“A privilege to work in films”: Sam Peckinpah among friends
Originally published in Movietone News 60-61, February 1979] Sam Peckinpah visited Seattle for several days in July, 1978, under the joint auspices of the Seattle Film Society and the Academy of Motion...
View ArticleReview: The Killer Elite
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Peckinpah’s newest film opens with a whirling drill bit boring through a wall. But, whether by design or accident, The Killer Elite is not the...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Noon Wine’
The Killer Elite / Noon Wine (1966) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – By even the most generous measure, The Killer Elite (1975) is one of Sam Peckinpah’s weakest film. Which, by Peckinpah standards, is still...
View ArticleVideophiled Best of 2014 on Blu-ray and DVD
The death of Blu-ray and DVD has apparently been prematurely called. Streaming and cable VOD still dominates home viewing but Redbox and other kiosk-based disc vendors have kept disc rentals alive (if...
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