The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969): Prince Charles Cinema, 2.45pm
This 35mm presentation, also screening on March 5th, is part of the Sam Peckinpah season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Sam
Peckinpah's notorious western depicted an outlaw gang, made obsolete by
encroaching civilization, in its last burst of violent, ambiguous
glory. By 1969, when the film was made, the western was experiencing its
last burst as well, and in retrospect Peckinpah's film seems a eulogy
for the genre (there is even a dispassionate audience—Robert Ryan's
watchful Pinkerton man—built into the film). The on-screen carnage
established a new level in American movies, but few of the films that
followed in its wake could duplicate Peckinpah's depth of feeling. With
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben
Johnson, Strother Martin, and Albert Dekker; scripted by Walon Green and
Peckinpah from a story by Green and Roy N. Sickner, and photographed by
Lucien Ballard.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the original trailer.
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