Italian pop culture expert, programmer and director Luca Rea first became acquainted personally with Quentin Tarantino in 2004 when he curated the “Italian Kings of the B’s” retro…
that Tarantino “godfathered.” They hit it off and stayed in touch. So when Rea was approached by producer Nicoletta Ercole about a year ago to make a Sergio Corbucci doc, he immediately hoped to be able to tap into Tarantino’s insight about the late great Italian director whose Spaghetti Westerns they both love. But, of course, Rea wasn’t sure he would get Tarantino on board for his doc “about how he pulled off that coup and what Tarantino’s insight revealed. Excerpts.
Tarantino, I immediately used as a selling point the fact that we had footage of Corbucci on set. Even though we didn’t have it. The Super 8s hadn’t surfaced yet! Only at the start of this year, these reels that contain a total of roughly two hours of footage – from the end of 60s to the start of the 70s of Corbucci on set – finally surfaced.He replied saying: ‘Okay, I’ll do it. Let’s figure out when and how.’ And then at the start of the year, I got an email from an assistant in which he said he could do it at the beginning of April.We had a crew in L.A., but Steve Della Casa and I were in Rome on Skype.
Growing up during Fascism was formative for Corbucci in terms of his [leftist] political idealism that he never hid; it’s just that nobody had established the connection between his political passion and his Westerns, even though we found proof of this in archive interviews in which he says as much. And this can be read clearly in his films. In the doc, if you hear Tarantino talk about this and then see clips of the films, you can read it as well.
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