Sam Peckinpah

“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

Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Screenwriting 101

“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

Cinematography, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101

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

Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting

Sam Peckinpah’s original version of the screenplay for ‘One-Eyed Jacks,’ Marlon Brando’s only directorial effort

Cinematography, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101

‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’: The Story of the Great Sam Peckinpah’s Most Personal Film

Cinematography, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101

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

Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting

‘Straw Dogs’: Peckinpah’s Most Controversial Blade Hasn’t Lost Any of Its Sharpness Over the Years

Editing, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101

Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ is savage poetry; one of the great masterpieces of world cinema

Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting

Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’ finally got the respect it deserved

Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting

‘The Getaway’ remains one of the highlights that Sam Peckinpah’s rich career has to offer

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