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The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

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The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Directed byPaul Seydor
Produced byNick Redman
Paul Seydor
Narrated byNick Redman
Edited byPaul Seydor
Production
company
Tyrus Entertainment
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • November 1996 (1996-11)
Running time
34 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage is a 1996 American short documentary film directed and edited by Paul Seydor.[1] The occasion for the creation of this documentary was the discovery of 72 minutes of silent black-and-white 16 mm film footage of Sam Peckinpah and company on location in northern Mexico during the filming of The Wild Bunch.

Cast

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Source:[2]

  • Walon Green as himself (voice)
  • Newell Alexander as Cliff Coleman, William Holden (voice)
  • Edmond O'Brien as himself (voice)
  • James R. Silke as Friend / colleague (voice) (as Jim Silke)
  • Mitch Carter as Gordon Dawson, Strother Martin (voice)
  • Jerry Fielding as himself (voice)
  • Sharon Peckinpah as herself (voice)
  • L. Q. Jones as himself (voice)
  • Ernest Borgnine as himself (voice)
  • Peter Rainer as Bud Hulburd (voice)
  • Ed Harris as Sam Peckinpah (voice)

Reception

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Michael Sragow wrote that the film is "a wonderful introduction to Peckinpah’s radically detailed historical film about American outlaws in revolutionary Mexico — a masterpiece that’s part bullet-driven ballet, part requiem for Old West friendship and part existential explosion. Seydor’s movie is also a poetic flight on the myriad possibilities of movie directing."[3] Seydor and Redman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).[4][5]

Home media

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The documentary was included on the 2006 and 2007 DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Wild Bunch.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Gentner, Richard (November–December 1996). "New Documentary Reviewed: Seydor on Peckinpah". The Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 17 (5). Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
  2. ^ TCM.com
  3. ^ Sragow, Michael (October 20, 2000). "The Wild Bunch". Salon.com.
  4. ^ "Breathing Lessons" winning Best Documentary Short - Oscars on YouTube
  5. ^ 1997|Oscars.org
  6. ^ The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) - WorldCat.org
  7. ^ Amazon.com: The Wild Bunch (Blu-ray)
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