Brilliant man. Articulate and sensitive as well. He's been depicted as a violent drunken madman over the years but that was only one side of his personality, and we all have our own demons to wrestle with.
Sam Peckinpah was one of the greatest rebels of cinema. He gave zero f’s about what people thought, he did what he wanted regarding his films. He has made some of the most entertaining yet provocative films. He deserves more respect.
One of the great "auteurs" of American cinema. Bring Me the Head . . . is one of my favorite films. There is a lot of appreciation and love for Mexico in that film as well as in The Wild Bunch.
One of my heroes. I love the work of Sam Peckinpah, especially THE WILD BUNCH and CROSS OF IRON. Great film poet. RIP Sam. P.S. Artists will say anything in interviews. Peckinpah was THE master of cinema as Theatre of Cruelty. Personally, I'm grateful for the honest, nihilistic poetry of his work.
Awesome honesty. Beyond the issues and dependency in his life, his films are his legacy. No filters. No PR B.S press junket interviews. They would never allow this kind of conversation to air mainstream today. I doubt the filmmakers today would dare strip naked and be this honest.
What a brilliant interview. I love Sam's films, "The Wild Bunch" is a the work of a master. Those who criticised him for the violence in his films, yet turned a blind eye to the mass murder committed by their government's and those of their allies, in their names, need to question their own morality. Films are art , not reality. Sam Peckinpah made some of the best. A true Legend of cinema.
I had never heard Peckinpah in interview and can't believe that the articulate, brilliant, cultured man I just listened to is the same Peckinpah whose on-the-set drunken antics were so famous (and damaging to his reputation).
I love a lot of what he said here. His views on war and the solution was brilliant! What he said about Always surrounding yourself with people who know more, great advice.
Drinking bourbon, smoking, speaking his mind. These days, its some hipster director yukking it up, schoomzing about his overlong CGI comic book snooze-fest.
@@percuriosus2637 Yes, but clearly he's being facetious. He's saying Peckinpah drank and coke'd himself to death. His lifestyle caused his heart to give out. Fun Fact: his coke habit got so bad that at one point Peckinpah went down to Colombia (under the pretext of scouting for a movie) to try to establish his own coke connection with a Cartel - an endeavor that failed miserably.
Always Norman keeps returning to the question of violence in Peckinpah's movies as if that was all his films were about.The violence only takes up a small percentage of any of his films, there is so much more to talk about than the blood and guts.Love listening to Sam Peckinpah speak here, such an interesting and charismatic man.
You are entitled to your opinion. personally, I never understood the gratuitous violence in his films. And he treated the film crew, stunt crew and actors he worked with like shit. And in this interview, he comes off as a pompous ass.
This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.
I bet he didn't even see it. He was probably tired of being "blamed" for it all the time, even though TCM isn't nearly as graphic as people would imagine it to be.
no .. got that wrong.. this is the BBC.. they ask everyone challenging questions in order to bring out the best in them .. would not have spent so much time with the guy - if they did not so much respect him.. BBC would have treated Dennis Potter just the same - the man who they paid to write their best TV plays of the time..
@@plasticweapon BBC has gone terribly down hill since then - now too often most concerned to chase the rating and to avoid upsetting anyone with any power and influence..
Two film makes who have a debt of influence too Don Siegel. Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood. Three of my favourite film makers and all proper, proper men.
Pure Peckinpah, a sheer masterclass of a man, and a grandmaster of American cinema, period. The man even sounds like he's seen it and done it all, very calm, cool and collected, with an inflection you just don't hear in American men anymore.
I love how, in addition to the coffee, there is a bottle of booze at ready that Sam picks up halfway through and pours into the coffee he praised only minutes earlier. Classic Peckinpah.
Sam does talk as if he's slightly bombed. But then booze was his weakness. Like a lot of people in his generation he though that hard boozing was a sign of machismo. It killed Bogie and Holden.
Cigarettes killed Bogie, throat cancer. Holden tripped and fell causing a severe gash in his forehead. Unconscious he bled to death alone in his apartment.
Here, Barry is dealing with a US Marine and WW2 Vet. I knew many as a kid, and every last fucking one of them kept a bottle of lightning within easy reach. When they spoke, they didn't mince words.
