Heaven's Gate
1981
Search results
David Samuel Peckinpah ( / ˈpɛkɪnˌpɑː /; [1] February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received an Academy Award nomination and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute 's top 100 list.
Sam Peckinpah. Writer: The Wild Bunch. "If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael.
Feb 10, 2024 · Sam Peckinpah, active in the 1960s and '70s, was a tough-as-nails director famous for his action movies and brutal Westerns. His most well-known works are the thriller Straw Dogs starring Dustin...
Sam Peckinpah. Writer: The Wild Bunch. "If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael.
Jun 6, 2024 · Sam Peckinpah (born February 21, 1925, Fresno, California, U.S.—died December 28, 1984, Inglewood, California) was an American motion-picture director and screenwriter who was known for ultraviolent but often lyrical films that explored issues of morality and identity.
Peckinpah has marshaled an army of stuntmen and special effects men for his battle scenes and for a tremendous scene of the destruction of a bridge. And the final bloodbath is the most effectively photographed battle since Orson Welles ' "Fallstaff."
1 day ago · Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades of mythology and rumor about its troubled production, contentious post-production, and the personal demons plaguing a director whose prickliness and battles with addiction have troubled considerations of his work and artistic legacy.
Mar 31, 2016 · With just fourteen theatrical feature films to his name, eight of which, including most of his touchpoints, came during the seven years 1969-1975, Peckinpah burned brightly and briefly and...
Sep 15, 2023 · What to Stream: Sam Peckinpah’s Obscure Mini-Masterpiece. Made for TV in 1963, “The Losers” is a thrillingly idiosyncratic display of cinematic artistry. By Richard Brody. September 15, 2023....
Jun 27, 2024 · What’s striking about that film, beyond how Costner draws from so many different genre touchstones — John Ford, Clint Eastwood and Sam Peckinpah, among others — is how he tries to honor old ...
