Cult Films DJANGO [BLU-RAY]

Sergio Corbucci’s ground-breaking Django is one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever. Seminal, yet banned for decades, its aesthetics of visual cruelty transcended the genre and shaped today’s film-making language. Its major influence is declared by Quentin Tarantino - among many Hollywood directors - and seen in all his films. The modern action hero also began here, with the legendary Franco Nero playing the eponymous Django, the mysterious gunslinger who arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town - dragging a coffin behind him - to face a group of sadistic marauding bandits and an army of hooded Ku Klux Klan-like psychopaths. Presented uncut, from new 4K-restored elements, this definitive version is pristinely faithful to the original filmmakers’ vision; as attested by Ruggero Deodato (of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ fame) who shot several scenes of ‘DJANGO’ early in his career, as the then-Assistant to Sergio Corbucci. DJANGO & DJANGO BONUS FEATURE A riveting feature-length testimonial by Quentin Tarantino complements this edition: showing many clips, he explains how Corbucci’s ‘Django’ permeates his own films from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to his resounding tribute ‘Django Unchained’. And whimsically Tarantino tells how, in his ‘Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood’, his fictional actor, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, ends up working for the real Sergio Corbucci (By Steve Della Casa and Luca Rea. Directed by Luca Rea. 2021. 78 Mins). SPECIAL FEATURES: On-disc interviews with Franco Nero on being Django, Ruggero Deodato (of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ fame) on being Sergio Corbucci’s assistant on Django and his friend. Alex Cox (Creator of the BBC’s ‘Moviedrome’ & cult-Director of ‘Repo Man’) defines DJANGO New English subtitles & additional English SDH New Blu-ray encode sourced from 4K-Restored original negative, presented in Full 1080P HD Review "Sergio Corbucci defined the Spaghetti Western with this hugely successful picture" --Empire "The movie that saw the Spaghetti Western explode ...stupendous ultraviolence ... makes Tarantino Reservoir Dogs tribute seem demure" --Uncut "Funny, visceral, bloody, no-nonsense entertainment with a touch of class...Rates alongside Leone s Dollars Trilogy as one of the daddies of the Spaghetti Western genre" --Time Out