The Arrow Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

It's just in the 'sale' because it's out of print and they found a box of them in the warehouse during the last sale.

It says half of them are preorders. What's that all about?

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It says half of them are preorders. What's that all about?

They have a shit website I don't think they update the individual item pages after putting them up for pre-orders

[Susan Foreman]

*** 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: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [Limited Edition Blu-ray]

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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 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 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.

[J Harker]

Not sure where to put this but seeing as it was Arrow that posted it on Facebook I'll put it here. Might interest some, particularly if there's a cinema within a sensible distance.

From tomorrow Picturehouse cinemas launch a brand new film season - A Warning To The Curious: Ghost Stories At Christmas.

Find out more and book tickets here: http://bit.ly/2gjKNGu

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

What a pity as there are some fine films showing, none near me though. The majority down south.

[Justin101]

Ahh yes, I noticed that Blood on Satan's Claw was on in Liverpool tomorrow, I didn't know it was part of a season though.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

What a pity as there are some fine films showing, none near me though. The majority down south.

Same here. Nearest is Bath. Still a 2 hour round trip.

[plasterface]

I am going to event at the tyneside cinema Dec 9th which is showing christmas evil.

[mr 420]

I am loving that alternate Slugs artwork. I nearly bought it in HMV yesterday, but balked at the £17.99 that they were wanting for it.

[michal]

I have another guess what argento release may be it may be 2k transfer of bird with crystal plumage