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Article: AUTHOR GIVES PECKINPAH AND HIS FILMS A SECOND LOOK.(Spotlight)(Column)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1997
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Byline: Dale L. Walker
Peckinpah: The Western Films: A Reconsideration - Paul Seydor (University of Illinois Press, $29.95). ``Like Orson Welles, Peckinpah was blessed in becoming a legend early on and damned by having to live up to it the rest of his life.'' So says Paul Seydor, the Los Angeles film editor and author, in this astonishingly detailed and insightful book that is certainly among the best books on film ever written and very likely the greatest on a film director.
Sam Peckinpah was a turbulent, towering genius whose personal excesses - a deadly mix of drink, dope and despair - got in the way of his accomplishments, many of them unparalleled ...