Director Robert Rodriguez's astonishing 'Mexico Trilogy' (El Mariachi, Desperado & Once Upon a Time in Mexico) now available in a limited edition set!

A Tex-Mex tornado of fire and fury, writer-director Robert Rodriguez's astonishing 'Mexico Trilogy' broke fresh new ground in American independent and action cinema, catapulting the filmmaker and his largely Hispanic cast and crew into the Hollywood stratosphere.

Rodriguez's ingenious 1993 debut El Mariachi (infamously filmed for only $7000) sees a naive young musician entering a godforsaken border town and finding himself in the middle of a deadly case of mistaken identity. The major studio follow-up Desperado sees Antonio Banderas take up the mantle of the mysterious Mariachi, stalking the Mexican underworld with enough bullets up his sleeves for every bandito in his path. Finally, 2003's Once Upon a Time in Mexico sees Rodriguez use every cutting-edge technological innovation in his arsenal to bring the trilogy's explosive conclusion to the screen, as the Mariachi finds himself in the center of a bloody war for the soul of Mexico itself.

Fun, fast and full of invention and inspiration, this deadly trio cemented Robert Rodriguez's reputation as an action auteur worth following, and are accompanied here by insightful interviews with the director and his crew of collaborators.

Bonus Materials

• SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentations of all three films
• Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper
• DISC 1 - EL MARIACHI
• Original lossless 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, an interview with Rodriguez
• The Original Mariachi, an interview with producer/star Carlos Gallardo
• The Music of ‘El Mariachi’, a featurette on the music in the film, featuring 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 short film by Rodriguez
• Theatrical trailer and TV spot
• DISC 2 - DESPERADO
• 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Sony Pictures
• Original lossless stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Audio commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
• Lean and Mean, an interview with Rodriguez
• Shoot Like Crazy, an interview with producer Bill Borden
• Kill Count, an interview with stunt coordinator Steve Davison
• Lock and Load, an interview with special effects coordinator Bob Shelley
• Game Changer, an 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 3 - ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
• Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Commentary by writer-director Robert Rodriguez
• The Revolution Will Be Digitized, an interview with Rodriguez
• Troublemakin’, an interview with visual effects editor Ethan Maniquis
• Eight deleted scenes, with optional 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 in which Rodriguez shows you how to cook 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 film’s special effects
• Theatrical trailers

Cast & Crew

•       Antonio Banderas
•       Carlos Gallardo
•       Carlos Gómez
•       Cheech Marin
•       Consuelo Gómez
•       Danny Trejo
•       Enrique Iglesias
•       Eva Mendes
•       Joaquim de Almeida
•       Johnny Depp
•       Mickey Rourke
•       Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
•       Peter Marquardt
•       Quentin Tarantino
•       Rubén Blades
•       Salma Hayek
•       Steve Buscemi
•       Tito Larriva
•       Virgen Delgado
•       Willem Dafoe

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Additional Details

Label: Arrow Video

Genre: Action/Adventure

Run Time: 287 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/25/25

UPC: 760137174349