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Article: Venice eats up spaghetti Westerns.(Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" to premiere at the Venice International Film Festival)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Japanese helmer Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" a tribute to spaghetti Westerns that features a Quentin Tarantino cameo, will world preem in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where Tarantino is hosting a retrospective celebrating the Italo oater genre.
Meanwhile, "Searchers 2.0," a comic homage to Sergio Leone by British helmer Alex Cox ("Repo Man" "Sid and Nancy"), is also locked into a Lido berth, in the cutting edge Horizons section.
Shot in English, Miike's film is centered on two gangs struggling over control of a 19th century Japanese frontier town. Movie is inspired by "Django" the 1965 spaghetti Western helmed by Sergio ...