A Fistful of Film is a biweekly Sunday film club dedicated entirely to the western; a genre built on dust, violence, myth, and moral reckoning. From classic Hollywood tales of frontier justice to revisionist and Spaghetti Westerns that tore the myth apart, the club explores how the western has been used to tell stories about power, greed, loyalty, and survival.

Programming ranges from iconic genre landmarks to stranger, darker, and more politically charged entries. Expect gunfighters with questionable motives, revolutions that blur into betrayals, and landscapes that feel as hostile as the people crossing them. These are westerns where heroism is never simple and violence always leaves a mark.

A Fistful of Film is interested in how the western evolved. How it reflected its moment, responded to social change, and travelled across borders to be reinvented in Italy, Spain, and beyond. Spaghetti Westerns, revisionist takes, and overlooked international titles sit alongside earlier classics, offering a broad and restless view of the genre.

Each screening is introduced with context that enriches the viewing without flattening the experience, giving audiences a way into the film’s themes, production, and legacy. Discussion is encouraged, but the focus remains on the shared experience of watching these films together, in the dark.

Hosted downstairs at The Ill Repute, A Fistful of Film embraces the grit and intimacy that suits the genre perfectly. This is western cinema stripped of romance and nostalgia. It's raw, political, and alive.

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