The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage | |
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Directed by | Paul Seydor |
Produced by | Nick Redman Paul Seydor |
Narrated by | Nick Redman |
Edited by | Paul Seydor |
Production company | Tyrus Entertainment |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 34 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
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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]
The documentary was included on the 2006 and 2007 DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Wild Bunch.[6][7]