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You've found A Fistful of Pasta, a (sometimes irreverent) look at the genre films known as Spaghetti Westerns, or Eurowesterns.

There were over 500 westerns made in Europe between 1965 and 1975. Some were serious artistic achievements in filmmaking, completely redefining the western film genre, and elevating it to an art form. Others were simply B-movies of varying quality, and in some cases, worse. And for better or worse, we love them all (well, most of 'em, anyways), and if you're still reading this, you probably do, too.

In addition, from time to time we will feature westerns from other parts of the world, such as India, South Africa, and an occasional American western, too.

If you have any questions, suggestions, corrections, or see something that doesn't look right, please drop us a line at the contact page. We'd love to hear from you.

For every last thing you'd ever want to know about these films, the best place on the web is The Spaghetti Western Database. If you haven't been there yet, you're missing out on a great resource for these films.

What's New - updated June 24th, 2009

J.D. has a review of the just-released book by director Alex Cox, 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western.

In other news:

Also, in other recent Spaghetti reviews on the web worth reading, check out Son of Django's review of the violent Why Go On Killing? and a French language review of Born to Kill, at Spara, Gringo, Spara!

Also, I've written a review of the Dorado Films upcoming release of The Three Musketeers of the West, over at the DB that you should have a look at.

We are proud to give you our 100th review. Scherp has graced us with a review of what many (myself included) consider the greatest spaghetti western of all time : Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time In The West.

NOTE: I realize the jukebox isn't working right now, I'm working on it and am hoping to fix it shortly, I'll let you know when it's all fixed. Thank you for your patience.

We're always looking for good writers of anything related to the genre, so if your're interested, click on the Django in the sidebar.