The Wild Bunch — reissue 08/12/25
Warner Bros.
Blu-ray (from 2007)
No, it’s not a new disc. This is also not exactly a disc review, but Warner’s reissue allows us to write about Sam Peckinpah’s film for the first time in years. We’re happy to recount the film’s twisted release history, and its path on home video. The point of course, is to encourage Warner Bros. to undertake a new remaster, perhaps reinstating some additional trims here and there. The title is still Gold in the WB vault, and few commercial titles as good as this one are begging to make the jump to 4K. Very little in it dates — we even love cameraman Lucien Ballard’s liberal use of the zoom lens. This time Sam ‘did it right’ as he never quite did again. On Blu-ray from Warner Bros..
08/12/25