I just watched Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia for the third time in two days. What a fine film. Anyone here ever see it? Or any other Sam Peckinpah movies, hes awesome.

Peckinpah will probably go over the heads of everyone else here. One of the topics for an extensive film analysis class last semester was Peckinpah. We watched all his films, some of them are kind of bad but most are BADASS. Alfredo Garcia is my favorite, along with Straw Dogs and the Wild Bunch. Ride the High Country is a great early western of his, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is also a great film, although it was butchered by the movie studio. Dylan did the soundtrack and actually stared in the film. They're going to rerelease it this year supposedly in the form that Peckinpah originally intended.

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I remember you saying that, and I can't wait for them to re-release it! Surely, I'll have a lot to talk about here when that time comes. It's a shame that the studio scumbags fucked with his film, but it's great that it will be released as he would have wanted it presented. That's why I'm so excited about it.

Peckinpah is one of my favorite directors. Even if nothing he did was relevant today, he would still be an originator and creator of so many ideals in filmmaking. But the movies he made are still the shit, still better than many of the best you'll see from the decades following. I would suggest you watch him - the films can be shamelessly brutal, but the narratives are strong. That's why he's so cool.

Matt, are you going to be making another of your Director's Series threads soon?

Here's proof that Matt is the man.

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/phpBB2/viewt ... =peckinpah

Spare me...

well that makes two of you, and believe me, I had both "Meg" and "Iago" in mind when I typed that. I just didn't feel like including your names, I was too lazy

Come on man, I love Peckinpah as much as the next man, Straw Dogs and Wild Bunch especially, but lets not be elitist about the whole thing. He is a bit artsy, but his overall message shouldn't go above the head of the average viewer much less the average poster on this board. He made some real shit in his later years, and really only had 5 good films during his prime, and none of them were among the top 50 IMO of films ever made. He was no Kubrick, but he was damn good. He did a great job of capturing an image and an idea, but his storytelling left much to be desired.