Wyrd War presents: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on 35mm
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Saturday, August 20, 2022, 7:30 pm
Hollywood Theatre
Hollywood District (Portland)
This is an in-person event
$8 - $10
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Wyrd War presents a rare 35mm screening of Sam Peckinpah’s nihilistic neo-western masterpiece BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974) for one night only!
A wealthy Mexican crime boss, played with toxic perfection by legendary actor Emilio Fernández, announces a one million dollar reward for the head of a former associate after discovering that he has impregnated his teenage daughter. This sets in motion a bloody cycle of greed and betrayal as opportunistic mercenaries race to claim the head of Alfredo Garcia, who may have already died in an automobile accident.
Warren Oates is stumbling hungover brilliance as Bennie, a down-and-out expat pianist managing a sleazy bar in Mexico City and hoping for one last big score. Isela Vega shimmers as Elita, Bennie’s occasional lover, who dreams of a better life while prostituting to make ends meet in a brutally male-dominated world. A sordid and unlikely "buddy movie," co-starring a decapitated head in a burlap sack swarming with flies, that must be experienced on the big screen!
One of the most transgressive and divisive films in Peckinpah’s violent oeuvre, this booze-fueled death trip through Mexico’s criminal underworld was one of the controversial director’s favorite films and the only film in his entire career that went to theaters exactly as he had intended without studio interference. Often considered a self-portrait of the director’s troubled life, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA is a bleak and deceptively poetic character study that has emerged as a cult favorite of 70s cinema.
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