The Wild Bunch (Blu-ray) R
Unchanged men in a changing land
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 2
- Released: December 16, 2008
- Originally Released: 1969
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Holden & Ernest Borgnine | |
Performer: | Strother Martin, Edmond O'Brien, Alfonso Arau, Emilio Fernandez, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Warren Oates & Jaime Sanchez | |
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's never been a greater movie about loyalty among men than this...
USA Today
It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's.
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New Yorker
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)
Rating: 2/5 --
Extremely violent '60s Western with drinking and sex.
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Common Sense Media
[A] flawless masterpiece....Peckinpah refined the use of slo-mo violence and graphic bloodshed here, but the deeper artistry was how such actions revealed character...
Entertainment Weekly
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)
If you must see The Wild Bunch, be sure to take along a barf bag.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
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.