Enzo G. Castellari

Castellari kicks ass.

En waarom dan??

Derde persoon enkelvoud is Enzo G. Castellari. Die meneer linksbuiten good ol' Tarantino

Volgens mij heeft wouter deze site ook al eens getipt.

Heb nog een aantal films hier liggen die ik nog moet zien (staan niet allemaal op de site). Via ebay vandaag ook Eagles over London besteld.

"Jay Slater: I’ve spoken to a number of few British acting performers, such as Ian McCulloch, Catriona MacColl, and Caroline Munro who have appeared in Italian exploitation films. They have all said that it was a problem to be paid. In some cases, such as Munro, they apparently weren’t paid at all. Did this ever happen to you while you were in Italy?

Fred Williamson: "I got paid very well. I didn’t go there with the idea of making money, anyway. I was capturing a foreign market and my foreign liability. Anybody who says they limit themselves on a monetary basis is not thinking clearly about their future. I mean, to have a market in more than one place is really the ultimate. My whole concept is to be viable as an international actor, and anyone who goes out there looking for money is limited in his or her thinking."

Jay: I’d like to discuss your work with Enzo G Castellari. Let’s start with The New Barbarians. Castellari told me that he thought it was his cheapest and poorest looking film, which he shot in five days. What are your memories of the film?

Fred: "Well, at the time, Enzo Castellari was the best action director in the world. Castellari was very good at shooting fast and quickly. He had this similar American style of shooting a film, but while he says he shot the film in five days, you know, that might be an exaggeration (laughs)! That was longer than five days for sure... I had mosquito bites all over me. That’s the one where I said that I’ll be the guy with the bow and arrows but I want them to be a little different. When I shoot an arrow, I want it to explode! I wanted to make it seem that this guy has a lot more weaponry than it seemed at first."

Jay: So I take it that Castellari would let you improvise and give suggestions?

Fred Williamson: "Oh yeah, well he had to do that. He knew that I know my market better than he did. So I was really gearing towards what I did – how I walked and acted – to my particular market. You know, it would have been strange to see me in this bow and arrow stuff anyway if I wasn’t Fred Williamson. If I had lost my identity totally I would have been Hercules, an Italian Hercules! But I wanted to maintain my own identity and still be dressed up in this weird outfit and I did that by having these tricks and gadgets.""

Jay: Castellari is still making the films that he chooses to direct. If a part were made available for you, would you take it?

Fred: "I’d leave tomorrow. First, I wouldn’t even ask what they were paying. I know what they are prepared to pay is below what I’d be making in the States, but I would be enjoying my work and having a good time. Yeah, I’d be in Rome."

Jay: Your fight sequences in The Bronx Warriors do seem to be well rehearsed and are certainly energetic stuff. Can you tell me about the other actors who get beaten up every few minutes?

Fred: "Well, I had to practise with them because the majority of those guys aren’t martial-arts people – they’re stuntmen. These Italian guys have the bigger hearts as stuntmen than anyone else I have worked with. If you tell one of them to jump out of a two-storey window, they wouldn’t rehearse - they’d just jump out of that window! They’d say, 'How was that?!' (laughs). Sometimes the reply would be, 'You have to do that again as we didn’t have time to film you on camera, man!'. So these guys have big hearts. All you have to do is show them the way, teach them the right form and style. You know, you can kick these guys in the head, bounce them off walls, they do all the things that an actor in America would do but have at least fifty guys looking after them. Those Italians... they go hell for leather, man! They’re great. They’re the best."

Jay: What can you tell me about the male lead, Mark Gregory? Castellari told me that he was a "problem" on set.

Fred: "Well, did he explain to you what the problem was?"

Jay: Yeah, something on the lines that his mother was allegedly an alcoholic and his father died under mysterious circumstances. A bad upbringing for any child.

Fred: "Well, that’s not the problem he had. That might be all very true but that was not the problem. The problem with Mark is that he had this Hercules body but, you know, he wasn’t over-muscular. The fact is that he was feminine. We had problems in getting him to walk. He minced, man! When he was standing and posing, we had to teach him not to put his hands on his hip and give it that big girl pose because he had a little sweetness in him (laughs). Mark was ''sweet'... We discovered him working out in a gym but he didn’t know he was 'sweet' until we put him on the set and he had this way of standing that was very feminine. You know, he would always prop one leg against the other leg and then put his hand on his hip. It’s not the hero image, man! So there you have it, that’s the problem we had with Mark, he was 'sweet'."

Jay: Another Castellari film of yours is the excellent The Inglorious Bastards, without a doubt, one of the best Italian war films.

Fred: "Yeah, that was with Bo Svenson and me. That was one of their biggest-budgeted films. They spent a lot of money on it – at least two million dollars. Unlike other Italian films that are shot in studios, this time we were out in the field doing an American-type film. There were a lot of bad things happening at the time when we were making the film. I mean, their president or whatever got kidnapped and we weren’t allowed to use guns for the film."

Jay: Isn’t that rather limiting for an action war movie?

