Word: peckinpah
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...some are trying to do that now, and film history is rich with examples where obsessive directors have been lauded for their bizarre on-set behavior and self-importance. Think of Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Sam Peckinpah, Erich Stroheim, and other filmmakers who at one point or another made films that became more about their personal psychoses than the films’ topics, which were things like greed, marital breakdown, the fallibility of nature, or cinema history. Given this list, perhaps the obsessive behavior is appropriate. Or perhaps they are (or were...
...deep, satanic laugh and toothy, knowing grin; of a heart attack; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Coburn was famous for playing macho sidekicks in Westerns and action films, memorably as the laconic, deceptively easygoing knife thrower Britt in The Magnificent Seven, an army scout in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee and a prisoner of war in the World War II drama The Great Escape. The wry actor gained star stature in the late 1960s as the lead in the James Bond spoofs Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. In 1998, coming back from a bout with rheumatoid...
...upcoming weeks, Silva, who is a lecturer on history and literature, will begin writing the script to a remake of the 1974 Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in which Del Toro will star...
...original script, written by Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) and Gordon Dawson, the protagonist is a white American in Mexico City. The film is usually described as a cult classic. “It’s very violent. It’s also tragic in its own way,” Silva says. “Some have called it a strange, weird masterpiece.” In his version of the masterpiece, Silva plans to make the protagonist a Chicano—a Mexican-American. “He becomes a man of two worlds...
...utterly infectious-each gunshot is like a jolt of adrenaline. The special-effects laden spectacle of Spy Kids, on the other hand, cannot fall back on the natural buzz of stylish violence (and those who think it doesn't exist should become better acquainted with the work of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo) and appears that much more clunky as a result. Trying to strike that elusive storytelling pitch that appeals to both children and adults, Rodriguez's writing becomes more nakedly labored and problematic. The story stumbles through the usual childhood cliches (Juni is picked on at school; Carmen...