And now the late arrivals at the Austin Film-makers Ball
The day after I leave Austin, ‘Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia’ plays the Alamo thanks to the Badass Digest. Damn. [Sam] Peckinpah gets a lot of love for The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs and The Getaway – and rightfully so. But Alfredo Garcia holds a special place in the Peckinpah canon. It’s his grimiest, sickest, weirdest movie but also his most personal. It’s about how Bennie, an ex-pat American living in Mexico, learns that a local crimelord wants the head of the gigolo who knocked up his daughter. The reward: a cool million. But Bennie has some
