Sam Peckinpah

It wasn't far from Robbins's scorn to Monty Python's ruthless lampoon, in which a party of tennis-playing toffs are slaughtered in a Sam Peckinpah bloodbath. "But Monty Python made that sketch after 20 years of tawdry revivals," says...

In this article: Julian Slade, West End, Monty Python, Jerome Robbins, Cameron Mackintosh, London, Britain, and Unemployment

The John Woo who made that movie seemed spiritually broken and creatively spent-a shadow of the action maestro whose innovative Sam Peckinpah/Jean-Pierre Melville mash-ups, The Killer and Hard Boiled, had made an icon out of Chow Yun-Fat and...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Sun Quan, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Wei, Hard Boiled, and China

...(1978), an otherwise forgettable movie whose glorious exteriors make one mourn the western Willis might have photographed for, say, Sam Peckinpah. They could have called it "Ride the Higher Country. '' Willis's most celebrated shot is...

In this article: Gordon Willis, John Houseman, Lauren Bacall, Woody Allen, Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men, Oscar, Roger Corman, Zelig, and Annie Hall

...I explored Wurlitzer's debut novel, Nog (1969, re-released this year by Two Dollar Radio), and wound up creating a meditative essay on Sam Peckinpah, the death of the American frontier, Bob Dylan, and the stormy production of Peckinpah's 1973...

In this article: Rudy Wurlitzer, Quake, Nog, Bob Dylan, Zeitgeist, E mail, and DVD

...to understand the special glory of the medium. I've had a similar experience--for me, it was the first time I saw Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." But I'd love to hear if any of you had similar "gotcha" moments when a movie...

In this article: Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coen brothers, Los Angeles Times, Bill Murray, A Serious Man, University of Wisconsin, and The Wild Bunch

...I'm afraid to say, it seems to be only a matter of time before your group will be targeted. Think of it as like the final scene in Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia: Sooner or later, the gun will be pointed at you. Mark...

In this article: Congenital myasthenic syndrome, Muscle weakness, UK, Best interests, Oxygen, The Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, and Brain damage

...production was NYPD (1967-69); from then on, Melnick concentrated on producing feature films. His debut was highly controversial. Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) tells of how a man of reason (the initially mild-mannered and bespectacled...

In this article: MGM, Emmy awards, Buck Henry, Mel Brooks, Get Smart, New York City, Oscars, and High School of Performing Arts

...film, while directors like Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann were taking it in bitter new directions. "Ride the High Country," Sam Peckinpah's elegiac work from 1962-screening at BAM on Oct. 28 in a New York Film Critics Circle series-is a...

In this article: Ride the High Country, Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, Lucien Ballard, Shane, Fred Zinnemann, Jane Mayer, and Joel McCrea

..."Death of a Salesman." Mr. Melnick shared his Emmys with producing partner David Susskind. The first film Mr. Melnick produced was Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 drama "Straw Dogs." The next year, Mr. Melnick joined MGM, and he rose to head...

In this article: Steve Martin, Straw Dogs, Get Smart, David Susskind, Neil Simon, MGM, Harry Hamlin, Roxanne, and All That Jazz

James Hamilton had one achievement that stood out on his resume: He was a screenwriter on the 1977 Sam Peckinpah movie "Cross of Iron." It was good for a lot of stories, but only one part of the longtime...

In this article: Mill Valley, Cross of Iron, San Francisco State, Studs Terkel, and Straw Dogs