Movies
The American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre on Sunday screens Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 western, “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” starring Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and Bob Dylan.
March 14, 2015
A 10-day tribute honors the indelible work of director Sam Peckinpah.
May 2, 2004
Books
The movies, which many of us grew up regarding as the co-literature of the age, have sunk to an abysmal low unimaginable only a few years ago.
Dec. 8, 1991
Sam Peckinpah’s Legendary Westerns Collection (Warner Home Video, $60 for the set; $20 to $27 each) THE mastery of the controversial, iconoclastic director is represented in this collection of four of his westerns: 1962’s “Ride the High Country,” 1969’s “The Wild Bunch,” 1970’s “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and 1973’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.”
Jan. 8, 2006
A different bounce on Grover Lewis’ review of “Bloody Sam” (by Grover Lewis; Dec. 8): It may well be that defiant director Sam Peckinpah earned his renegade reputation all by himself.
Dec. 29, 1991
The heroes of the old American West lived by a simple moral code, at least in the movies.
Feb. 26, 2019
Mention iconoclastic director Sam Peckinpah’s name and immediately the bloody, violent images of “The Wild Bunch” come to mind.
May 6, 2004
I want to commend Jane Galbraith for her excellent article about the MPAA re-rating of Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” (“Sam Peckinpah Meets the Mild Bunch,” March 14).
March 28, 1993
As someone who has seen Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” more than 50 times (including several screenings of the director’s personal cut with Peckinpah himself), I must first say that the current sound and fury being generated by Warner Bros.’ attempt to re-release the film is only fitting (Film Clips, March 14).
March 21, 1993
Producer-writer-director David E.
April 28, 2006