The Wild Bunch R

Unchanged men in a changing land
The Wild Bunch
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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

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1970 - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Jerry Fielding

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh91%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 34,162
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 Full Review
Artforum
Jun 18, 2019
If you must see The Wild Bunch, be sure to take along a barf bag. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 31, 2019
...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
Feb 27, 1995
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. Full Review
Newsweek
Feb 20, 2018
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. Full Review
Cambridge Day
May 24, 2019
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. Full Review
Village Voice
Apr 29, 2013
It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's. Full Review
New Yorker
Mar 28, 2016

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.

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  • UPC: 883929153213
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