The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage explained

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Director:	Paul Seydor
Producer:	Nick Redman Paul Seydor
Studio:	Tyrus Entertainment
Narrator:	Nick Redman
Editing:	Paul Seydor
Distributor:	Warner Bros.
Runtime:	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.

Cast

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

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

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

External links

• • The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage on MUBI
• Review

Notes and References

1. New Documentary Reviewed: Seydor on Peckinpah . Gentner . Richard . The Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter . 17 . 5 . November–December 1996 . January 23, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923233815/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/newsletter/wldbnch.html . September 23, 2015 .
2. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/526506/Wild-Bunch-An-Album-in-Montage-The/ TCM.com
3. News: Sragow . Michael . The Wild Bunch . Salon.com . October 20, 2000 .
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7NOQafoio "Breathing Lessons" winning Best Documentary Short - Oscars on YouTube
5. https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1997 1997|Oscars.org
6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225082112 The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) - WorldCat.org
7. https://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-Bunch-Blu-ray/dp/B000UL61BG Amazon.com: The Wild Bunch (Blu-ray)