Fred: "(Laughs) Yeah, but Castellari had a great special effects guy and his name was 'Bombido' because anything he touched exploded. He was a little short guy. Well, he came up with a way of having sparks coming out of the guns. So we had wire running under the barrel of the machine gun that was connected to a battery, so when the trigger was pulled, sparks came out. We had spark guns, you know, we faked it and it looked really good. 'Bombido' has this truck and when you opened the door, all this shit would fall out everywhere with his machines which he used to make these guns."

Meer leuks:

http://www.slasherama.com/features/fred.HTML

Cool interview, heb nu Castellari's post-apocalypse films op dvd (Post Apocalyptic Triple Feature erg mooie uitgave van Shriek Show ), Keoma besteld en ga binnenkort maar eens wat van zijn misdaad-films met Franco Nero en Fabio Testi bestellen. Is er verder nog wat fatsoenlijk op dvd verkrijgbaar wat de moeite waard is? Zou mooi zijn als bv. BlueUnderground met een mooie dvd van Inglorious Bastards kwam.

Leuk filmpje (begint pas echt na 3 min.) met een jonge Enzo G. Castellari aan het woord.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eRML8SUUo&mode=related&search=

Leuk interview Wouter(zie 't nu pas). Moet eens achter wat werk van deze man aangaan.

Verwacht geen foutloze meesterwerken, maar rommelige films waarin regelmatig briljante ideeen langskomen.

Blue Underground wil High Crime begin volgend jaar uitbrengen;

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/blue-underground-forgotten-70s-cinema-interview-with-bill-lustig/

Mooi. Een van de weinigen Castellari's die ik nog niet heb en volgens velen een van zijn besten.

"BLAKE: What are some of the latest happenings at Blue Underground? There is a rumor going around that you are stepping down in a year.

LUSTIG: It’s true. I have a schedule now that goes for a year and unless I find films that really excite me, I was thinking rather than put out films I don’t particularly like, maybe I should let the company continue to sell the titles I have in my catalogue. It’s a thought."

Ai. Fijne club, dat Blue Underground.

Nou heb ik totaal geen kennis van het Italiaans, maar het lijkt me dat (recente, juli 2007) onderstaande tekst over een nieuwe film van Castellari met Franco gaat (volgens mij het project waar Enzo al jaren mee bezig is: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=%22Gli+implacabili%22+castellari&meta=);

"- Si riapre la saga de: "GLI IMPLACABILI" da un...

- Si riapre la saga de: "GLI IMPLACABILI" da una dichiarazione di Franco Nero sembrerebbe che la pellicola diretta da Castellari sia in procinto di partire e per la location si sarebbe scelta proprio la patria dello spaghetti western: l'Almeria in Spagna, incrociamo le dita e speriamo che sia la volta buona " (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O2eS-xAIY8)

Zou mooi zijn.

Castellariu kondigde hem al aan op de Duitse Johnny Hamlet dvd.

Zien is geloven, maar ik hoop mee.

http://www.moviecompany.de/index1.php?id=12

De namen Liam Neeson, Ethan Hawke, Mickey Rourke , Quentin Tarantino , Keith Carradine, Christopher Lambert en Rodney A. Grant zijn in een eerder stadium genoemd.

Te vroeg gejuichd:

"Last communication I had with Enzo (this past August) he said he still had plans to make this Western, but that it wasn't even close to being in the pre-production stages. He has no idea when he will get around to making it.

The German financing that Nero has spoken about in the press a few times was apparently contingent upon the film being made for Television, and Castellari didn't want to make a made for TV movie, so he turned it down (so he told me).

By the way, Enzo has been teaching film classes at the University in Alicante, Spain for the past year.

I know Franco and Enzo both want to make this Western..and I know that we all want them to make this Western, too..but, frankly, I am not sure it will ever happen. They have been talking about this particular project since before Blue Underground released their first batch of Italian Westerns on DVD.

Hate to rain on the parade, so to speak...but, I just thought I would let you guys know what Enzo told me in August."

Net een widescreen versie van High Crime binnen!

Ook besteld:

http://www.midnight-media.demon.co.uk/CASTELLARI.html

Een bootleg van High Crime? Laat eens weten hoe dat boekje is als je het binnen hebt, zag het laatst al op ebay staan maar dik is het niet hè?

Het is net zo dik als de andere uitgaven van midnight media, maar een stuk minder interessant. Het is een interview langs alle films, maar echt veel nieuws of interessants krijg je niet te weten. Alleen voor fans.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00153CLNA/103-5459828-7685415?ie=UTF8&tag=aintitcooln07-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00153CLNA

Iemand in de buurt van L.A....?

http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/events.html

Eindelijk Striker en Hammerhead gevonden, zal die laatste binnenkort eens toevoegen.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQ_QvFKIW0&feature=related

Severin pakt de release goed aan;

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=kJrfUdV8hZE

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_v8HzvyTw

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Yko2Ot9f-Wk

( http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=mK-Fvdcc0j4

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1DLJA7d_Q

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=uy5Wis7UaAU )

en nog een oudere Q&A met Tarantino en Castellari (over Eagles over London);

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=k3RTve6AQpk

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=4339k-RR9ds

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJWYloRe3c

Hoop dat door Tarantino's remake iemand Castellari geld durft te geven voor zijn nieuwe Western.

In een reactie op dit interview wordt vermeld dat Fabio Testi op de Duitse TV beweerde dat er een Duitse producer in het project is gestapt.

http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/52193