Heat Wave: DJANGO (1966) – Presented by David Bertrand

The films are hot, but the Revue’s AC will be cranked for the films in this summer’s Heat Wave lineup.

Heat Wave at the Revue Cinema, a lineup of the greatest summer movies ever made, continues on August 13th with the definitive spaghetti western DJANGO with an introduction by Stompbox curator, David Bertrand! 

Nothing says sun and sweat quite like Frano Nero dragging a coffin through the desert. 

With an addictively catchy theme song, this definitive spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE) made an international star out of Franco Nero and officially ushered in the subgenre alongside Leone’s “Man With No Name” Trilogy. DJANGO’s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of over 50 unofficial sequels. Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious, charming loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him… (AGFA)

We don’t get to see enough Westerns up on the big screen, and this is one of the genre’s gritty peaks. Nero is iconic, the film is violent, muddy, grim, cynical, morally confused, bloody, haunting and inescapably awesome. Django! (DAVID BERTRAND) 

Part of the Heat Wave series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Cast: Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez, Eduardo Fajardo