Sergio Corbucci's DJANGO returns to select theaters

[Irish]

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Releasing from Rialto Pictures. December 21 in NY & LA, other theaters to follow.

http://www.rialtopictures.com/django.html

[Grouchy]

That's awesome. I wanted to show it on my movie club as a stand-alone film but my friends decided to go with a whole month devoted to apocalyptic movies instead.

[Stay Puft]

I saw this yesterday. Slept through something like a quarter to a third of it? Should probably just stop going to the movies altogether at this point.

From what I saw, it was about what I expected. But also a bit better in some ways. Low budget and opportunistic though it may be, they still do a pretty good job with the presentation. Some striking images throughout, particularly the motif of having characters appear or move through the very bottom of the frame, in the distance, dwarfed by the expansive sky. Makes everyone feel small, insignificant, which goes with the themes and Django's character arc (there's a pointlessness and futility to the proceedings, expressed most explicitly with the fate of the gold, a cosmic indifference that Django finally decides to fight against, after having resigned himself to withdraw from the world). The last image in particular is quite resonant.

Not a great film, though. Django's arc isn't handled terribly well, tbh, and the many plot twists are predictable. The style, though impressive at times, is also pretty generic at times. None of the action really stands out as impressive. It riffs pretty heavily on the Man With No Name stuff, but doesn't match up to the qualities of those films. Still, it does at least establish its own voice/identity (with the aforementioned themes and visual motifs), so it's hardly bad or worthless or anything. I liked it, just not enthusiastically so. And, again, having slept through part of it, my viewing experience was hardly ideal, so this is a tentative, half-formed opinion at best.

[Grouchy]

I don't get how you can watch Django in theaters and write something as cold as that.

My reaction would probably be AAAAAAAAARGH! AWESOOOOOOOOME RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT DJANGOOOO HAVE YOU ALWAAAAAAYS BEEN ALOOOOONE DJANGO!

[D_Davis]

When I finally saw this movie a few years ago, when it was first released on DVD, and after building up the hype in my mind for years about this "lost classic," I was supremely disappointed.

I like Corbucci's The Great Silence more in every way.