The Wild Bunch + panel discussion

“The land had changed. They hadn’t.” 

The old and the new West clash as a gang of outlaws, led by an aging gunfighter, ride into a Texas border town with a plan to rob a local railroad office – only to find that they came too late and stayed too long. 

Sam Peckinpah cemented his status as a master, and reinventor, of the western genre with The Wild Bunch. Controversial on release for its realistic portrayals of violence and the murky morality at work in the film, The Wild Bunch is now remembered for its ground-breaking visual style which would change action cinema forever. 

Event/ This screening will be following by a panel discussion featuring Andy Willis (Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME) and Christina Newland (Writer, broadcaster and journalist).