The Wild Bunch (Original Director's Cut Special Edition) (2-DVD) R
Unchanged men in a changing land
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2006
- 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:
Rating: 2/5 --
Extremely violent '60s Western with drinking and sex.
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Common Sense Media
Remains hugely impressive, both for its technical brilliance and the emotional ferocity of its themes: old age, friendship, betrayal and the struggle to retain some kind of cock-eyed code of honour in an increasingly cynical world.
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Independent (UK)
Peckinpah's work, immaculately framed and searingly edited, leads us to wonder whether film form is hopelessly, and inevitably, in thrall to brutality.
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Independent on Sunday
The Wild Bunch is the last and indisputable epic story of the Western genre. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
...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
It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's.
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New Yorker
..It represents its set of sad, empty values with real poetry....Seeing this restored version is like understanding the film at last...
Chicago Sun-Times
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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