive.)
This is too good to be true for retro movie fans. The great Woody Strode will be commemorated with a film festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Strode, a former professional athlete, was one of the first African-American actors to break the glass ceiling, appearing in supporting roles in many major films. The festival, titled "The Legend of Woody Strode", will offer a rare opportunity to see many of his films on the big screen. Here is the official press release.
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The Legend of Woody Strode
February 11–March 6, 2022
Despite the lack of opportunities for actors of color in his era, Woody Strode left a legacy worth revisiting. Strode, the six-foot-four pioneering athlete turned movie star, was born in 1914, in South Central Los Angeles, to Black and Native American parents.
This is too good to be true for retro movie fans. The great Woody Strode will be commemorated with a film festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Strode, a former professional athlete, was one of the first African-American actors to break the glass ceiling, appearing in supporting roles in many major films. The festival, titled "The Legend of Woody Strode", will offer a rare opportunity to see many of his films on the big screen. Here is the official press release.
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The Legend of Woody Strode
February 11–March 6, 2022
Despite the lack of opportunities for actors of color in his era, Woody Strode left a legacy worth revisiting. Strode, the six-foot-four pioneering athlete turned movie star, was born in 1914, in South Central Los Angeles, to Black and Native American parents.
- 1/27/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Original Django (1966) will be available on 4K Ultra HD with Texas Adios included on Blu-ray May 25th From Arrow Video
In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-us border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries
With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels.
The film is presented here in its 4K Uhd Blu-ray debut, with a wealth of extras. Also included is the bonus feature Texas, Adios on Blu-ray,...
In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-us border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries
With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels.
The film is presented here in its 4K Uhd Blu-ray debut, with a wealth of extras. Also included is the bonus feature Texas, Adios on Blu-ray,...
- 4/16/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Our friends at Arrow Video continue to deplete my already non-existant retirement fund with their latest annnouncement of new releases for April of 2019. In this month they'll bring several older films to Blu-ray for the first time as well as a contemporary Japanese sci-fi from a current cult champ, Miike Takashi. See the gallery below for details regarding Richard Friedman's Scared Stiff (Us/UK), Riccardo Freda's The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire (Us/UK), Harley Cokeliss' Black Moon Rising (UK), Enzo Castellari's Keoma (Us), and Miike Takashi's Terra Formars (Us/UK)....
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- 1/25/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Escape From New York is one of the greatest genre films ever made. It’s lean, it’s mean, and it has an absurd premise and setting that’s just begging for exploration. It’s a bona-fide John Carpenter classic. And much like Halloween before it, it inspired quite a few knockoffs. From Sergio Martino’s 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983) to Lockout (2012), Escape From New York has become a regular genre knockoff touchstone. But today, I want to focus on just two: Enzo. G Castarelli’s Bronx series.
The saga began in 1982 with 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Castellari’s attempt to blend Escape From New York, The Road Warrior, and The Warriors into one sci-fi actioner. The film is set in, well, the Bronx circa 1990, now a “no man’s land” where absurdly themed gangs run free and squabble over land without police interference. The skyline is intact,...
The saga began in 1982 with 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Castellari’s attempt to blend Escape From New York, The Road Warrior, and The Warriors into one sci-fi actioner. The film is set in, well, the Bronx circa 1990, now a “no man’s land” where absurdly themed gangs run free and squabble over land without police interference. The skyline is intact,...
- 12/29/2017
- by Perry Ruhland
- DailyDead
Some know it in its original Italian form as Zombi Holocaust (or Zombie Holocaust), while others adore the re-edited Us release known as Doctor Butcher M.D., but with their upcoming two-disc Blu-ray of Marino Girolami’s 1980 horror film, Severin Films aims to please all sides with uncut releases of both versions of the movie.
Featuring over two and a half hours of special features, Severin Films’ Zombie Holocaust / Doctor Butcher M.D. Blu-ray hits shelves on July 26th:
Press Release: It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS, and forever set an insane standard for Italian mad doctor/zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide: Ian McCulloch (Zombie), Alexandra Delli Colli (The New York Ripper), Sherry Buchanan (Tentacles) and Donald O’Brien (Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals) star in this blood orgy of gut-munching, eyeball-gouging and face-chopping originally known as Zombie Holocaust, which a notorious American distributor would then re-edit,...
Featuring over two and a half hours of special features, Severin Films’ Zombie Holocaust / Doctor Butcher M.D. Blu-ray hits shelves on July 26th:
Press Release: It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS, and forever set an insane standard for Italian mad doctor/zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide: Ian McCulloch (Zombie), Alexandra Delli Colli (The New York Ripper), Sherry Buchanan (Tentacles) and Donald O’Brien (Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals) star in this blood orgy of gut-munching, eyeball-gouging and face-chopping originally known as Zombie Holocaust, which a notorious American distributor would then re-edit,...
