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  • #16
    Final specs for the Arrow release.

    *** BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA FINAL SPECS ***
    The final specs for Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia are in! Check them out in full below and pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/2fgy6QR
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    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 Ferní¡ndez). 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 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:
    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, LQ 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.
    Rock! Shock! Pop!

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    • #17
      I may have to pick this up . The TT release is one I've been meaning to order but haven't gotten around to yet as I rarely check out the SAE site.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post

        LIMITED-EDITION BONUS BLU-RAY:
        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...
        This isn't appealing. It sounds like this will be a fucking slog to get through.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Derrick King View Post
          This isn't appealing. It sounds like this will be a fucking slog to get through.
          It's definitely not :) The footage is broken down into convenient chapters labelled by subject, and each interviewee is introduced by Katy Haber. It's a great resource.

          For the curious, I wrote a review of the Arrow Blu-ray a week or so ago and included some screengrabs comparing it with the Koch Blu-ray released in Italy: http://dvdcompare.net/review.php?rid=4583

          Koch (Italy):


          Arrow (UK):


          The Arrow BD is a big step-up in motion. I'm already willing to say this is one of my favourite Blu-ray releases of the year :)
          'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

          http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
          'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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          • #20
            Same here. And it's such a masterpiece too.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Paul L View Post
              It's definitely not :) The footage is broken down into convenient chapters labelled by subject, and each interviewee is introduced by Katy Haber. It's a great resource.
              Nice to hear it is not a slog. Sigh, now to decide if I like this enough to double dip and have two copies (I think I want to keep the region A/free Blu-ray anytime I double dip on a region B locked Blu-ray.)

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              • #22
                Someone at the Blu-ray forum is claiming that on the new Arrow, a day-for-night scenes have not be properly adjusted. Anyone with the Blu-ray, can you confirm or refute this?

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Derrick King View Post
                  Someone at the Blu-ray forum is claiming that on the new Arrow, a day-for-night scenes have not be properly adjusted. Anyone with the Blu-ray, can you confirm or refute this?
                  They're talking about the cemetery scene which takes place at dusk rather than in the middle of the night.

                  The two frames I posted on the page before validate that the scene is presented the same as on the Koch Blu-ray, and though I haven't checked directly I'll happily assert (with a mild qualification that I've drunk a lot of coffee today) that the cemetery scene is presented as it is on the DVDs and old MGM LaserDisc, and on the 35mm print I saw way back when.

                  KOCH

                  ARROW





                  These are all grabs from the cemetery scene, all taken from the Arrow disc. Seems pretty much like nighttime to me :)

                  The scene with Bennie confronting the locals outside the cemetery and driving off in his car has always looked like it was shot at dawn, as I recall.
                  'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

                  http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
                  'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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                  • #24
                    Yup. Seems typical Blu-ray.com overreaction. Thanks for checking.

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                    • #25
                      No worries :)
                      'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

                      http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
                      'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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