spaghetti western

Example Sentences

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West Seattle’s foremost purveyor of alt-country noir is back with another scintillating set of spaghetti western ditties marked by Amaker’s unmistakable baritone, which is equal parts folksy and sinister.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2024

The daughter is pop '80s/'90s, the grandmother, who tells tall tales as many grandmothers do, is a spaghetti western, and the mother, who is still traumatized by Iran, is a neorealist Kiarostami film.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

“I told them, man, that’s like 1940s, 1950s spaghetti western stuff.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021

‘A Fistful of Dollars’ Running through Sept. 16, an 11-film salute to Clint Eastwood kicks off with the gruff-voiced, squinty-eyed star shooting up the screen in Sergio Leone’s classic 1967 spaghetti western.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2021

It has hints of early 2000s R&B, a spaghetti western vibe and, as she put it on Twitter, “a fairy sprinkle of Country, duh.”

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2021