spaghetti western

Example Sentences

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It wouldn’t be overstating the case to point to certain bold casting choices — Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” say, or Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of Dollars” — and see not merely the arrival of major screen stars but the birth of entirely new subgenres: the nebbishy cringe comedy and the spaghetti western, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times

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

OK, but “Birdman” over Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?

From Los Angeles Times

The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds, ekes out an existence on the American Plains.

From Science Daily

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