Sam Peckinpah: Playboy Interview (1972)
17/08/2020
A candid conversation with the screen’s “Picasso of violence,” controversial creator of “the wild bunch” and “straw dogs”
Menu
Sam Peckinpah
THE KILLER ELITE – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
08/08/2020
Peckinpah’s “The Killer Elite” is intensely, claustrophobically exciting, with combat scenes of martial-arts teams photographed in slow motion and then edited in such brief cuts that the fighting is nightmarishly concentrated—almost subliminal.
Straw Dogs: Peckinpah’s Obsession – Review by Pauline Kael
18/01/2018
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
29/12/2017
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 (1971) – Review by David Denby
28/12/2017
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
19/08/2017
“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
SAM PECKINPAH: WHAT PRICE VIOLENCE?
18/08/2017
On the set of Sam Peckinpah’s movie “The Gateway”. LIFE magazine , 11 August 1972