There's still just under a few weeks until Us audiences will taste the end of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy from director Edgar Wright. This writer was lucky enough to catch the film early at Comic-Con last month (read my glowing review here), and coming fresh off a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again. But in the meantime, why not journey to the beginning of Wright's career around 1995 and watch his first feature film, A Fistful of Fingers, which parodies Sergio Leone's A Fisftul of Dollars trilogy, the iconic western series starring Clint Eastwood. Here's Edgar Wright's first feature film, A Fistful of Fingers, in full (via The Playlist): The film follows Graham Low (the living statue in Hot Fuzz) in the lead role as “No-Name”, a gunslinger who...
- 8/5/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Forgotten Films [1] is a semi-regular feature on Film Junk where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. You probably know Edgar Wright as the man behind the camera for most of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's collaborations including Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and even before that, the TV show Spaced. However, with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World coming out this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to look back at his very first feature film, a hard-to-find low budget comedy made without Pegg and Frost called A Fistful of Fingers. Edgar Wright got his start making movies in England at a very young age, and by the time he was 18, he was already generating some fairly high quality stuff. If you have the Hot Fuzz special edition DVD or Blu-ray, you may have...
- 8/13/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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