Some News on 2005 Peckinpah Releases
01-18-05, 08:27 PM
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Some News on 2005 Peckinpah Releases
A poster over on Mobius recently posted some news on some of the Peckinpah releases due this year. He exerpted an article from Film Score Monthly:
FILM SCORE FRIDAY 1/14/05
By Scott Bettencourt
This February marks the 80th anniversary of Sam Peckinpah's birth, and this spring Columbia will be releasing a recently discovered longer cut of his dark 1965 Civil War-era adventure MAJOR DUNDEE, the film he directed between his classics Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch, to selected theaters. What is most unusual about this re-release is that Columbia has commissioned an entirely new score, by a selected-but-not-yet-named composer (an unknown), to replace the film's original Daniele Amfitheatrof score (which was reportedly hated by Peckinpah, who was not involved in the film's final cut). The film's upcoming DVD release will feature the new score as well as the Amfitheatrof score on separate audio tracks.
Peckinpah expert Nick Redman is preparing a multi-box DVD set of Peckinpah films to be released later this year. One of the highlights for film music fans will be the DVD of THE GETAWAY, which is expected to feature the film's rejected Jerry Fielding score isolated on a separate audio track, spotted exactly as Fielding intended. The supplementary material will include one sequence from the film with Fielding's music mixed back in, and a documentary on Fielding's collaboration with Peckinpah and the rejection of the Getaway score, featuring interviews with Fielding's wife and daughter.
If this isn't enough for Peckinpah fans, Redman and film editor Paul Seydor (Cobb, Tin Cup) will follow up their Oscar nominated documentary The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage with A Simple Adventure Story: Sam Peckinpah, Mexico and The Wild Bunch, a new documentary which will feature newly discovered color outtake footage from The Wild Bunch as well as new footage exploring the Mexican locations where the film was shot. The documentary will premiere at the American Cinematheque in late February and also show at the Cannes Film Festival. Also at Cannes will be a new cut of Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
So, we don't have dates yet, but it looks like a new version of THE GETAWAY will be part of Warner's boxset and we'll be getting a new cut of PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. I wonder if the new score for MAJOR DUNDEE will include the "Major Dundee March". But at least we'll be getting both scores.
These are my most highly anticiapted releases of the new year. I can't wait for them to come out!
FILM SCORE FRIDAY 1/14/05
By Scott Bettencourt
This February marks the 80th anniversary of Sam Peckinpah's birth, and this spring Columbia will be releasing a recently discovered longer cut of his dark 1965 Civil War-era adventure MAJOR DUNDEE, the film he directed between his classics Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch, to selected theaters. What is most unusual about this re-release is that Columbia has commissioned an entirely new score, by a selected-but-not-yet-named composer (an unknown), to replace the film's original Daniele Amfitheatrof score (which was reportedly hated by Peckinpah, who was not involved in the film's final cut). The film's upcoming DVD release will feature the new score as well as the Amfitheatrof score on separate audio tracks.
Peckinpah expert Nick Redman is preparing a multi-box DVD set of Peckinpah films to be released later this year. One of the highlights for film music fans will be the DVD of THE GETAWAY, which is expected to feature the film's rejected Jerry Fielding score isolated on a separate audio track, spotted exactly as Fielding intended. The supplementary material will include one sequence from the film with Fielding's music mixed back in, and a documentary on Fielding's collaboration with Peckinpah and the rejection of the Getaway score, featuring interviews with Fielding's wife and daughter.
If this isn't enough for Peckinpah fans, Redman and film editor Paul Seydor (Cobb, Tin Cup) will follow up their Oscar nominated documentary The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage with A Simple Adventure Story: Sam Peckinpah, Mexico and The Wild Bunch, a new documentary which will feature newly discovered color outtake footage from The Wild Bunch as well as new footage exploring the Mexican locations where the film was shot. The documentary will premiere at the American Cinematheque in late February and also show at the Cannes Film Festival. Also at Cannes will be a new cut of Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
So, we don't have dates yet, but it looks like a new version of THE GETAWAY will be part of Warner's boxset and we'll be getting a new cut of PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. I wonder if the new score for MAJOR DUNDEE will include the "Major Dundee March". But at least we'll be getting both scores.
These are my most highly anticiapted releases of the new year. I can't wait for them to come out!
01-18-05, 09:24 PM
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01-18-05, 09:39 PM
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I guess this version is gonna have all the TV scenes in it. And I actually perfer the version that doesn't have the lyrics being sung to "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", but just the melody instead.
I guess this version is gonna have all the TV scenes in it. And I actually perfer the version that doesn't have the lyrics being sung to "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", but just the melody instead.
01-19-05, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by JEStinson3
I want a non-flipper Wild Bunch. When is this gonna happen?
01-19-05, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JesseCuster
No joke. The Wild Bunch is a film just crying out for a serious Criterion treatment. Has it ever had a definitive edition put out in any format?
01-19-05, 06:53 PM
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Last I heard, a 2-Disk SE was being planned for release in 2005.. or has this changed?
01-24-05, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by DrGerbil
Last I heard, a 2-Disk SE was being planned for release in 2005.. or has this changed?
03-21-05, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Geofferson
DVDAnswers is reporting that a 136-minute extended cut of Major Dundee is going to be released on May 31st.
04-15-05, 04:22 PM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4601413
Review of the Major Dundee rerelease in select theaters. LA and NY I assume.
Review of the Major Dundee rerelease in select theaters. LA and NY I assume.
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Originally Posted by MBoyd
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4601413
Review of the Major Dundee rerelease in select theaters. LA and NY I assume.
Review of the Major Dundee rerelease in select theaters. LA and NY I assume.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/mo...070&oref=login
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The earliest news of more Peckinpah was work on a boxset. What I'm most concerned about is things are getting released at different times, so a boxset is being kept on the sly so buying one more titles will leave me with multiple copies
if I buy them as they care coming out. I've been holding out on Alfredo Garcia because of this, as well as the barebones Wild Bunch. Major Dundee is just more fuel to the fire. With Warners you never know if it's going to be all previously released titles with just one or 2 new ones, or all completely new stuff.
if I buy them as they care coming out. I've been holding out on Alfredo Garcia because of this, as well as the barebones Wild Bunch. Major Dundee is just more fuel to the fire. With Warners you never know if it's going to be all previously released titles with just one or 2 new ones, or all completely new stuff.
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Originally Posted by uhftv
The earliest news of more Peckinpah was work on a boxset. What I'm most concerned about is things are getting released at different times, so a boxset is being kept on the sly so buying one more titles will leave me with multiple copies
if I buy them as they care coming out. I've been holding out on Alfredo Garcia because of this, as well as the barebones Wild Bunch. Major Dundee is just more fuel to the fire. With Warners you never know if it's going to be all previously released titles with just one or 2 new ones, or all completely new stuff.
if I buy them as they care coming out. I've been holding out on Alfredo Garcia because of this, as well as the barebones Wild Bunch. Major Dundee is just more fuel to the fire. With Warners you never know if it's going to be all previously released titles with just one or 2 new ones, or all completely new stuff.