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How Spaghetti Westerns Shaped Modern Cinema
In the realism, the set pieces, the operatic music, Sergio Leone was pointing the way towards modern filmmaking.
by
Quentin Tarantino
via
The Spectator
on
June 1, 2019
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Why It’s Time To Retire The Whitewashed Western
The original cowboys were actually Indigenous, Black and Latinx, but that's not what Hollywood has generally led us to believe.
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How Does a Film Become Lost?
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The Trouble With Uplift
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