I wonder what the people who used to complain about the violence in Peckinpah´s films think about the violence in today´s movies, which is far worse in my opinion
I think he was a super screwed up person... had a butt-load of problems and addictions -- very abused, abusive and jagged. But that said, GOD HIS FUCKING MOVIES WERE GOOD.
I lived near North Fork Ca from 2001-2018 and spent a lot a time there. The lumber mill closed in the 1990's. It was the gateway into Mammoth Pool and the most remote unpopulated area of the Sierra Mtns. Still is but now the Entire San Joaquin River drainage is burned and those fires since 2012 have burned right up to North Fork. A cool 700,000 acres.
Peckinpah would have taken Wayne in a direction that would have made The Searchers look like a Sunday picnic. Wayne would have probably liked the idea as an actor, but he had an image to maintain, regarding his own productions.
Tarantino modeled himself on Peckinpah, but Peckinpah was attempting to recreate reality. Tarantino just thinks like a child. I studied media violence, these journalists dont. Violent society doesn't come from movies. Only video games can increase the likelihood of violence. He's correct, the news is much more dangerous: it frames rare narratives as commonplace; it repeats without your consent and it seeks to sell the 'cinematic nature' of the act. Cross of Iron ended like Scorsese's Last Temptation. Ran out of film and made the ending stronger.
Lee Lorenz Tarantino is an exploitation film maker the type of people Sam hated. Reservoir dogs is the best film Tarantino has done and that film has Sam all over it.
Many classics from this Amazing Director with the Wild Bunch being an all time Classic , the only way you can take violence out of the cinema is to ban it , But how can you make a picture about a violent happening without depicting it ...R.I.P. Sam Peckinpah , how I would love to see all the uncut versions of these masterpieces .
Looking at the violence in Alfredo, it is hard to see what all the fuss was about. There is so much more violence on TV and in films these days. All I see is great tension and well-composed shots.
5:04 Impressive how Peckinpah handled this question. We know what he's getting at, yet he answers in a way that could survive even today's antagonistic critics.
As a film buff for four plus decades his films are quite mesmerising and they have undoubtedly aged well, some people crave pat answers and a feel good sense leaving the cinema Sam didn't or couldn't do that and many of todays great directors cite him as an important inspiration also he was a soldier who saw real violence in action and its disturbing effects on people then he portrayed that in his work and he was described as weirdo glorifying violence.....go figure.
Good interview. Sure, Barry Norman dwelt on the violence for more, than might have been necessary. But when Peckinpah spoke, he shut up and listened. So seems he was not a fan of The Texas Chainsaw Masacare. He obviously likes to take the piss too. He had me laughing on his description of the filming of Cross of Iron.
This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.
Sam Pinckinpah's masterpiece scene is the one where the love between Doc and his wife is reborn from the ashes, in the middle of the garbage. (The getaway Mc Queen ft Ali Mc Graw)... No one! Not even Kubrick, has produced such an allegory
"Who is 'THEY' to tell me what I can or can't do?" -Quentin Tarantino in regards to his film Django Unchained. "The version of the film that got released is the tame version. There was a lot of even worse stuff that got cut out of it that we couldn't show" - Sam Jack on his role in Django Unchained, or something like that.
Thank you so much for this! Aside from the little segment in the Hollywood Mavericks documentary,this is the first interview I've seen with this genius.Are there more out there? I've read tons of interviews with him but only seen this one.Thanks again!
I thought the same. Only 51yo, but looks like a senior citizen. I'm NOT knocking that at all, tho. In fact I am very attracted to men like this. It's just a testament of the hardcore life he lived.
There will always be violence in this world and you cannot blame works of art that show violence honestly, and how painful and tragic it is, for violence supposedly caused in its name. If that were so, let's burn all the Bible's, ban Shakespeare, Bull fighting, boxing, etc. By repressing something and showing a lie, you do more damage than if you show the truth. (Of course, there are movies that celebrate violence, but they're so badly made and obviously trash that they usually disappear very quickly, and cannot be compared to a film by Peckinpah or Scorsese.)
“I am a typed director. If you read a poster that said “Sam Peckinpah presents Cinderella”, you’d expect to see Prince Charming mow down the wicked stepmother and the sisters.”- Sam Peckinpah
Barry Norman if placed in - at least - the present and the last 30 years. Would be thought of as out of touch...or an idiot. He was always one to play it safe.
