Flashback 2 : Roy Scheider
An event took place recently, called “Smiles from the Stars: A Tribute to the Life and Work of actor Roy Scheider” at the Beverly Hills Hotel on April 4, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. Scheider died, aged 75, in November 2008, and I’m glad this fine actor is being remembered. He was always good, even [...]
Regarding “The Getaway”
The title of auteur can justifiably be applied to the work of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) in a career that encompassed fourteen films between 1962 and 1983. His recurring themes are those primarily of men out of step with the passage of time, outcasts on the edge of “civilised” society, who live a life filled with [...]
