A Bullet for the General (Damiani, 1966) & Face To Face (Solima, 1967):
Mildmay Club, Newington Green, London, N16, 6.30pm
Michael McGrath-Brookes of Brunel University is introducing and screening a four-day radical Spaghetti Westerns season at the Mildmay Club in Stoke Newington (full details if you scroll down here). Tonight's double-bill is shown under the banner heading of 'Anti-Facism.'
Time Out review of A Bullet for the General:
A spaghetti Western on a par with Leone's. It shares Volonté and Kinski with For a Few Dollars More,
and Luis Bacalov's haunting score was 'supervised' by Ennio Morricone,
but the politics are more radical than anything Leone stood for (it ends
with a ringing call to arms: 'Don't buy bread, buy dynamite!'). Lou Castel
plays a tight-lipped gringo who insinuates himself into Volonté's gang
of Mexican bandits on the fringes of the revolution. The film charts the
peculiar friendship between these two blinkered mercenaries, and
Volonté's belated arrival at a political consciousness. This
intelligent, compelling reversal of the archetypal Hollywood schema (in
which an American star lends his gun to the peasants' cause) was
scripted by Franco Solinas, who also contributed to Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano, Costa-Gavras' State of Siege, Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and Queimada!
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer for A Bullet for the General.
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