-I canot compete with the news- end of the stoy about Sam endorsin violence. It´s as funny as sad how naive we still are as a society. Not ready for mature lectures of the reality, of the real world, even through artistic ways, even nowadays...
I agree that Texas Chainsaw Massacre can be easily seen as trash, it is raw, not poetic in a nuanced way, Peckinpah was never raw in a direct way, he was ambiguous, artistic in a playful way, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs or Killer Elite have multiple emotional layers, TCM is a one note film that we see a lot of these days.
I disagree. There is a charm to TCM that keeps it as big as it is. More notes than one, id say. Just levels of madness that increase as the picture goes on.
I seriously doubt Peckinpah actually watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he was just going on what he read in the press at the time. It's not even that graphic of a movie, mainly relying on atmosphere.
Brilliant man. Articulate and sensitive as well. He's been depicted as a violent drunken madman over the years but that was only one side of his personality, and we all have our own demons to wrestle with.
Exactly! He never made peace with God, unfortunately. Hence the substance abuse.
Sam Peckinpah was one of the greatest rebels of cinema. He gave zero f’s about what people thought, he did what he wanted regarding his films. He has made some of the most entertaining yet provocative films. He deserves more respect.
I hope people say this about me
The Great Director
He has it, his films will echo into eternity and back
A somewhat tragic hero but my favorite film maker bar none. This interview just sealed that idea. TY 4 posting.
Very intelligent guy, he was his own man.
Wise man and poet. Rest in Peace Sam
One of the great "auteurs" of American cinema. Bring Me the Head . . . is one of my favorite films. There is a lot of appreciation and love for Mexico in that film as well as in The Wild Bunch.
One of my heroes. I love the work of Sam Peckinpah, especially THE WILD BUNCH and CROSS OF IRON. Great film poet. RIP Sam.
P.S. Artists will say anything in interviews. Peckinpah was THE master of cinema as Theatre of Cruelty. Personally, I'm grateful for the honest, nihilistic poetry of his work.
yes.. i thought that Malcolm X, Frank Zappa and Germaine Greer were the holy trinity.. i forgot for a moment about Sam..
I love how he quotes and quotes. All hail bloody sam!
Sam was a fucking legend
Very intelligent man shame he passed away quite early in his life. Very influential filmmaker.
+John Ninnis He was 59 actually.
Roy Phillips still not that old
Roy Phillips still young
@@Madbandit77 Well 59 is still a young age. At least he did make a great film Cross of Iron after this film.
Awesome honesty. Beyond the issues and dependency in his life, his films are his legacy. No filters. No PR B.S press junket interviews. They would never allow this kind of conversation to air mainstream today. I doubt the filmmakers today would dare strip naked and be this honest.
What a brilliant interview. I love Sam's films, "The Wild Bunch" is a the work of a master.
Those who criticised him for the violence in his films, yet turned a blind eye to the mass murder committed by their government's and those of their allies, in their names, need to question their own morality.
Films are art , not reality. Sam Peckinpah made some of the best. A true Legend of cinema.
Sam Peckinpah was an institution. Cross of Iron was a masterpiece. He always got the best out of Warren Oates. This was a great interview.
"He always got the best out of Warren Oates."
The best compliment of Peckinpah ever written. Thank you Sir.
Fascinating man and sadly missed.
Oh God that's good coffee! *pours whisky in it*
I had never heard Peckinpah in interview and can't believe that the articulate, brilliant, cultured man I just listened to is the same Peckinpah whose on-the-set drunken antics were so famous (and damaging to his reputation).
I love a lot of what he said here. His views on war and the solution was brilliant! What he said about Always surrounding yourself with people who know more, great advice.
8:45 "I cannot compete with the news."
Drinking bourbon, smoking, speaking his mind. These days, its some hipster director yukking it up, schoomzing about his overlong CGI comic book snooze-fest.
He killed himself in his 50s.
@@markharrison2544 Wasnt it a Heartattack?
@@percuriosus2637 Yes, but clearly he's being facetious. He's saying Peckinpah drank and coke'd himself to death. His lifestyle caused his heart to give out. Fun Fact: his coke habit got so bad that at one point Peckinpah went down to Colombia (under the pretext of scouting for a movie) to try to establish his own coke connection with a Cartel - an endeavor that failed miserably.
Ah a man of culture. You're absolutely right Super Hero movies are shit.
