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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.

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 Aug. 14th, 2008

Review of Sartana's Here, Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (the Carnimeo Sartana with George Hilton in the role instead of Gianni Garko), by Len Liu.

In other news...

The new issue of Westerns All'Italiana is out, the SWDB has it available for download here.

Also, there's a must-read thematic essay over at Bright Lights Film Journal called Gothic Eurowesterns. Of particular interest are Corbucci's Django, Garrone's Django the Bastard and a few others. Go have a look.