During the Band Pro Film & Digital One World Open House in Burbank, California, Italian Film Director, and master of Italian-Western cinema, Enzo G. Castellari shares his experiences and work over the years. If you don’t already know, he became famous during the 1960's by directing several spaghetti westerns such as Go Kill and Come Back (1967), One Dollar Too Many (1968) and more. In this interview Castellari elaborates on how he got started in the business, along with his inspirations and thoughts on the differences between shooting on film vs. today's current digital technology.
What many people may not know, is that many of Enzo's films have inspired some of today's famed directors, such as Quentin Tarantino, to reinvent some of his original movies. (Fun Fact: Enzo loves making cameos in his movies, inspired by Hitchcock, and then inspiring Tarantino to do the same.)
In 1978 Enzo directed "The Inglorious Bastards", which was the inspiration behind Tarantino's 2009 "Inglorious Basterds". Quentin Tarantino even took the opportunity to invite Enzo to Berlin during the shooting, which he stayed for one month. Castellari says he loves Tarantino’s passion for movies and cinema, stated how he and Tarantino spoke for hours on their thoughts about movies, it’s past and its future. Castellari says “We are from different generations, but the passion we have for cinema is the same.”
Currently working on another western, which has been in the works for a few years, there seems to be no stopping Enzo Castellari and his love of Italian/western and gun slinging cowboys.
image courtesy of Google