Always Norman keeps returning to the question of violence in Peckinpah's movies as if that was all his films were about.The violence only takes up a small percentage of any of his films, there is so much more to talk about than the blood and guts.Love listening to Sam Peckinpah speak here, such an interesting and charismatic man.
This was head and shoulders above any interview Barry Norman ever conducted.
Very intelligent as well as gifted man.
You are entitled to your opinion. personally, I never understood the gratuitous violence in his films. And he treated the film crew, stunt crew and actors he worked with like shit. And in this interview, he comes off as a pompous ass.
this is one the best interviews I have seen. I love Sam's je ne sais quo. This is a masterclass.
The perfect drinking partner we never had.
The real deal
Kind of doubt that. Monologue or silence, his way or else...
ehhhhh, NO. you would not have wanted to drink with this guy.
@@plasticweapon I would in a heartbeat !
@@DiZZaYWhALeY There's a chance you'd have been beaten to a pulp by his entourage, after Sam getting in the first punch.
I still Believe we only seen 50% of greatness from this Man
This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.
Are you sure that the master is missing? its not in the BBC archives? And what's the name of Barry Norman's film programme?
Interesting that he trashes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", a film as misunderstood as his own !
JosT TCM is just as much a classic as The Wild Bunch
Not that violent a movie compared with his films.
I bet he didn't even see it. He was probably tired of being "blamed" for it all the time, even though TCM isn't nearly as graphic as people would imagine it to be.
BBC coffee never looked so good.
I love the growing sarcasm from Sam as he pours first: a coffee, then booze and then lights a cigarette.
"I cannot compete wth the news." Amen. This interviewer is just out to humiliate his subject.
no .. got that wrong.. this is the BBC..
they ask everyone challenging questions in order to bring out the best in them .. would not have spent so much time with the guy - if they did not so much respect him..
BBC would have treated Dennis Potter just the same - the man who they paid to write their best TV plays of the time..
@@andipandi5641 your faith in the BBC is touching and misplaced.
@@plasticweapon
BBC has gone terribly down hill since then - now too often most concerned to chase the rating and to avoid upsetting anyone with any power and influence..
Two film makes who have a debt of influence too Don Siegel. Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood. Three of my favourite film makers and all proper, proper men.
Sam Peckinpah talks like a character in a Sam Peckinpah movie
Tarantino would have been impossible without Sam changing the landscape of cinema.
Tarantino can't carry Peckinpah's lunch.
@@stephenjoiner3738 AMEN to that buddy...
Tarantino only makes comedies
@@Stephen-lt1tp And quotations.
Best Director of all time!
First time I have ever heard his voice... I always imagined him having a southern or Texas accent, kinda like L.Q. Jones or Warren Oates.
+monksally He was from Bakersfield, California I think
+Ryan Wulfsohn He was born in Fresno, CA.
God I love this guy.
Pure Peckinpah, a sheer masterclass of a man, and a grandmaster of American cinema, period. The man even sounds like he's seen it and done it all, very calm, cool and collected, with an inflection you just don't hear in American men anymore.
I love how, in addition to the coffee, there is a bottle of booze at ready that Sam picks up halfway through and pours into the coffee he praised only minutes earlier. Classic Peckinpah.
Sam does talk as if he's slightly bombed. But then booze was his weakness. Like a lot of people in his generation he though that hard boozing was a sign of machismo. It killed Bogie and Holden.
Cigarettes killed Bogie, throat cancer. Holden tripped and fell causing a severe gash in his forehead. Unconscious he bled to death alone in his apartment.
@@palmershort5089 Alcoholism also caused Bogart's esophageal cancer.
@@palmershort5089 Holden slipped because he was drunk, and heavy drinking is going to exacerbate basically any kind of ill health condition RE bogart
wow!!! just awesome!!
Here, Barry is dealing with a US Marine and WW2 Vet. I knew many as a kid, and every last fucking one of them kept a bottle of lightning within easy reach. When they spoke, they didn't mince words.
RW4X4X3006 They all earned that right.
This is amazing. Thank you.
My last name is Peckinpah, this is one of the only people that I respect in my lineage.
If only Peckinpah could have made Under the Volcano and not John Huston. And with Richard Burton and not Albert Finney.
