Paul Seydor: The Wild Bunch: A Study in Montage - Screening and Lecture

Documentary filmmaker and scholar Paul Seydor will present and discuss his Academy Award-nominated film, “The Wild Bunch: A Study in Montage,” and the process of writing for documentaries. Cosponsored by Meteor Theater.

http://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/paul-seydor

The occasion for the creation of this documentary was the discovery of 72 minutes of silent black-and-white 16 mm film footage of Sam Peckinpah, director of The Wild Bunch (1969).

Paul Seydor is a film director and editor, best known for his work on White Men Can’t Jump, Tin Cup, Turner & Hooch, Cobb, The Day Reagan Was Shot (for which he won the American Cinema Editors award), Dark Blue, and Hollywood Homicide. He has just finished The Young Messiah, a Focus Features release for 2016 directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh.