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Director Sam Peckinpah was both hailed and condemned as a pioneer of brutal screen violence in the 1970s. After earning a reputation for writing and directing TV westerns, Sam Peckinpah began directing feature films in 1961. His first two westerns on the big screen were well-received, but Peckinpah did not get along with movie studios and for many years had difficulty finding work. He finally broke through with the 1969 release of The Wild Bunch (starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine ), a tale of aging outlaw antiheroes that shocked and thrilled audiences with its gritty, bloody intensity. He followed that with the brutal Straw Dogs (1971), starring Dustin Hoffman as a reclusive mathemetician who is forced to violence after his wife is raped. Peckinpah's reputation as a self-destructive maverick nearly overshadowed his body of work, which includes The Getaway (1973, starring Steve McQueen ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, with Bob Dylan and Cross of Iron (1977). (www.infoplease.com....inpah.html)
Flip Sam Peckinpah 's "Straw Dogs " into the VCR after dozing through Stanley Kubrick 's valedictory and it registers like the shock pads on failed hearts in medical shows - suddenly, you can feel again. (07/29/99 (www.salon.com....ate07.html)
A terrific Oscar-nominated documentary explains what Sam Peckinpah knew in his heart: It's not just blowing up a bridge, but the way you blow up a bridge, that counts. (10/20/2000 (www.salon.com....ate10.html)
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basinger rmkst13 This is a good movie. mecahill Lots of pump shotguns that can re-fire without being pumped? Juststand Comparison to original 1972 Sam Peckinpah 's version DabacTSP The Getaway , Desperado , True Romance . anyother's? osnelgro Why remake a classic into this? LaSeeman more Recommendations (www.imdb.com/title/tt0109890/)
Yet The Getaway , Sam Peckinpah 's visceral spray of blood-and-guts, works largely because of their obvious magnetism for each other. The two married shortly after filming, but broke up five years later when McQueen's real-life rebelliousness got out of han (www.infoplease.com....tine1.html)
Flip Sam Peckinpah 's "Straw Dogs " into the VCR after dozing through Stanley Kubrick 's valedictory and it registers like the shock pads on failed hearts in medical shows - suddenly, you can feel again. (www.salon.com....8/05/bird/)
Trivia: This film fell weeks behind schedule due to bad weather. When they could not film, director Sam Peckinpah and his cast and crew would drink. When the film did wrap production, the bar bill came to over $70,000. more (us.imdb.com/title/tt0065446/)
I'd like to see Jesse Johnson given a decent budget, and perhapssomeone else's material, at this point in his career his directorialskills far outweigh his scriptwriting ability. He has the ability tomake a full-blown Robert Rodriguez /Sam Peckinpah style film, but onlyif he acknowledges his own failings and works in collaboration withothers who can compliment his abilities (us.imdb.com/title/tt0396096/)
A terrific Oscar-nominated documentary explains what Sam Peckinpah knew in his heart: It's not just blowing up a bridge, but the way you blow up a bridge, that counts (www.salon.com....ild_bunch/)
I recall when John Stewart was dissed in favouritism of Bob Dylan 's soundtrack for the film "Pat Garret & Billy The Kid " by Sam Peckinpah . He was REALLY distressed over it & wrote one of my favourite songs, resulting from his that experience; "Durango". Give it a listen . He was a genuine great. (learning2share.blogspot.com....assed.html)
Flip Sam Peckinpah 's "Straw Dogs " into the VCR after dozing through Stanley Kubrick 's valedictory and it registers like the shock pads on failed hearts in medical shows - suddenly, you can feel again (dir.salon.com....y_kubrick/)
Running parallel to Magdalena's story is her outcast cousin Carlos (Jesse Garcia), who strikes up a relationship with the gay couple who have become landlords to his uncle, Tomas (played by the veteran Mexican actor Chalo Gonzalez, who got his start with Sam Peckinpah in "The Wild Bunch "). (blogs.sltrib.com....rchive.htm)
Richard Gere (Pat): Dylan in what Todd Haynes calls a "hippie Western" vignette. His Dylan composite is named Pat as his character is vaguely modelled from Dylan's appearance in Sam Peckinpah 's western, " Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid " (Dylan wrote music for and co-starred in the film) (theplaylist.blogspot.com....chive.html)
(1925 84). U.S. film director and screenwriter Sam Peckinpah was best known for directing Westerns, which he enlivened with spectacular scenes of violence (www.britannica.com....ly-the-Kid)
In the first 10 minutes, Sena lost my trust, although he did make one audience cheer. If this is as artful as violent movies get, Sam Peckinpah must be rolling over in his grave. He's just lucky he's not alive to see it. (www.salon.com....ample.html)
My next Green Cine rental is Sam Peckinpah 's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid . We'll see how that goes, but my mind is tending to wander a lot more than usual because I have so many things on my mind that I have to get done (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com....chive.html)
He and Kristofferson appeared together in three Sam Peckinpah westerns, "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid ," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" and "Convoy. (www.timesdaily.com....30340/1011)
