Our new 4K edition of PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973) enters the collection in July! 🤠criterion.com/films/29028-pa… Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality.
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973)—presented here for the first time in three separate versions—stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.
@Criterion @gknout This film deserves all the care considering how badly the studio treated it and Peckinpah.
@Criterion How come the preview cut is 2K? That's the best version by far!
@Criterion This is a must have for me, because it was filmed in my hometown #Durango
@Criterion He befriends Alias, an outlaw, a wander by trade. Alias knows how to pick and choose and how to throw the blade.
@Criterion Of these 3 cuts of Pat Garrett, I understand 1 is the original theatrical release, which is a travesty. Is the Peckinpah “preview” cut the one shown surreptitiously at USC many years after Sam’s passing? If not, has this “preview” cut been released before? What is “50th” cut?
@Criterion BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA next! Please!
@Criterion The 50th Anniversary Release is a reworking by Paul Seydor of his 2005 version, which was almost universally disliked & panned. Likewise the 73 Theatrical cut was almost universally hated. The Turner cut is the one most people wanted, it's hugely disappointing it's not included.