Cult Classics from the Rialto Collection
Thursday, November 3 | 8 pm
Cutting an ominous figure in a mud-splattered Union uniform, a blue-eyed drifter materializes in a nameless border town, hell-bent on revenge and dragging a coffin behind him. Coming to the aid of Maria, a beautiful prostitute, Django (Franco Nero) finds himself embroiled in a turf war between Mexican revolutionaries and racist ex-Confederates. Loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) and directed with eye-popping intensity by Sergio Corbucci, this gothic Spaghetti Western capitalized on the popularity of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and earned a significant following of its own, spawning more than twenty authorized and unauthorized sequels. Unabashedly sexy and deliriously violent, Django made a big impression on Quentin Tarantino, who restaged one of the film’s bloodiest set-pieces in his 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs and borrowed its irresistible theme song for his Oscar winning Django Unchained (2012).
Director Sergio Corbucci 1966 Italy/Spain 91 minutes NR DCP
