The Chinese fest is marking the 100th birthday of Altman with "the largest retrospective of his works ever held in China" and of Peckinpah, "unique for his violent aesthetics," with 'The Wild Bunch.' ...

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 ...

This article contains mentions of sexual assault and abuse. Perhaps '70s cinema would truly be what it was without the influence of legendary filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. Although he comes from a ...

In the modern landscape of cinema and prestige television, audiences are completely desensitized to high-octane violence. Whether it is a gritty gunfight on a premium cable drama or an explosive ...

Long before modern cinema pushed the boundaries of onscreen gore, one controversial 1969 cowboy epic completely shattered the mold. Sam Peckinpah’s legendary 1969 epic The Wild Bunch overcame a ...

A 1973 classic was originally a box office failure, but was later named one of the greatest Westerns of all time.

A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's personal director's cut of his last film The Osterman Weekend (1983); recently restored by film historian Mike Siegel. Siegel documents the discovery and ...

Alfred Hitchcock might have treated his actors like cattle, but it took a demented iconoclast like Sam Peckinpah to actually pull a gun on them. Brilliant, mercurial, hard-drinking, violent, and by ...