- 6/3/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Raro Video resurrects an exploitation goodie masquerading as another bit of cheap Eurosleaze, Hitch Hike (aka Autostop Rosso Sangue) a 1977 thriller from Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile. Like a tawdry version of an early Polanski effort, it’s a significant anomaly of its ilk for several reasons, the most notable being its director, usually known as a fixture of 1970’s Italian-style comedy (aka commedia all’italiana). Adapted from the novel The Violence and the Fury by Peter Kern, it’s headlined by Franco Nero, French actress Corinne Clery (the title character from infamous The Story of O, 1975) and grindhouse staple David Hess (The Last House on the Left, 1972), while predictable story elements spiked with moments of brutal violence should be enough to rejuvenate interest in a title not often screened in the Us (despite its initial box office success in Europe).
Walter Mancini (Franco Nero), a bitter, alcoholic journalist, is...
Walter Mancini (Franco Nero), a bitter, alcoholic journalist, is...
- 3/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Cine-excess, the international film festival and conference devoted to cult media, has confirmed its 2012 line-up and unveiled a teaser trailer.
The sixth annual festival, this year titled Transglobal Excess: The Art and Atrocity of Cult Adaptation, takes place at the Odeon Covent Garden and The Italian Cultural Institute, both in London, from Thursday May 24 to Saturday May 26.
Special guests include Quentin Tarantino favourite Enzo G. Castellari, director of the original Inglorious Bastards.
There are screenings of two of his cult favourites, the futuristic Bronx Warriors (May 26) and spaghetti western Keoma featuring Franco Nero (May 25). Castellari will be present for a Q&A at both events.
Also appearing will be Sergio Martino, master of the giallo horrors such as Torso and other genre explotation movies including Mountain of the Cannibal God and The Violent Professionals.
Italian Cultural Institute is screening Your Vice Is A Locked Door And Only I Have The...
The sixth annual festival, this year titled Transglobal Excess: The Art and Atrocity of Cult Adaptation, takes place at the Odeon Covent Garden and The Italian Cultural Institute, both in London, from Thursday May 24 to Saturday May 26.
Special guests include Quentin Tarantino favourite Enzo G. Castellari, director of the original Inglorious Bastards.
There are screenings of two of his cult favourites, the futuristic Bronx Warriors (May 26) and spaghetti western Keoma featuring Franco Nero (May 25). Castellari will be present for a Q&A at both events.
Also appearing will be Sergio Martino, master of the giallo horrors such as Torso and other genre explotation movies including Mountain of the Cannibal God and The Violent Professionals.
Italian Cultural Institute is screening Your Vice Is A Locked Door And Only I Have The...
- 5/22/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
UK lovers of all things cult cinema would do well to mark May 24–26 on their calendars as the Cine-Excess International Film Festival and Conference returns for a sixth year of screenings and discussion regarding all things pulp and cult.
Events will take place at London’s Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden, and The Italian Cultural Institute. To give an idea of the goodies and guests in store, the folks behind the festival have also released a tantalising trailer to which we have the key...
About Cine-Excess:
Cine-Excess VI is an annual international film festival and conference which attracts global filmmakers, scholars, distributors, and exhibitors to an event which features filmmaker discussions, a themed 3-day conference, and 5 to 7 UK theatrical premieres/exclusive screenings. Cine-Excess is open to the public, who can book either screening delegate passes for individual films or full delegate passes for the conference, lunches, and all Cine-Excess screenings.
Cine-Excess...
Events will take place at London’s Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden, and The Italian Cultural Institute. To give an idea of the goodies and guests in store, the folks behind the festival have also released a tantalising trailer to which we have the key...
About Cine-Excess:
Cine-Excess VI is an annual international film festival and conference which attracts global filmmakers, scholars, distributors, and exhibitors to an event which features filmmaker discussions, a themed 3-day conference, and 5 to 7 UK theatrical premieres/exclusive screenings. Cine-Excess is open to the public, who can book either screening delegate passes for individual films or full delegate passes for the conference, lunches, and all Cine-Excess screenings.
Cine-Excess...
- 5/19/2012
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
Although it made almost no impact in the American market, Sergio Corbucci’s violent entry in Europe’s Sergio Leone copycat western sweepstakes made the charismatic Franco Nero into an international star and led to over 30 unofficial “sequels”, most of which simply appropriated the name and don’t even feature a character named Django. Nero repeated the character in only one authorized sequel, Django Rides Again.
