Once Upon A Time ...

Sundays 11pm on ITV4

A season of Spaghetti Westerns introduced by Alex Cox.

Fresh from launching as the most successful digital TV channel ever, ITV4 will be the home of classics movies kicking off with a series of Sunday night Spaghetti Westerns including the classic 'Django' and 'My Name Is Nobody'.

Each of the films will be accompanied by a specially shot introduction written and presented by Alex Cox.

Alex Cox knows his film. Filmed on location at the famous 'Texas Hollywood Studio' in the Tabernas desert where many of the films were originally shot Alex provides a contextualisation of each of the films in the series including classics such as 'A Bullet for the General', 'Keoma' and 'Texas Adios' .

The series uses the filmic techniques of the original productions, arresting graphics in the style of the opening titles and an artful music score by Ennio Morricone intercut with carefully chosen clips that will illustrate and illuminate the films on show, it's place in the cannon and it's contribution to the genre.

The series starts on Sunday November 6th the introductions are at 11pm with the films following straight after at 11.05 The full season is;

6th November - Django (1966)
13th November - Django Kill (1967)
20th November - Vengeance (1968)
27th November - My Name Is Nobody (1973)
4th December - They Call Me Trinity (1971)
11th December - Texas Adios (1966)
18th December - A Bullet For the General (1967)
25th December - The Big Showdown (1972)
6th January 2006 - Keoma (1976)