The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968): & Cut-Throats Nine (Marchent, 1972):
Mildmay Club, Newington Green, London, N16, 2.30pm
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 Nihilism/Violence.
Time Out review of The Great Silence:
Growing in stature as the years pass, the bleak majesty of Sergio
Corbucci’s dark, complex meditation on the human cost of progress
threatens to outstrip the bleached, hallucinatory, hyper-violent
‘Django’ as his crowning achievement. Set in Utah during the Great
Blizzard of 1899, it follows the mute Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a
hired gun with a particular interest in the state-sanctioned bounty
hunters – exemplified by Klaus Kinski’s mannered, controlled, entirely
deadly Loco – who are clearing the land of anyone who doesn’t have their
finger in the pie. Though overflowing with theological subtext and
social indignance, it’s an uncommonly reserved film by spaghetti western
(and Kinski) standards, but when that silence is broken, the noise and
fury are truly something to behold.
Adam Lee Davies
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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