Serbian producer Milos Antic has acquired the film rights to late director Sam Peckinpah’s screenplay 'Castaway' from the Peckinpah Estate, and he is planning to produce a feature based on the script ...

How’s this for true grit? Famously combative, alcoholic, and drug-addled filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) is, as Chevy Chase might joke, “still dead” (he passed away in 1984 at the ...

The Sam Peckinpah film series, which began in October and continues on Thursdays through December 16, is now at the halfway point. The presentation has been a revelation because it has provided the ...

Kino Lorber Studio Classics will release director Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia with Warren Oates on Blu-ray on March 9th. Restored in 4K from the original camera ...

I’m on one of my periodic Sam Peckinpah benders. (“You call that a bender?” I can hear Sam sneer, as he gestures scornfully to my beer bottle with way too little ullage.) The trigger this time was a ...

When Fox remade John Ford's "Stagecoach" in 1966, the studio took out a full-page notice in <I>Variety</I> warning that anyone caught exhibiting the original "will be vigorously prosecuted." Don't ...

Master of the old Western film Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 classic “The Wild Bunch” remains, to this day, one of the most memorable (and sometimes gory) movies of its type. Master of the old Western film Sam ...

Over the past few weeks, the Film Center at New York’s Lincoln Center screened all 14 movies by maverick film director Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah may be less revered than Stanley Kubrick or Martin ...

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One of the many good things I can say about director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84) is that, as the creator of Westerns as revolutionary as The Wild Bunch (with its extreme, stylized violence) and Pat ...