WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING
Sam Peckinpah's
THE WILD BUNCH
(USA | 1969 | 145 mins | R16 violence)
Wednesday 16 July, 7.30PM, University of Otago’s Castle 1 Lecture Theatre**
Aging outlaws go out in a blaze of glory in Peckinpah’s elegiac film about the last days of the Wild West. Still the brutal benchmark for action cinema, influencing countless imitators.
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| “From the opening sequence, in which a circle of laughing children poke at a scorpion writhing in a sea of ants, to the infamous blood-spurting finale, Peckinpah completely rewrites John Ford’s Western mythology... The flight into Mexico, where they virtually embrace their death at the hands of double-crossing general Fernandez and his rabble army, is a nihilistic acknowledgment of the men’s anachronistic status” (Nigel Floyd, Time Out)
FURTHER REVIEW
"The film’s nihilist streak... invests it with a spitting, yowling nastiness both formative and alien to the current cinema landscape of blandly gritty antiheroes. Peckinpah’s senseless bloodshed foregrounded its own senselessness to comment on a time losing touch with its humanity; that we now think of this period as the “good old days” indicates just how far we’ve all fallen" (Charles Bramesco, The Guardian).
Finally, watch Ernest Borgnine on Robert Ryan in The Wild Bunch.
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- you can also join at the OUSA office reception at the University of Otago (cash only).
Alternatively, you can purchase a Three-Film sampler ($25), which can be also be shared to bring two friends to one screening. The sampler does not expire and can be used over multiple years.
Membership includes generous discounts at Rialto Cinemas (from Monday to Friday) and the 2025 Dunedin Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival; and FREE entry to the 2025 screenings of all other affiliated New Zealand Film Societies. Each member is entitled to ONE FREE GUEST ADMISSION to a single screening.
**To get to the Castle 1 Theatre: walk up between the University of Otago’s Arts building (Burns) and Information Services building (Central Library), on Albany Street.
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