Arrow’s release is now the definitive edition of Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 near-masterpiece.
Stratton goes beyond the production of Sam Peckinpah’s film, on to its impact and reception and legacy.
Peckinpah’s underrated film receives a good transfer, with an audio commentary that formidably analyzes the filmmaker’s autumnal art.
One of the most ambiguous, neurotic, and disturbing of all American films receives a revelatory new restoration.
The real test of a festival must, at some point, come down to the strength of its new titles.
The red-headed stepchild of Sam Peckinpah’s career is accorded an uneven A/V clean-up by Kino Lorber.
This troubled autobiography in genre film’s clothing receives an uneven transfer that’s aesthetically, even spiritually, apropos.
The Visitor is one of its era’s most indefinable, inconceivably progressive pieces of cinematic nonsense.
As delightful as William Castle’s movies are in any venue, you lose out on one of their most appealing aspects when you watch them in the atomized privacy of your home theater.
Twilight Time’s high-def restorative efforts prove that Major Dundee is anything but minor Peckinpah.
Films about the not-so-great outdoors pervade this year’s festival.
Fox gives Peckinpah’s ferocious near-masterpiece a killer visual/audio upgrade.
Much of the novel’s prose reads like a screenplay, with tedious descriptions of props, settings, and physical actions.
The older 3:10 to Yuma harkens back to a time when westerns were westerns, with their own assumed moral systems and thematic boilerplate.
Straw Dogs is about man’s quest to identify himself as masculine through the self-actualizing power of violence.
The richness of Deadwood puts every other TV drama to shame.
Cross of Iron would almost seem a proper mea culpa by Sam Peckinpah for his controversial career.
I don’t know whether Peckinpah is saying that war is hell or that war is gay. Either way, it’s all about the boys.
No explanation required. Here are five, off the top of my head, that really hit me.
Sam Peckinpah’s nasty masterpiece is the best Head available on DVD.