Z Channel: the Los Angeles TV station that played a major role in ushering in the age of the director’s cut
A different cut can change a film’s reputation.
Sam Peckinpah
The movie so violent Martin Scorsese found it borderline orgasmic: “So to speak”
Too much information.
The classic western that appalled John Wayne: “Distasteful”
“It would have been a good picture without the gore.”
The director who called Sam Peckinpah overrated: “I think he was a very limited writer”
Distinguished collaborators don’t always remember each other fondly…
When Marlon Brando made short work of a legendary director: “He fired me”
Brando cut this legendary writer/director loose after only a few weeks.
The actor who called Sam Peckinpah a genius, but only for four hours a day
The visionary director was a difficult man to work with.
“It just didn’t happen”: when Stephen King almost wrote a movie for Sam Peckinpah
An unusual pairing, but an exciting one.
Sam Peckinpah’s opinion on the greatest directors in history: “Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman”
These directors left their mark according to Sam Peckinpah.