Django
Dir: Sergio Corbucci
1966
****
Sergio Corbucci's original 1966 Django is no masterpiece but it's just one of those films you can't help but think 'That's so flipping cool'. Its the best kind of Spaghetti western, a precursor to exploitation films and 1970's independent cinema, as well as being a huge influence on contemporary film makers, Quentin Tarantino being the most obvious (although I still don't think his version is as good). The imagery is superb, Django pulling his coffin behind him and then revealing what is inside is cinema at its most kick-ass. Why Sergio Corbucci didn't sue José Mojica Marins over his 1968 film Coffin Joe I'll never know. The first of an interesting franchise.