spaghetti western

Example Sentences

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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

A trio of revenge plots engulfs Roman Perfilyev’s genre-bending Ukrainian samurai spaghetti western.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

“When I saw a Sergio Leone spaghetti western for the first time, it was the closest thing to a superhero movie for me,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

This spring, the spaghetti western songslinger with an unmistakable baritone threw a word-of-mouth tour warm-up show at Yen Wor, hiring a West Seattle buddy to bring a stage and lighting into the karaoke bar.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

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

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021