This was part of the Venice Film Festival press kit on the Spaghetti Western Retrospective. It included a list that's pretty much posted here already. Besides the same list of films it listed two retrospective events.
Retrospective eventsUna Questione poco privata - Conversazione con Giulio Questi (2007) by Gianfranco Pannone
Gonin no shokin kasegi (The Fort of Death, 1969) – di Kudo Eiichi
The articles at the referenced website seemed to be Italian only.
The 64th Venice Film Festival and Telecom Progetto Italia
present the retrospective sectionSpaghetti Westerns - The Secret History of Italian Cinema 4
The new series of screenings and restorations for the Secret History of Italian Cinema 4, part of the programme of the 64th Venice Film Festival (29th August - 8th September 2007), will be devoted to the Spaghetti Westerns. The Festival is directed by Marco Müller and organised by the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Davide Croff. The project is realized by the Festival with Telecom Progetto Italia (the subsidiary of Gruppo Telecom Italia that organises cultural events throughout the country, involving bodies, institutions and the public in the rediscovery of Italy’s cultural and artistic heritage), with the support of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit Culturali, in partnership with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale and with the participation of Cineteca di Bologna, Cineteca del Friuli e Cineteca Lucana.
As part of the permanent activities and cultural holdings that have been rediscovered and restored, the selection of the Spaghetti Westerns represents the ideal continuation of the work undertaken with the Secret History of Italian Cinema, started in 2004, and which has, for the past four years, successfully revamped the recovery of the ‘invisible’ Italian cinema, alongside the parallel initiatives of the Secret History of Asian Cinema in 2005 and Secret History of Russian Cinema in 2006.
The Secret History of Italian Cinema 4 - Spaghetti Westerns programme is curated by Marco Giusti and Manlio Gomarasca, with L’Officina Filmclub (Paolo Luciani and Cristina Torelli), in collaboration with leading Italian and foreign scholars of films of this genre. It will include the screening of 31 Italian feature films (and of a surprising Japanese Spaghetti Western) during the 64th Venice Film Festival, selected on the basis of the relationship between great importance and high degree of ‘invisibility’: films that have not been in circulation for at least two decades, here restored and reconstructed in their integral version, which Telecom Progetto Italia will also support through an in-depth analysis activity on its own website
www.telecomprogettoitalia.it.
As for the first edition of the Secret History of Italian Cinema in 2004, the “godfather” of this initiative will be the great American film-maker, Quentin Tarantino, a profound connoisseur and admirer of Italian cinema. Alongside Tarantino, directors, producers, actors, script-writers, photographic directors and stuntmen will also be present in Venice.
The appeal of the “Spaghetti Western”, our “Western in the Italian way”, more than 40 years after the release of Sergio Leone’s A fistful of dollars, seems as strong as ever, considering the homage recently paid to this genre from different directors, such as Tarantino, and also Martin Scorsese, Johnnie To and John Woo in their films. Spaghetti Westerns are the films that have done most to influence the image of popular cinema in the past few decades, and which have founded one of the most important currents in “New Cinema” (and political cinema) Italy has ever known.
The homage of the 64th Venice Film Festival to Spaghetti Westerns does not end with the retrospective of the Secret History of Italian Cinema 4: as occurred in 2006 with Johnnie To’s Exiled and with Piotr Uklanski’s Summer Love, there will be many contemporary and new references to the spaghetti Western present this year, offered as world premieres in the various sections of the Festival. There will be no lack of surprises in this regard, bearing witness to the still fruitful influence of the “Italian-style Western”, an infinite, timeless genre, on many film-makers from different continents. The two brand new spaghetti western presented in world premiere at the 64. Festival are Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) by Miike Takashi and Searchers 2.0 (2007) by Alex Cox.
