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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

starring: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Matt Day
directed by: Bruce Beresford

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783125381
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783125380
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 21287
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 07, 2003



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Editorial Review:

Description:
Antonio Banderas (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) delivers a powerful, larger-than-life performance as the title character of this incredible true story of how Mexican Revolutionary, Pancho Villa, allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. The adventure gets its start when early movie giants D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore) and Harry Aiken (Jim Broadbent), send a junior executive, Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal crossfire, Thayer's crew risks their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. After a string of dangerous exploits, narrow escapes and double-crosses worthy of a silent action short, Thayer and Villa make their movie, and 'The Life of General Villa' is released in the U.S. to popular acclaim. The film changes the public opinion in Villa's favor and proves that 'the lens is mightier than the sword.'

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio commentary with writer/executive producer Larry Gelbart
Featurette:Behind the scenes




Amazon.com:
A bizarre footnote from film history comes to life in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, an ambitious made-for-HBO opus that casts a jaundiced eye on Hollywood and politics. It's based on truth: in 1913, a movie crew went to Mexico to film general Pancho Villa, who was in the middle of leading a revolution in his country. Screenwriter Larry Gelbart and director Bruce Beresford use this mind-boggling situation to measure various Hollywood absurdities, but also to comment on the way showbiz has bent reality to fit convenient, crowd-pleasing expectations. Antonio Banderas gets a full head of steam going as Villa; he's so much better than anybody else in the movie, he underscores the weak performances of the other leads. You get the impression there were so many good anecdotes about this production, the movie can't quite find a focus. Still, for aficionados of movie lore, it's an absorbing look back at truly wild days. --Robert Horton



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE REAL, TRUE PANCHO VILLA??????


I read alot of westerns as well as watch western movies, so when I found this DVD on ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It meet my needs well
The movie meet my needs well. I was able to show my Spanish class a little of the history of a famous ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - balderdash, marketing film fiction as pseudo history
This is a B grade movie for HBO that is not even up to that networks standards. Disclaimer at the start ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - THE LOST REELS OF PANCHO VILLA
It is fair to say that we do not remember Noah for his drunkeness but for the Ark that he built to save ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Maybe Not History, but Good Fiction
When making this kind of historical fiction, too many people expect that it is going to be a documentary; ... Read More

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