I wonder what the people who used to complain about the violence in Peckinpah´s films think about the violence in today´s movies, which is far worse in my opinion
davyjones2001 far more and not poetic at all like it used to be
Worst and cheaper nowadays
Far worse and with much less style
I think he was a super screwed up person... had a butt-load of problems and addictions -- very abused, abusive and jagged. But that said, GOD HIS FUCKING MOVIES WERE GOOD.
When men were men. Intellectual but not snobby. Just smart and experienced. No bullshit.
I lived near North Fork Ca from 2001-2018 and spent a lot a time there. The lumber mill closed in the 1990's. It was the gateway into Mammoth Pool and the most remote unpopulated area of the Sierra Mtns. Still is but now the Entire San Joaquin River drainage is burned and those fires since 2012 have burned right up to North Fork. A cool 700,000 acres.
PS, North Fork , where Sam lived, is the town in "The Rifleman". Sam sounds kinda like William F Buckley
"I must say, BBC coffee never looked so good." lol
Great director
brutal, uncompromising, honest
A true artist. His movies will still be masterpierces
Amazing video! I don't know where you found it but thanks for the upload.
Peckinpah is only around 52 years old here. I thought he was in his 60s, turns out he died at 59
I adore this man’s films what a guy ❤
Ride the High Country is a underrated western classic! Too bad John Wayne never worked with him.
Peckinpah would have taken Wayne in a direction that would have made The Searchers look like a Sunday picnic. Wayne would have probably liked the idea as an actor, but he had an image to maintain, regarding his own productions.
'You always knew better. You just forgot for a little while.'
Peckinpah also knew how to write dialogue to accompany his films.
Tarantino modeled himself on Peckinpah, but Peckinpah was attempting to recreate reality. Tarantino just thinks like a child. I studied media violence, these journalists dont. Violent society doesn't come from movies. Only video games can increase the likelihood of violence. He's correct, the news is much more dangerous: it frames rare narratives as commonplace; it repeats without your consent and it seeks to sell the 'cinematic nature' of the act. Cross of Iron ended like Scorsese's Last Temptation. Ran out of film and made the ending stronger.
Lee Lorenz Tarantino is an exploitation film maker the type of people Sam hated. Reservoir dogs is the best film Tarantino has done and that film has Sam all over it.
Video games don't cause violence either.
He died the year I was born. I must admit that I enjoyed a few of his movies too bad he died a bit young he could've made more movies
Could you imagine what kind of films Sam could make in THIS century? Whew!
Many classics from this Amazing Director with the Wild Bunch being an all time Classic , the only way you can take violence out of the cinema is to ban it , But how can you make a picture about a violent happening without depicting it ...R.I.P. Sam Peckinpah , how I would love to see all the uncut versions of these masterpieces .
Interesting that he was willing to criticize his use of violence. Quite a bit different than Tarantino's handling of this ...
Looking at the violence in Alfredo, it is hard to see what all the fuss was about. There is so much more violence on TV and in films these days. All I see is great tension and well-composed shots.
far more artistic and interesting than most violence today too
5:35 "I was wrong."
18:00 "That's a bunch of shit."
5:04 Impressive how Peckinpah handled this question. We know what he's getting at, yet he answers in a way that could survive even today's antagonistic critics.
Great Director but shocked at how all the alcohol and drugs made him look 20 years older than 51.
Hello Koyaanisqatsi, where have you find this rare television interview of Peckinpah? And do you have more footage of Sam?
Pre Scorsese Peckinpah was god of film making
Nial Westwood agreed. Better than Leone IMO
Scorsese should not be in the same sentence with Peckinpah!
As a film buff for four plus decades his films are quite mesmerising and they have undoubtedly aged well, some people crave pat answers and a feel good sense leaving the cinema Sam didn't or couldn't do that and many of todays great directors cite him as an important inspiration also he was a soldier who saw real violence in action and its disturbing effects on people then he portrayed that in his work and he was described as weirdo glorifying violence.....go figure.
10:26 preach my humble brother
Good interview. Sure, Barry Norman dwelt on the violence for more, than might have been necessary. But when Peckinpah spoke, he shut up and listened. So seems he was not a fan of The Texas Chainsaw Masacare. He obviously likes to take the piss too. He had me laughing on his description of the filming of Cross of Iron.
Sam Peckinpah was a genius, and The Wild Bunch is one of the best Westerns ever made.
What show is this, by the way?
