Lucien Ballard

“It Ain’t Like It Used to Be. But It’ll Do:” How Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ Became Both a Eulogy for a Mythic Past and a Template for a New Kind of Action

The Wild Bunch poster art by Tony Stella   By Tim Pelan   We wanted to show violence in real…

4 years ago

‘Ride the High Country’: The Seed from which Peckinpah’s Revisionist Approach to the Western Genre Would Ultimately Grow

  By Koraljka Suton During the making of Ride the High Country in 1962, director Sam Peckinpah was ordered by…

5 years ago

‘The Ballad of Cable Hogue’: Sam Peckinpah’s Most Tender Fable of the Dying West

  By Sven Mikulec More than often unfairly placed into a single drawer and labeled as the master of misogynistic…

7 years ago