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Almería Western Film Festival 2025
The Almería Western Film Festival is a unique kind of film forum. Hosted by the town of Tabernas, the festival celebrates both the Western genre and the local legacy of filmmaking. The surrounding desert landscape has appeared in countless movies over the years, particularly Westerns, including, of course, Sergio Leone’s […]
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Dead Souls
Alex Cox’s new film ‘Dead Souls‘ is now making the festival circuit. Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s novel of the same name, the protagonist, named Strindler (and played by Cox himself), travels through the American southwest seeking to buy the names and details of Mexicans who have died while encountering […]
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2024 Almeria Western Film Festival
Western film fans and curious onlookers gathered last week in Tabernas for the 14th Almeria Western Film Festival.
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The Saloon in ‘Straight to Hell’
“Nothing remains but a fragment of the back wall and some wooden beams. But thirty years ago, when we went STRAIGHT TO HELL, this was our saloon where Strummer snarled at Courtney Love, and Sy Richardson and Dick Rude gunned down the Weiner Kid, and Grace Jones barred Dennis Hopper […]
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