Sam Peckinpah 'Passion and Poetry'
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Son of Sam Peckinpah
- Date of Birth: 21 February, 1925
- Place of Birth: Fresno, California, United States
- Biography: David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved his status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch. He became one of the major filmmakers of the 1970s, with his innovative and explicit depiction of action... Read more
Filmography
- Death Proof (2007)
- Ten Dead Men (2007)
- Running Scared (2006)
- Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
- Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986)
- The Osterman Weekend (1983)
- Jinxed! (1983)
- Un Pasota con corbata (1981)
- The Visitor (1979)
- Convoy (1978)
- Amore, piombo e furore (1978)
- Cross of Iron (1977)
News
Damn You Hollywood
rollingstone.com –
2009-10-01
First there was the hip-hop remake of Fame , now Hollywood is plotting a modernized version of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and a Rosemary's Baby reboot by Transformers practitioner Michael Bay! ... Full Article
Letters to the Editor
salon.com –
2009-05-21
No longer matters b/c another post is up already, but just for Internet posterity: Lynx, it seems to me that my Star Trek essay mightily pissed you off for some reason (it was much more a personal essay than a... ... Full Article
True Blood
politicalanimal@citypaper.com –
2009-03-25
OK, maybe you got your John Fords mixed up. Give or take a few hundred years, the American director and the Jacobean playwright have one thing in common: They both dabble in frontier justice. ... Full Article
If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. February 21st was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are: Hendrik Berlage, Dutch architect ( Amsterdam Stock Exchange ), was born on February... ... Full Article
Today is Saturday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2009 with 313 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. ... Full Article
Death and all of its strange highways and byways, is one of the central preoccupations in Wurlitzer's revisionist frontier saga.
popmatters.com –
2009-02-06
Zebulon Shook is a man "who settled the frontier, fought and lived with Indians and experienced unimaginable hardships." But by 1850 the world is changing; the once-lucrative fur trade is collapsing, taking with it "the last days of the free... ... Full Article