Corbucci was the second most well known director of Italian westerns following Sergio Leone. He is most famous for the ultra violent Django (1966) which was so popular in Europe it spawned dozens of unoficial sequels. Other Corbucci westerns of note include Minnesota Clay, The Hellbenders, Companeros

Dark, Death, Grotesque, In-your-face, Physical force, Pioneering, Severe, Visceral

Hal Hartley is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase. Though gently provocative and self-effacing, there had been evidence of a radicalized social engagement in Hartley’s earliest features

Funny, In-your-face, Political

Steven Seagal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star who burst onto the martial arts film scene in 1988 in the fast-paced Warner Bros. film Above the Law (1988). The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at

Implosive, In-your-face, Machinistic, Masculine, Pop, Rebel

Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane. Born hydrocephalic (water on the brain), Alexie underwent brain operation at the age of six. He survived the surgery,

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