STRAW DOGS: PECKINPAH’S OBSESSION – Review by Pauline Kael
Sam Peckinpah, who is an artist, has, with Straw Dogs, made the first American film that is a fascist work of art.
STRAW DOGS: HAS MOVIE VIOLENCE GONE TOO FAR? – Review by Vincent Canby
It may be about time for movies to realize that they aren’t realistic. They are, for all the reality of their locales and of their actors and of their circumstances, only representations of reality and nothing more.
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.
THE WILD BUNCH: MAN AND MYTH – Time Magazine Review
"When the legend becomes fact," says the canny newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Sam Peckinpah is a filmmaker dedicated to telling truths and still preserving the legend of the American West. In feature films (Ride the High Country, Major Dundee) and [...]
SAM PECKINPAH: WHAT PRICE VIOLENCE?
On the set of Sam Peckinpah's movie "The Gateway". LIFE magazine , 11 August 1972
CONVOY (1978) – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews Sam Peckinpah's "Convoy"
SAM PECKINPAH: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1972)
A candid conversation with the screen's "Picasso of violence," controversial creator of "the wild bunch" and "straw dogs"