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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (DVD)

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."

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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

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.3 x 5.25 inches; 0.01 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2221226
Director ‏ : ‎ Bruce Beresford
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dubbed, DTS Surround Sound
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ HBO Studios
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001FVECM
Writers ‏ : ‎ Larry Gelbart
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Jack Trommer

This is a good story about a little known event in our history.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2022

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I suppose there is a certain amount of added "Spin" to this story. Some of this story is truefull. I am not certain how much is "Spin". It is entertaining.

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maestra

High School Classroom Use?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2014

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I was about to begin teaching a unit about the Mexican Revolution in my Spanish class. My students, high school seniors, groaned when I announced the new topic. I was hoping that this movie would help them connect to the subject more. All of my students' parents have given permission for their kids to watch R rated movies with the reassurance that 1) the movie would be educational and relevant and 2) that I would skip scenes with nudity.
So I ordered this movie and previewed it. There were two scenes with a little adult content that I had to skip and I warned them that there was lots of violence (it WAS a Revolution, after all). None of my students objected, and the movie definitely peaked their interest in the topic! Of course I had discussion questions after each day's viewing.
This movie is a fascinating story of Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) who is making a movie focused on and starring Pancho Villa. Frank is torn between his morals and the commercial demands of the movie industry. John Reed (Matt Day) is a concerned journalist who becomes Frank's friend and, at times, conscience. Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) brilliantly plays the complex Mexican leader, equally loved and reviled.
I recommend this movie for other high school teachers with the caveats of permission slips and a little editing.

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Terrific, dark political satire

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2012

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From a funny, complex, dark and political script by Larry Gelbart, with a smashing lead
performance by Antonio Banderas, and lovely support by a number of actors (first and
foremost Alan Arkin cast way against type as a mercenary machine gunner, who makes
the part completely his own) - this is a terrific retelling of a hard to believe but true story
of the revolutionary Pancho Villa getting Hollywood to film his real life war as a way of
netting good publicity and public support.

I love the way the film effectively mixes the tragedy of war with comedy, an epic feel (amazing
considering it was made for HBO) with intimate character moments.

Not everything works. There's a love story that feels a little shoe-horned in, and some ideas get
repeated a few too many times, but this is a terrific satirical look at Hollywood, war, politics and
how they all dance together. And it's not afraid of making Pancho Villa a hero with a dark side,
a man of good intent but huge, unchecked ego as well.

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Accurate Portrayal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2021

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This movie follows history well. It seems to be accurate with them accounts we have. They don't get into all his background, which would make a movie itself. Villa was complicated man like we all are. He was good and he was evil. After all he was only human.

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Charles Peterson

Closely accurate and inspiring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2021

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This movie is truly inspiring and quite historically accurate. This man was a rare and true hero and kept to his word to a point of being the main cause of his death. It was a great depiction of a legend.

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Joan E. Drakos

Best acting Banderas ever did

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2004

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I watched this movie with my friend who was raised and still lives in Torreon, we loved it. My friend has many stories, told to him by his grandmother, who was from Chihuahua. Whether or not a movie by D.W Griffith ever existed, this one was certainly well done. Antonio Banderas did a wonderful job as Pancho Villa. Villa was the epitome of good and evil. He believed in Mexico and wanted to be the Robin Hood of his time, by the same token, it was too a heavy burden for any man to bear. If you don't see this movie you are cheating yourself out of a wonderful piece of history.

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j320007

Pancho Villa as himself

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2019

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I really love this movie, one of the best Pancho Villa performance I have ever seen, Antonio Banderas did a great job! I recommend this movie for every Mexican history teaching. Also amazing photography. One episode in Pancho Villas’s life that not to many know, he also made movies.

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Rodney M. Brown

Pancho Villa As Himself

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2013

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Antonio Banderas shows us yet another aspect of his total versatility. This wonderful actor can play anything from a gay depressed, and suicidal lover, to the heroic hero of Mexican history...He is the perfect selection for the movie about Hadrian the Roman emperor that John Bormann is directing. In this movie about a movie being made about Villa, Banderas pulls off a masterful characterization showing us the polarity of humanity and brutality that surely was a part of Mexico's history. He reveals that Villa was not a power mad leader, but only wanted to liberate his country for a time when a proper leader would come forth. Unfortunately the price for this was his assassination.
As is usually the case, liberation has it's price.

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skane1

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 24, 2016

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A great movie

malcolm brettell

Good film, a little bit different from other westerns

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 16, 2015

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Good film, a little bit different from other westerns !

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