TCM is Full of Good/Great Movies Today
The Petrified Forest
Dark Passage
Bullitt
The Yakuza (version with Robert Mitchum)
Dog day afternoon
Who's Afraid of virginia woolf?
cool hand luke
the wild bunch
petulia
a fine list
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Nice.
Cool Hand Luke, Bullit, Dog Day Afternoon and The Wild Bunch are some favorites of mine.
I think the 60s-70s era is when movies really changed. The violence and crime seemed to get heightened and human suffering became more realistic.
In older movies the Cowboy or Gangster would get shot, he’d gasp and then simply fall down.
I doubt that’s how it works.
Yeah, they like to attribute that to Sam, or the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" (which like "The Wild Bunch", I found underwhelming - but have you seen "The Professionals" made a few years earlier?). I have this compendium of Directors: Conversations books, and Peckinpah (convincingly) said he had hoped it would have a reverse effect (after being told Africans were wanting to die like Holden Pike), which I find naive. He wanted to get out of the gutter after having issues from the very beginning. With this movie, he had a great cast, and then with all the hoopla "Bonnie and Clyde" got, and his own violent nature, and Warner Brothers producing it, he probably knew it would have to be "commercial"... I recorded it yesterday, despite seeing it two times.
I actually saw "High Sierra" with Bogart, and boy, they said a lot of suggestive stuff in 5 seconds, as opposed to milking it to death. Not that I would object to see Ida Lupino naked in an "art-house" movie :)
As Sam Peckinpah once replied, "Would you be more afraid of a snake, or half-a-snake?"