LITTLE BIG MAN: AMERICANA
In Little Big Man, Arthur Penn uses the mode of comic elegy in order to sustain a reverent feeling for the American past without falling into sentimentality
STRAW DOGS: VIOLENCE, ONCE AGAIN – Review by David Denby
Although Peckinpah’s general attitudes turn out to be reactionary to the point of madness, he has never functioned better as a filmmaker: Straw Dogs is a hateful but very exciting movie.