The Chinese fest is marking the 100th birthday of Altman with "the largest retrospective of his works ever held in China" and of Peckinpah, "unique for his violent aesthetics," with 'The Wild Bunch.' ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of ...

The Sam Peckinpah film series, which began in October and continues on Thursdays through December 16, is now at the halfway point. The presentation has been a revelation because it has provided the ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 10th, 2006 - Buy A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country DVD ...

There's something special about the rush of being right when everyone around you is wrong. Granted, judging film is supposed to be subjective, but there's still such a thing as a consensus, and you ...

Recently I researched Sam on Wikipedia and read that during the filming of the film, Caan had turned Sam onto cocaine. Some time after the filming an intoxicated Sam dove into the pool of a hotel, but ...

Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging, testicle-punching brawl, and one whoppingly indifferent screenplay. After ...

The director of Paramount's new Stephen King adaptation talks with IndieWire about influences, scale, and the nerve-wracking process of showing King the script and finished film. “In the original ...

We’re taking a walk on the wild side this week with new picks from A.V. Club staff writers Matt Schimkowitz and Saloni Gajjar. Matt recommends the new 4K edition of a controversial revisionist Western ...

The '70s are a decade synonymous with the films of Spielberg, Coppola, and Scorsese as well as Pacino, De Niro, and Redford. This doesn't mean there weren't a ton of great films getting made by the ...