Word: peckinpah
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...Yorker and Esquire, but you will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility (in order to justify Peckinpah she evokes Brecht, for God's sake.) Or that Brackman had his adolescence in the late '50's, and never has recovered. After reading both of them, you'll have spent some pleasant moments with fine company. But the harsher might wonder what brought them to this business in the first place...
STRAW DOGS. Sam Peckinpah's harrowing portrait of heroism turned to animalism as a shy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) fights off thugs besieging his house...
Actor Brian Keith says: "Peckinpah is creative and original but not artistic. Not if 'artistic' means camera tricks, every shot a nostril shot. He wants honesty, reality as he sees it. He works on instincts. If something smells phony, he doesn't want...
Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...
...think will win?" Peckinpah asked his friend...