This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.
Sam Pinckinpah's masterpiece scene is the one where the love between Doc and his wife is reborn from the ashes, in the middle of the garbage. (The getaway Mc Queen ft Ali Mc Graw)... No one! Not even Kubrick, has produced such an allegory
Brilliant answers, 10/10 :)
"Who is 'THEY' to tell me what I can or can't do?" -Quentin Tarantino in regards to his film Django Unchained.
"The version of the film that got released is the tame version. There was a lot of even worse stuff that got cut out of it that we couldn't show" - Sam Jack on his role in Django Unchained, or something like that.
Anybody else feel like Peckinpah would be a really cool first name for someone to have?
Should I ever have a son, I'll name him Peckinpah Hamill.
Thank you so much for this! Aside from the little segment in the Hollywood Mavericks documentary,this is the first interview I've seen with this genius.Are there more out there? I've read tons of interviews with him but only seen this one.Thanks again!
Last word: I can't compete with The News.
Why Sam looked like he's 60 when he's just 50/51.
I thought the same. Only 51yo, but looks like a senior citizen. I'm NOT knocking that at all, tho. In fact I am very attracted to men like this. It's just a testament of the hardcore life he lived.
Alcohol and cocaine
Barry Norman was out his depth here, he did seem to waffle on a bit, thinking back.
There will always be violence in this world and you cannot blame works of art that show violence honestly, and how painful and tragic it is, for violence supposedly caused in its name. If that were so, let's burn all the Bible's, ban Shakespeare, Bull fighting, boxing, etc. By repressing something and showing a lie, you do more damage than if you show the truth. (Of course, there are movies that celebrate violence, but they're so badly made and obviously trash that they usually disappear very quickly, and cannot be compared to a film by Peckinpah or Scorsese.)
When someone is so far ahead of his time that people (interviewers) are left trying to understand his foresight.
Interesting that both Sam and Warren Oates lost their fathers at an early age.
García, not Garthía.
Sam is god.
This director is the reason I call Quentin Tarantino a fanboy director . Sam Peckinpah is the real deal .
“I am a typed director. If you read a poster that said “Sam Peckinpah presents Cinderella”, you’d expect to see Prince Charming mow down the wicked stepmother and the sisters.”- Sam Peckinpah
you bloody 'Bloody Sam'
Barry Norman if placed in - at least - the present and the last 30 years. Would be thought of as out of touch...or an idiot. He was always one to play it safe.
A wise man.
3:20 - Too bad to hear him trash Texas Chainsaw Massacre and not understanding it's a great film.
He probably didn’t see it
Compared to the meaning in his films Texas chainsaw is a porntypethingee
Echoing that Peckinpah probably never watched it, he was just going on what the press said about TCM at the time.
The Scotch can really get to you.
Tarantino Scorsese all faced the same. Prat reviewers lauding Shakespeare and conveniently forgetting the violence in his plays
どなたか 日本語スーパーを入れてくださるとうれしいです。
Anyone know what film he was referring to towards the end when he said he believed it could be his best?
Convoy?. Which I found quiet disappointing.
-I canot compete with the news- end of the stoy about Sam endorsin violence. It´s as funny as sad how naive we still are as a society. Not ready for mature lectures of the reality, of the real world, even through artistic ways, even nowadays...
Nobody was better than sam
Great man!
But was this January 12 or December 1?
Thanks a billion for posting this gem!
Vebinz 1st December of 1976. You're welcome!
HAUNUI3
Thank you. I am always confused about numeric dates convention.
The Quentin Tarantino of the 60s and 70s
You can tell how fed up he was of being asked the same surface level impersonal questions. He also looks like he's trying to sober up hard.
18:00
I agree that Texas Chainsaw Massacre can be easily seen as trash, it is raw, not poetic in a nuanced way, Peckinpah was never raw in a direct way, he was ambiguous, artistic in a playful way, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs or Killer Elite have multiple emotional layers, TCM is a one note film that we see a lot of these days.
I disagree. There is a charm to TCM that keeps it as big as it is. More notes than one, id say. Just levels of madness that increase as the picture goes on.
@@adamturner1563 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was exploitation that's horrible filmmaking
I seriously doubt Peckinpah actually watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he was just going on what he read in the press at the time. It's not even that graphic of a movie, mainly relying on atmosphere.