The Wild Bunch

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Paul & Amy light up 1969's rebellious Sam Peckinpah Western The Wild Bunch! They marvel at the stunts the volatile Peckinpah pulled, praise his inventive flashbacks, and debate the film's use of laughter. Plus: Director S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) talks about why The Wild Bunch is one of his favorite films. For The Apartment week, what was a time you helped someone in order to get ahead in life/at your job? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	It's 1969!
0:06.0	The movie.
0:07.0	The Wildbush.
0:08.0	The Wildbush.
0:28.0	Hey everybody, welcome to UnSpool.
0:30.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.0	And I'm Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where each week we watch one film from the AFI's
0:36.0	Top 100 Gages films with all-time lists to see if they really are as good as people say.
0:39.0	Do they hold up and how have they influenced the films we watch today?
0:43.0	Today's episode we're talking about Sam Peckinpost, The Wildbunch.
0:47.0	But before we get into that, we're going to go back in time a little bit and talk about the Charlie Chaplin film,
0:52.0	Gold Rush, which we talked about last week on the show.
0:55.0	And before we even get into that, I want to remind you to head on over to Pod Schwag,
1:00.0	where you can pick up an amazing poster that follows along with us as we count down our top 100.
1:05.0	And our top 100 films on the AFI list.
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1:26.0	Yeah, we got to invent something dumb.
1:28.0	I know.
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