The Wild Bunch R
Unchanged men in a changing land
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ernest Borgnine & William Holden | |
Performer: | Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson, Edmond O'Brien, Bo Hopkins, Emilio Fernandez, Strother Martin & Alfonso Arau | |
Directed by | Sam Peckinpah | |
Edited by | Lou Lombardo | |
Screenwriting by | Walon Green & Sam Peckinpah | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Art Direction by | Edward Carrere | |
Story by | Roy N. Sickner | |
Produced by | Phil Feldman | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1970 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Jerry Fielding
Entertainment Reviews:
There is an unpleasant feeling of expense, of enormous amounts of money being spent, tons of footage being shot in order to get one slow-motion instant that will stamp home Peckinpah's obsessive theme
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Artforum
If you must see The Wild Bunch, be sure to take along a barf bag.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
...Virtually every character in THE WILD BUNCH is a fully fleshed-out, complex portrait of humanity....It's a tale that is just as important and pertinent as ever...
Variety
Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there's an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off...The Wild Bunch still won't go down easy.
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Newsweek
My favorite western because of the staunch code of loyalty and ethics employed by men outside the law, and for the amazing mingling of eras - the Mexican civil war, Germans and early airplanes are all factors in small but haunting ways.
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Cambridge Day
Arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s -- a western that galvanizes the clichés of its dying genre with a shocking jolt of delirious carnage.
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Village Voice
It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's.
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New Yorker
Product Description:
As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the aging gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honor which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Ernest Borgnine star as the leaders of a grizzled crew of Texan bandits who ride to Mexico, where, one by one, they are unceremoniously slaughtered by a Mexican revolutionary.
The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used aging Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used aging Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
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- UPC: 883929153213
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