Sam Peckinpah

UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV

2013-03-15 05:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...

David Fincher, Cuba's female filmmakers among weekend highlights

2013-03-07 06:00:00

Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...

Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped

2013-02-15 08:00:00

I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...

A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence

2013-02-15 13:05:00

Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...

Angus Scrimm, ‘Phantasm’s’ Tall Man, still a striking presence

2013-01-25 17:53:19

Ernest Borgnine dies at 95; won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom

2012-07-09 00:00:00

Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here to Eternity." But two years later came the title role...

PASSINGS: R.G. Armstrong, Norman Alden, Ted Hinshaw, Neil Reed

2012-08-01 00:00:00

R.G. Armstrong Actor a favorite of Peckinpah R.G. Armstrong, 95, a veteran character actor who started his career in the 1950s on Broadway, segued to television, then solidified his standing as a favorite of filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Warren Beatty,...

Are rednecks in 'Straw Dogs' an insult to Mississippi?

2011-09-19 16:32:46

Westerns are back in the TV saddle

2011-12-05 00:00:00

It's still music to Dan Wallin's ears

2012-01-01 00:00:00

Just before noon on a clear fall day, the Newman stage on the 20th Century Fox lot is alive with bright lights, hovering microphones and a full 105-piece orchestra. It's one of the final scoring sessions for "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,"...

Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week

2012-01-04 16:37:30

Around Town: Steve McQueen, the King of Cool, rides again

2012-03-29 16:39:03

Director Sam Peckinpah turned up the volume even more to underscore the physical and psychological toll of violence. The ultra-graphic gunfights -- especially the finale involving the Wild Bunch and Mexican soldiers -- and scenes of torture set a new standard for savagery in films.

2013-02-14 17:39:13

R; 1:49 running time Writer-director Rod Lurie's bird-brained remake of "Straw Dogs" doesn't work on its own terms, and it can't hold a candle to the unruly, unstable merits of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original. It's miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary.

2011-09-15 09:06:21

Screen Gems is moving ahead with a reboot of Sam Peckinpah 's "Straw Dogs."

2009-09-07 15:39:44