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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.

Film reviews can be found on the Reviews page, and essays and book reviews are on the Articles page. Also check out our Links page for other spaghetti-related sites.

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 March 9th, 2012

This month, we bring you our first music review, a great album from Lou Pecci, Spaghetti Western Themes for Nylon String Guitar. You can also listen to excerpts below.

In other news...

The Shout! service that operated the little chat box that you used to see in the sidebar has changed their fee structure, so for now, there is no chat box. I'm going to look into other options. And yes, I will someday fix the juke.

Also, we'd like to let you know about a potential movie that could be in the works. Scriptwriter Ron Bramhall has written for director Mike Mendez, They Paid in Blood, a horror western with some heavy spaghetti influences.
They're trying to get an internet buzz going for for the film to try to get some funding. There's a teaser trailer here, that you can watch. Spread it around, it looks like it could be a great film. I'll post more info on it, as I get it.