- 3/5/2012
- by admin
- Trailers from Hell
Franco Nero has been around. Since his star turn in the iconic Spaghetti Western Django, the Parma born movie star has appeared in more than 150 films, spanning all four corners of the globe. He’s been in musicals like Camelot (with his future wife Vanessa Redgrave), pumped up 80s action films like Die Hard 2, cop thrillers (The Marseille Connection), comedies (Cippola Colt) and even Bruce Lee inspired martial arts movies like Enter the Ninja.
“I did everything,” he explains,
“I think I’m the only actor who’s worked with the cinematography of all nations. I’ve done movies with a Brazilian director, an Australian director, films in Russia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, from all over the world. So I’ve had a lot of fun. Why not?”
Nero is in town to attend this year’s Cine Excess Film Festival, a three day conference on global cult cinema where...
“I did everything,” he explains,
“I think I’m the only actor who’s worked with the cinematography of all nations. I’ve done movies with a Brazilian director, an Australian director, films in Russia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, from all over the world. So I’ve had a lot of fun. Why not?”
Nero is in town to attend this year’s Cine Excess Film Festival, a three day conference on global cult cinema where...
- 6/2/2011
- by Tom Fallows
- Obsessed with Film
Outdoor cinema, London
Let the open-air cinema season commence (and all the traditional meteorological uncertainties that go with it). The British summer now has its regular outdoor cinema fixtures, most of which get going in July and August, but some new additions to the calendar kick off this week. Best of the bunch is the Nomad pop-up cinema, which roams across London's royal parks, and occasionally beyond, from now until September. And it's not just endless reruns of Dirty Dancing; this one has some quality cinema. On Sunday, it's got Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert under a big top in Mile End Park – not technically outdoors, admittedly – then next Saturday it's Casablanca in Dulwich park, and over the coming months it's showing choice titles such as The Life Aquatic, The Wicker Man, Black Cat White Cat and kids' films Wall-e and The Goonies. There's also a pop-up cinema in Ravenscourt...
Let the open-air cinema season commence (and all the traditional meteorological uncertainties that go with it). The British summer now has its regular outdoor cinema fixtures, most of which get going in July and August, but some new additions to the calendar kick off this week. Best of the bunch is the Nomad pop-up cinema, which roams across London's royal parks, and occasionally beyond, from now until September. And it's not just endless reruns of Dirty Dancing; this one has some quality cinema. On Sunday, it's got Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert under a big top in Mile End Park – not technically outdoors, admittedly – then next Saturday it's Casablanca in Dulwich park, and over the coming months it's showing choice titles such as The Life Aquatic, The Wicker Man, Black Cat White Cat and kids' films Wall-e and The Goonies. There's also a pop-up cinema in Ravenscourt...
- 5/20/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Well fiends, it is another week for us to plop down our hard earned dollars for some ghoulish digital entertainment. The week we have an exploitation classic hitting Blu-Ray as well as its remake plus more! Check it out beyond the break.
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Alice in Murderland
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From IMDb.com – It’s Alice’s birthday and her sorority girlfriends throw her a themed party. Everyone comes as their favorite,...
- 2/8/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Good movie soundtracks are hard to find. The Crow was one of my favorites back in the day, with great songs by Helmet, Pantera, The Cure and The Jesus and Mary Chain. It's hard finding a good soundtrack for movies that has a great group of artists on it. In fact, I'm trying to remember the last one I bought that wasn't a score of the film. Desperado was good. Vicki Cristina Barcelona was really chill. The Hangover wasn't too bad.For fans of movie soundtracks, here's a nice one for ya. The pop/punk songs from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World are available for your viewing pleasure.There are songs from Beck, Frank Black (of the The Pixies) and The Rolling Stones. I've never heard of the other artists but I'm way out of touch with today's music because most of it sounds like over produced garbage (Flo Rida,...
- 8/10/2010
- LRMonline.com
Reduced to catching frogs for food, Confederate soldiers returning from the war are treated as second-class citizens and hunted down by a gang of bounty hunters (in a similar premise to The Great Silence), operating under the protection of local law enforcement agencies.
Guiliano Gemma (The Day of Anger, A Pistol For Ringo) plays Michael 'California' Random, one such soldier who takes the naive Willy Preston (Miguel Bose) under his wing. When his companion is shot in the back and strung up for stealing a horse, California travels to his parents' Georgia ranch to break the bad news. In typical style he falls for Helen, his dead comrade's sister, and following the senseless killing of three Confederates by bounty killer Rope Whitaker (Raimund Harmstorf) and his men, he gets caught up in the ensuing crossfire as federal agents arrive to take Whitaker down. The sister is taken hostage as the gang make their escape,...
