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May 21, 2002 · Peckinpah, Sam. b. David Samuel Peckinpah. b. February 21, 1925, Fresno, California. d. December 28, 1984, Los Angeles. Peckinpah shot the dream going, gone rotten, machines and money choking the garden, those hard-won gatherings at the river mutating into cold centers of commerce. Chinese boxes of powder and paranoia.
Dec 29, 1984 · Sam Peckinpah, the maverick movie director best known for his westerns and graphic uses of violence on film, died yesterday at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb ...
Sam Peckinpah. "Sam Peckinpah is widely regarded as a director who made significant innovations in the portrayal of violence in cinema in the 1960s. A volatile alcoholic, Peckinpah was the archetype of the determined film artist trying to exist within a commercial system that labeled him l’enfant terrible. He had a distinguished beginning in ...
Jul 31, 2006 · Sam Peckinpah is the only filmmaker of the sound era who has fundamentally altered the language of cinema. It is more than likely, even inevitable, that, as the decades pass and his contemporaries enter obscurity, he will remain the most terrifying presence in modern film.
Biografie (1) "The end of a picture is always an end of a life." Jeden z nejznámějších režisérů sedmdesátých let, který ve svých filmech jasně vylíčil násilí a akci, jehož filmoví hrdinové byli vesměs samotáři toužící být jakkoliv oceněni, jehož kontroverzní filmy se zabývali násilím, korupcí a spory mezi hodnotami a normami takový byl David Samuel „Sam“ Peckinpah, rodák z Kalifornie, z města Fresno, kde vystudoval střední a vysokou školu, za kterou ...
Christened David Samuel (b. 1925–d. 1984), Sam Peckinpah is one of the most important film directors to rise to prominence after the Second World War, best known for his six Western films plus several others outside the genre. Born into a family of homesteaders, ranchers, and entrepreneurs who crossed the Great Plains and settled in Northern ...
PECKINPAH, David Samuel ("Sam") ( b. 21 February 1925 in Fresno, California; d. 28 December 1984 in Inglewood, California), actor, television and motion picture scriptwriter, and film director whose 1969 film The Wild Bunch reflected the violence and social upheaval of the late 1960s.
