{"id":11595,"date":"2015-06-14T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11595"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:23:30","slug":"the-films-of-tonino-valerii-part-1-day-of-anger-1967-taste-of-killing-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11595","title":{"rendered":"The Films of Tonino Valerii, Part 1: Day of Anger (1967) + Taste of Killing (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DayOfAnger_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11601 alignleft\" alt=\"DayOfAnger_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DayOfAnger_pic.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11594\">Day of Anger \/ I giorni dell&#8217;ira<\/a><\/strong> (1967) from Arrow Video \/ MVD Visual brings back into circulation a fascinating spaghetti western by Tonino Valerii, a writer-director best known for the Sergio Leone-produced <strong>My Name is Nobody<\/strong> (1973). That film is regarded as one of the last major genre entries before comedy killed the genre, as Italian film historian Roberto Curti recounts in one of the Blu-ray\u2019s interview featurettes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Curti, it\u2019s a natural progression when an original is followed by imitations, sequels, and then beaten to death with satires, leaving little to respect until there\u2019s a resurgence. The western may not have re-blossomed much in the way the lasher genre returned and remains a mainstay on home video, but then the western is tougher to recapture, given its distinct period setting (post-American Civil War) and need for unique locations (mountains, sprawling vistas, rivers, and desert towns).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TasteOfKilling_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11611\" alt=\"TasteOfKilling_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TasteOfKilling_poster.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TasteOfKilling_poster.jpg 335w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TasteOfKilling_poster-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve reviewed Valerii\u2019s first two films because they are very distinct in maturity, although there is a sense his feature film debut, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11605\">Taste of Killing \/ Per il gusto di uccidere<\/a><\/strong> (1966), released via Wild East, was a project manhandled by producers. <strong>Day of Anger<\/strong> is more mature, technically proficient, and features a proper screenplay with dramatic beats and a compelling set of main characters \u2013 the last quality undoubtedly the result of Ernesto Gastaldi\u2019s expertise as a skilled screenwriter in structure and dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to reviewing Arrow\u2019s Blu-ray, I compare the extras that remain exclusive to the Wild East DVD, since each edition features noteworthy goodies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: one of my favourite transpositions of Shakespeare to a more contemporary setting makes its debut on Blu-ray \u2013 Richard Loncraine\u2019s still deliciously morbid <strong>Richard III<\/strong> (1995), from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of Tonino Valerii&#8217;s first two films, the spaghetti westerns Taste of Killing (1966) from Wild East and the newly restored Day of Anger (1967) in gorgeous HD from Arrow Video USA \/ MVD Visual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3709,2562,2563,3701,3711,2902,3712,3710,3702],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DayOfAnger_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-311","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}