TWO VENUS BOOKS OF SPAIN. MINNESOTA CLAY 2010 ended with a bang for the original publications on the spaghetti western .
Two books published in Spain can take stock of an unknown part of the genre: the actual role of filmmakers, technicians, English actors who created and anticipated, in many ways, what posterity attributed solely to Italian cinema.
Juan Gabriel Garcia, a journalist with La Voz de Almeria , daily local and regional memory, already author of a biography of laid most famous Almeria, El Habichuela publish a collection of interviews with rich and varied filmmakers, actors, and what is much rarer, technicians unknown image, frame, decoration, production : the commissioner to the script.
Joaquin Romero Walk, Eugenio Martin, Eduardo Fajardo, Simon Andreu, not to mention the most famous, the tone of what was the invention of a genre, Iberian side. An overall contribution unparalleled and indispensable now on this side too often unknown to the spaghetti western.
Juan Gabriel Garcia Los Espanoles del Western , Editorial Circulo Rojo, 2010, (Foreword by Enzo G. Castellari).
The ambition of the author of Western
English, Pedro Guttierez ReCache, is very large. It intends to demonstrate that English filmmakers, long before the Italian Leone, have created a genre well codified and authentic precursor of business development and aesthetics of western Europe.
tightly packed 400 pages sourced and fully identify all that is creative business and industry: the conditions of production, filming, from birth and use of scenery, tour operating through the tortuous paths of censorship Franco.
ReCache deftly draws on period documents, consulting, among others, the magazine Fotogramas and interviews with past glories or sidekick time: Fernando Sancho, Antonio Molino Rojo, Lex Barker, Giuliano Gemma, Hugo Fregonese and even ... Clint Eastwood, in an amazing interview in April 1964, done at Madrid, where the actor, then unknown in Spain, says running a co-production began in Italy 15 days earlier, along with a beautiful German actress, on behalf of uncertain Marianne Kock o Cook "(Marianne Koch), without even mentioning the name the director ... Sergio Leone.
The article is reproduced and then we discover the face of the unnamed man, photographed supermodel between two planes of A Fistful of Dollars , relaxed in a beautiful designer stubble, necessary the shooting, but elegant shirt collar wide open.
foreword by Carlos Aguilar the book devotes a long section Joaquin Romero Walk, this major filmmaker and inventor forgotten by the history of cinema in many shapes Scope Colors that leave to posterity the western Mediterranean .
It's so rare to find a new reading of some kind , we would highly advise purchasing this book, even to Hispanic unsophisticated, given the quality and the novelty of the information that we can peck or eat there.
Pedro Gutierrez ReCache, English Western El Cine del Oeste como subgénero espanol (1954-1965), Generalitat Valenciana, 2010, (Preface by Carlos Aguilar).