Film of the week 9/13-9/20: The Wild Bunch (1969)

Sam Peckinpah's 1969 classic The Wild Bunch is among the greatest westerns ever filmed. The film stars William Holden and Ernest Borgnine as leaders of a group of outlaws in the late 1910s. This film brings to mind a more recent film, The Wrestler. The premise of The Wrestler is to explore the hardships of an obsolete wrestling star from the 80s in today's world. The same idea plays into The Wild Bunch. A group of old outlaws from the days of bank robberies are forced to watch as their wild west rapidly becomes modern. As horses are replaced by cars, rumors float around about a flying machine up North. From this world, the last real group of desperadoes heads South, looking for one last adventure.