“B is for B Movie” B is for Brutal: Italian Cult Legend Enzo G. Castellari Onstage at Cine-Excess VI
Saturday 26th May – 4pm (Odeon Covent Garden)

Cine-Excess VI is proud to present a special on-stage discussion and retrospective by one of European cinema’s most influential and iconic cult directors: Enzo G. Castellari.  Although best known as the influence behind Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster remake of The Inglorious Bast***s  (2009), Castellari came to prominence during the 1960s and 1970s for a series of cop, war and western movies, which used fantasy landscapes and genre clichés to work through masculine tensions prominent in Italy during the era. Although he has worked across a number of genres in this capacity, all of Castellari’s texts evoke the central dynamics of the Italian western (with their emphasis on male punishment, combat and the motif of vendetta). As a frequent collaborator of Franco Nero, Castellari has elevated the western mythology to a domain of male melodrama and unabashed masculine brutality. These visceral displays of suffering have been enlivened by the innovative use of slow motion and technical effects that the director pioneered over the course of his career, which came to the fore in the post-apocalypse films he completed in the early 1980s. With titles such as The Bronx Warriorsand The New Barbarians (1982), Castellari further demonstrated a unique skill in cult adaptation, by reworking science-fiction motifs to underscore a set of specifically Italian political and gender concerns. 

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Image courtesy of Enzo G. Castellari