Robert Rodriguez’s traditional El Mariachi triogy can be popping out in a brand new set from Arrow Video (with one small catch).
Like lots of you studying this, I’ve a comfortable spot for Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico trilogy. The three movies centred round a guitar-playing mariachi (first performed by Carlos Gallardo, then by Antonio Banderas) who turns into a killer after a case of mistaken identification. The three movies put Rodriguez on the map as some of the thrilling administrators of his era, and the story of how he turned a $7000 motion film made for Mexican residence video right into a worldwide smash is famous (as he documented himself within the traditional e book “Rebel Without a Crew”).
Now, Rodriguez’s free trilogy, which consists of El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, are coming to Arrow Video in a particular features-laden field set which incorporates commentaries, new interviews, deleted scenes and extra. However, the catch is that of the three movies, solely Desperado is getting a 4K disc.
Why?
Well, right here’s the factor – the weather don’t actually exist to place the opposite movies on 4K disc. El Mariachi was shot on 16mm movie for $7K, so a 1080p HD switch is about pretty much as good because it will get for that film. Once Upon a Time in Mexico, regardless of having the largest price range, was an early film shot on HD digital, which means the utmost decision is 1080p. It must bear a significant restoration (or revisionist switch) to look good on this format (that is the dilemma possible dealing with Sony and Danny Boyle with 28 Days Later). Desperado was the one one shot on 35mm movie, so it has the most effective components and can possible look wonderful in 4K.
Whatever the case, the set is loaded with extras, as revealed by our buddies over at Arrow Video. Check em’ out:
DISC 1 – EL MARIACHI (BLU-RAY)
- Original uncompressed Latin-American Spanish stereo audio, plus an English dub in lossless stereo
- Optional English subtitles, plus English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
- Big Vision Low Budget, a newly filmed interview with Rodriguez
- The Original Mariachi, a newly filmed interview with producer/star Carlos Gallardo
- The Music of ‘El Mariachi’, a newly produced featurette on the music within the movie, that includes interviews with composers Eric Guthrie, Chris Knudson, Alvaro Rodriguez and Marc Trujillo
- Ten Minute Film School, an archive featurette produced and narrated by Rodriguez
- Bedhead, a 1991 brief movie by Rodriguez
- Theatrical trailer and TV spot
DISCS 2 & 3 – DESPERADO (BLU-RAY / 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
- New 4K restoration from the unique digicam unfavorable by Sony Pictures
- Original uncompressed stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 encompass audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Audio commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
- Lean and Mean, a newly filmed interview with Rodriguez
- Shoot Like Crazy, a newly filmed interview with producer Bill Borden
- Kill Count, a newly filmed interview with stunt coordinator Steve Davison
- Lock and Load, a newly filmed interview with particular results coordinator Bob Shelley
- Game Changer, a newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption)
- Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout, an archive featurette narrated by Rodriguez
- Textless opening (“Morena de mi Corazón”)
- Theatrical trailers
DISC 4 – ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (BLU-RAY)
- Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 encompass and a pair of.0 stereo audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
- The Revolution Will Be Digitized, a newly filmed interview with Rodriguez
- Troublemaking, a newly filmed interview with visible results editor Ethan Maniquis
- Eight deleted scenes, with non-compulsory commentary by Rodriguez
- Ten Minute Flick School, an archive featurette narrated by Rodriguez
- Inside Troublemaker Studios, an archive featurette on Rodriguez’s studio in Austin
- Ten Minute Cooking School, an archive featurette wherein Rodriguez exhibits you find out how to cook dinner Puerco Pibil
- Film is Dead: An Evening with Robert Rodriguez, a presentation by the director given in 2003
- The Anti-Hero’s Journey, an archive featurette on the arc of the Mariachi
- The Good, the Bad and the Bloody: Inside KNB FX, an archive featurette on the movie’s particular results
- Theatrical trailers
Will you be choosing up the Mexico trilogy? Let us know within the feedback! Here’s a take a look at the set, which streets on August twenty seventh within the US and Canada.