Guiliano Gemma (The Day of Anger, A Pistol For Ringo) plays Michael 'California' Random, one such soldier who takes the naive Willy Preston (Miguel Bose) under his wing. When his companion is shot in the back and strung up for stealing a horse, California travels to his parents' Georgia ranch to break the bad news. In typical style he falls for Helen, his dead comrade's sister, and following the senseless killing of three Confederates by bounty killer Rope Whitaker (Raimund Harmstorf) and his men, he gets caught up in the ensuing crossfire as federal agents arrive to take Whitaker down. The sister is taken hostage as the gang make their escape,...
- 12/14/2009
- by Nick
- Latemag.com/film
Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty is kicking off his in-depth weeklong tutorial on all things Quentin Tarantino for the latest installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves and our Quentin Tarantino trivia quiz. The Original Bastards: ‘Guys on a mission’ Italian-style If you’re reading this, then you’re probably already hip to the fact that Quentin Tarantino has a new (and badly spelled) new film coming out on August 21 called Inglourious Basterds. And depending on your level of interest in the Pulp Fiction auteur and his well-chronicled movie-geek obsessions, you may also already know that the Brad Pitt WWII epic is loosely based on a fairly obscure (and better spelled) Italian-produced action flick from 1978 called Inglorious Bastards. I’ve seen Tarantino’s Basterds already and I think it’s absolutely fantastic -- the best thing he’s done...
- 8/18/2009
- by Chris Nashawaty
- EW.com - PopWatch
Sergio Corbucci's Django revolutionised the Spaghetti Western genre in many ways. The low-budget retelling of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars – itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo – ramped up the violence, the amorality, the bloodletting and the insanity factor to an unprecedented scale, spawning a glut of rip-offs, cash-ins and unofficial sequels of varying degrees of quality. It also, quite unintentionally, began a trend for titular heroes whose names ended in the letter 'o' and when said quickly enough could possibly be mistaken for Django.
There was Anthony Steffen - the Spaghetti Western standard-bearer, himself no stranger to playing Django - starring as the main man in both Garringo and Shango. 'Sword and Sandal' star Brad Harris as the fast gun in Durango is Coming, Pay or Die. Montgomery Clark (Dante Posani) as the gambling gunslinger in Djurado and Ivan Rassimov in this, 1967's Cjamango.
There was Anthony Steffen - the Spaghetti Western standard-bearer, himself no stranger to playing Django - starring as the main man in both Garringo and Shango. 'Sword and Sandal' star Brad Harris as the fast gun in Durango is Coming, Pay or Die. Montgomery Clark (Dante Posani) as the gambling gunslinger in Djurado and Ivan Rassimov in this, 1967's Cjamango.
- 8/15/2009
- by Nick
- Latemag.com/film
Jeffman from Head Full Of Snow recommends five Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Sergio Leone.
A bruised and battered stalwart of the late night cinema circuit, the Spaghetti Western held a bastardised, custom-job revolver to the head of its inferior American cousin and relieved it of both its basic premise and last shred of decency; joyously blurring the line between right and wrong and leaving morality swinging from a ragged noose in the hot, desert sun.
The Spaghetti Western was an Italian phenomenon, mostly financed by Rome's famous Cinecitta Studios, although there were plenty of co-productions with other Euro countries like Spain and Germany, even stretching as far afield as Israel if you count the soul-sapping awfulness that is God's Gun. One man is responsible for popularising the Spaghetti Western, Sergio Leone. If you're a follower of LateMag's frequent forays into the weird and wonderful worlds of cult cinema you'll probably know his films already.
A bruised and battered stalwart of the late night cinema circuit, the Spaghetti Western held a bastardised, custom-job revolver to the head of its inferior American cousin and relieved it of both its basic premise and last shred of decency; joyously blurring the line between right and wrong and leaving morality swinging from a ragged noose in the hot, desert sun.
The Spaghetti Western was an Italian phenomenon, mostly financed by Rome's famous Cinecitta Studios, although there were plenty of co-productions with other Euro countries like Spain and Germany, even stretching as far afield as Israel if you count the soul-sapping awfulness that is God's Gun. One man is responsible for popularising the Spaghetti Western, Sergio Leone. If you're a follower of LateMag's frequent forays into the weird and wonderful worlds of cult cinema you'll probably know his films already.
- 6/10/2009
- by Nick
- Latemag.com/film
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