Sam Peckinpah

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  26 Sep 11

  "Killer Elite," "Red State," "Household X," More

  David Hudson

  Also: Toast, Machine Gun Preacher, Dolphin Tale, Puncture, Marriage, Italian Style and more.

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  17 Sep 11

  "Straw Dogs" x 2

  David Hudson

  Rod Lurie’s remake presents an opportunity to revisit the controversy kicked up by Peckinpah’s original.

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  25 Apr 10

  Pacino @ 70, Offscreen, More

  David Hudson

  Happy birthday, Al Pacino. He's 70 today, an occasion for a 60 Minutes sit-down with Katie Couric — and a few clips here. The Observer has a series going in which they ask a prominent filmmaker

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  23 Jan 09

  Now on DVD: "Ride the High Country" (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)

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  John Ford mourns the Western as a spectral soundstage (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Sam Peckinpah goes outside to revive it, or at least give it a decent Viking funeral. The geriatric lawman (Joel

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