Things have come to a pretty pass. In Sam Peckinpah 's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ," lawman Garrett James Coburn ), pressured by powerful interests to make the territory safe for Progress, is having to run down old comrades and cajole others into pointing the way - for instance, fellow lawman Colin Baker Slim Pickens ), who will lead him to Black Harris L.Q. Jones ), but only, bitterly, "if there's a piece o' change in it." So Garrett has put a bullet in Harris, who lies cursing him from a rooftop, and who himself put a bullet in Baker. As Harris cries to Garrett that they "shouldn't be doin' each other this-a-way" - while hitching himself into a better position to get a shot at Garrett - Baker walks off to sit by a stream at sunset , the astonished light of death in his eyes. His wife Katy Jurado looks on and weeps. The music, as you know, is Dylan 's " Knockin' on Heaven 's Door ." Peckinpah gives the finest moment of his achingly beautiful oeuvre to one of the Western's most beloved character actor (movies.msn.com....ews=208462)
This documentary's joltingly fresh footage of Peckinpah working at his peak conveys a rare, urgent feeling, a sort of turbulent hopefulness. It gets across Peckinpah's intuitive command of epic filmmaking and complex storytelling at a time when it looked as if the world could be his, before he was stigmatized with the grandstanding public persona of "Bloody Sam." Too many movies about moviemakers lack one essential ingredient: a keen account of how a director interacts with cast, writer, cinematographer, crew. But a corkscrew twist of fate enabled Seydor to create an uncanny 34-minute chronicle of precisely those relationships. "The Wild Bunch : An Album in Montage" is a magical salute to movie production on a grand scale. It's also a moving tribute to Peckinpah the committed artist - the 20-hour-a-day filmmaker (www.salon.com....ild_bunch/)
This post shall be brief, but I wanted to scribble a few thoughts on Sam Peckinpah 's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid while I have them. I can't really assess the film, since I still don't have the emotional attention span to really judge a feature-length film yet. It literally took me two weeks of stopping and starting to get through the movie, which in this case is the reworked 2005 version of the movie. Having never seen it before and having even less patience to try to get through a commentary track, I can't compare the two. It certainly didn't seem to be up to Peckinpah's best, but I'm not much of a judge right now. (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Few actors could express more with their eyes and their sheer physicality than Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah used that to great effect in Junior Bonner , his 1972 tale of family reunion and the rodeo in a small Arizona town. Admittedly, the movie is a lesser Peckinpah, but it does have much to offer in its simple tale of a man facing off with his nemesis, in this case a bull named Sunshine . McQueen stars as the title character, a fading, down on his luck rodeo star who drives back into Prescott, Ariz., home of his estranged parents (Robert Preston , Ida Lupino ) and his ambitious brother (Joe Don Baker ). The story is full of missed meetings and abandoned opportunities as Junior remains singularly focused on getting a second chance to beat Sunshine , owned by the rodeo's manager (Ben Johnson ). Along the way, the spare tale gives Peckinpah the opportunity to brush on some of his favorite themes such as the passage of one way of life into another as the Western town sees modern times and the counterculture subtly approach the outskirts of their town, only this time the setting is the New West as opposed to the Ol (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com....chive.html)
The final star is director Sam Peckinpah , who made a trulyrevolutionary film that not only pushed the art of film forward butholds up today as a cinematic experience. Time has been kind to thisfilm in a way it hasn't to other ground-breaking auteur moments fromthe same era, like MASH and Easy Rider . When The Wild Bunch cameout just as the 1960s were ending, people were truly shocked by theviolence and cruel characters. Today, of course, such things are socommon, and so mindlessly celebrated, that we find ourselves admiringwhat Peckinpah does for the surprisingly subtle and restrained way hegoes about presenting us with mayhem and carnage, and his refusal toglorify it, however exciting and entertaining the overall package. (us.imdb.com....ercomments)
Critics of Sam Peckinpah generally focus on the gore and violence in hisfilms. The Wild Bunch will probably not assuage these critics, but theviolence is not gratuitous. In fact, it is almost perfectly meshed in thisstory of a group of outlaws held together by some frail and some strongbonds who realize that their era and probably their lives are almost atan end. The story also deals with a man (Robert Ryan ) who was wounded andforced out of the gang, and who must now capture and kill his friend(William Holden ), with no option other than to succeed. This film is alsoabout loyalty, choice and honor, and is carried by surprisingly strongacting and writing. Yes the violence is on a large scale (which seems to becommonplace for films portraying the Mexican Revolution ), but it iscompletely in place with these characters and the era in which they live.This is not always a pleasant film to watch, but it is very rewarding, andmay be the best film Peckinpah made (us.imdb.com....ercomments)
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