Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Limited Edition Bundle (Imprint / Arrow)

Description: COLLECT THE ULTIMATE PECKINPAH BUNDLE - IMPRINT 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION AND ARROW OOP 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION ***** SELLERS NOTE: THE ARROW LIMITED EDITION IS LOCKED REGION B - YOU MUST HAVE A REGION B PLAYER TO VIEW ****** - IMPRINT LE BOX - WAS ONE MAN’S LIFE WORTH 1 MILLION DOLLARS AND THE DEATH OF 21 MEN? Sam Peckinpah’s cult classic Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia comes to high-definition Blu-ray for the first time in Australia. Starring Warren Oates (The Wild Bunch, Stripes) and Isela Vega, this gritty, violent neo-western has become a cult classic. It was awarded four stars from Roger Ebert on release (his highest rating), and writing about it again in 2001, he described the film as “extraordinary, a true and heartfelt work by a great director who endured despite, or perhaps because of, the demons that haunted him”. A piano player and his lover stumble across one last, precious chance at happiness: in order to claim more money that they’ve ever dreamed of, all they have to do is retrieve the head of a wanted man. But the path to their ultimate escape is littered with dangers – some, of course, of the fatal variety. “No other filmmaker on earth could have conjured up this strange, obsessive… uniquely fascinating picture.” – The Washington Post Limited Edition 2-Disc Hardbox. 1500 copies only. Special Features & Technical Specs: Disc One: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia 1080P High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2017 4K scan of the original camera negative NEW Audio Commentary by filmmaker / Peckinpah scholar Mike Siegel (2023) Audio Commentary by co-writer/co-producer Gordon Dawson, moderated by Nick Redman Audio Commentary by Peckinpah scholars Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, and David Weddle, moderated by Nick Redman Audio Commentary by Peckinpah expert Paul Seydor and assistant to the director Katy Haber, moderated by Twilight Time producer Nick Redman Isolated Score Track by composer Jerry Fielding Passion & Poetry: Sam’s Favorite Film – a film by Mike Siegel on the making of Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia featuring interviews with key cast & crew NEW Promoting Alfredo Garcia – animated gallery featurette NEW Filming Alfredo Garcia – animated gallery featurette NEW Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man: ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’ and Sam Peckinpah’s Last Chance – Video essay by film writer Travis Woods A Writer’s Journey: Sam Peckinpah In Mexico – an interview documentary with author Garner Simmons Peckinpah in Locarno – an interview with Katy Haber about Alfredo Garcia at the Locano Film Festival’s 2015 Peckinpah retrospective US TV Spots Theatrical Trailer Aspect Ratio 1.85:1 Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English HOH Subtitles Disc Two: Passion & Poetry – The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah The acclaimed feature documentary film by Mike Siegel about the life & times of Sam Peckinpah featuring many cast & crew interviews NEW 1080P High-definition presentation upscale presented on Blu-ray for the first time Audio Commentary by filmmaker/Peckinpah scholar Mike Siegel Stories on a Storyteller: The Westener, Art & Success, and Poet on the Loose – a three part feature documentary with additional interviews NEW Mike’s Home Movies: Behind the scenes, Retrospectives & Festivals NEW The Passion & The Poetry Project – a documentary about Mike Siegel and his works on Sam Peckinpah (2023) NEW Passion & Poetry in Portugal – impressions from the 2022 Portugese Sam Peckinpah retrospective (2023) Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 Audio English LPCM 2.0 ──────────────────────────────────── “Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Imprint) – A truly comprehensive release of one of the greatest Peckinpah films. There’s no aspect of this film (and Peckinpah’s career) not covered in this package.” – Tim Leggoe - ARROW OOP LE EDITION - NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia concluded a remarkable period for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. It brought to an end a seven-year and seven-film run of masterpieces that included the taboo-breaking ultra-violence of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and the more elegiac tones of The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia sits somewhere between these moods and may just be Bloody Sam's greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical. Warren Oates plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). Sensing an easy pay day, Bennie takes his girlfriend, Elita (Isela Vega) on a trip that'll prove fatalistic for many of those involved. During a career that was blighted by studio interference, Peckinpah would later say that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was the only one which ended up exactly as he wanted: "I did it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not, that was my film." And it was. This is as close to 'Pure Peckinpah' as it gets - beautiful, violent, troubling, heartbreaking, astonishing. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS • Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release • Original 1.0 mono audio • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Brand new audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies, recorded exclusively for this release • Audio commentary by Sam Peckinpah scholars Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle, moderated by Nick Redman • Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, Paul Joyce's feature-length 1993 documentary featuring interviews with James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Monte Hellman, Ali MacGraw, James Robards and others, available on home video in the UK for the first time ever • The John Player Lecture: Sam Peckinpah, audio recording of the director's on-stage appearance at the National Film Theatre • Four songs by Kris Kristofferson, filmed during the making of Man of Iron • Theatrical trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain • Extensive collector's booklet containing new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and numerous reprints including interviews and more [Limited Edition exclusive] LIMITED EDITION BONUS BLU-RAY (OOP) Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron - The Director's Cut A brand-new, extended version of Paul Joyce's documentary, containing more than *TEN HOURS* of previously unseen interview footage, featuring actors RG Armstrong, James Coburn, L@ Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Jason Robards, director Monte hellman, producers Michael Deeley and Daniel Melnick, writers Alan Sharp and Jim Silke, writer-producer Gordon Dawson, assistant Katherine Haber, editor Garth Craven, satirist Mort Sahl, property master Bob Visciglia, bar owner Tom Runyon and cousin Bob Peckinpah, plus newly-shot interviews with Joyce, Haber and actor David Warner

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