Our patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Sam Peckinpah comes to an end with 1977’s Cross of Iron, an even grimmer than usual bloodbath pitting Nazis against Russians at the end of World War II.
Read MoreSam Peckinpah’s gloriously checkered career as a filmmaker ended with a convoluted but reasonably engaging adaptation of a Robert Ludlam novel featuring a murderer’s row of great character actors, including Burt Lancaster, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon and an exquisitely mustached Craig T. Nelson.
Read MoreIt’s the Sam Peckinpah movie with ninjas and shit!
Read MoreWarren Oates is positively majestic in this achingly beautiful and sad romance/character study from the great Sam Peckinpah.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to see all of Sam Peckinpah’s movies. We’re up to 1973’s troubled, mesmerizing Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which brought together a young Bob Dylan, a 36 year old Billy The Kid, a whole bunch of dead chickens and James Coburn enjoying the simultaneous sexual services of four beautiful prostitutes.
Read MoreOne of you generous souls paid me to write about every Sam Peckinpah movie, including this brutal Jim Thompson adaptation written by a young Walter Hill and starring real-life lovers Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.
Read MoreOur ongoing, patron-funded exploration of the films of Sam Peckinpah reaches Bloody Sam’s problematic and deeply troubling 1971 provocation Straw Dogs.
Read MoreSam Peckinpah’s curious, curiously satisfying follow-up to The Wild Bunch is a strange, strangely fascinating combination of haunting elegy for the old west and Benny Hill-style wacky sex comedy
Read MoreA half century on, Sam Peckinpah’s incendiary 1969 masterpiece The Wild Bunch remains as magnificent and deeply troubling as ever.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about ALL of Sam Peckinpah’s movies, including 1965’s Major Dundee, a sort of dry run for The Wild Bunch starring Charlton Heston as an obsessed soldier out for redemption and vengeance.
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