FSLC Announces BRING ME THE HEAD OF SAM PECKINPAH Retrospective
By: Caryn Robbins Feb. 10, 2016
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah, a complete retrospective of the film work of cinema's great choreographer of blood and bullets, March 31 - April 7. The director's filmography, originally presented by the Locarno International Film Festival, will screen almost entirely on 35mm.
"Peckinpah was clever and he was demonically intuitive, and he had such self-dramatizing brio. He liked the hopelessness of it all; the role he played was the loser. And though the competition is keen, he's perhaps the greatest martyr/ham in Hollywood history." - Pauline Kael Sam Peckinpah ushered in a new era of American filmmaking with his deliriously violent, coolly existentialist, strikingly lyrical works, which spoke to an American public disillusioned by events like the Vietnam War and Watergate. A pivotal director who revolutionized the Western and action genres, he stood between worlds, straddling the tradition of craft that defined the classic studio era and the freewheeling experimentation of New Hollywood. At their heart, Peckinpah's movies are elegies: for the ideals of the Old West, for honorable men compromised by circumstances beyond their control, for a mythic America that may never have existed.Videos