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GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 9: Performance: “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”

• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

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GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 9:

  • "The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
  • “Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
  • “The Osterman Weekend” (Sam Peckinpah, 1983)
  • “Bonnie and Clyde” (Arthur Penn, 1967)
  • “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
  • “The Parallax View” (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
  • “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  • “The Terminal Man” (Mike Hodges, 1974)
  • “Truck Turner” (Jonathan Kaplan, 1974)
  • “Death Wish” (Michael Winner, 1974)
  • “Gone in 60 Seconds” (H.B. Halicki, 1974)
  • “California Split” (Robert Altman, 1974)
  • “The Longest Yard” (Robert Aldrich, 1974)
  • “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hopper, 1974)
  • “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
  • “It’s Alive” (Larry Cohen, 1974)
  • “Phantom of the Paradise” (Brian De Palma, 1974)
  • “Cockfighter” (aka “Born to Kill”) (Monte Hellman, 1974)
  • “Two-Lane Blacktop” (Monte Hellman, 1971)

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