Arthur Penn Articles

Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva in DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour (top); Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin in Dassin's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Never on Sunday (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1953-1959: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen 1960 DGA (14)Vincente Minnelli, Bells Are RingingWalter Lang, Can-CanDelbert Mann, The Dark at the Top of the StairsRichard Brooks, [...]

Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at age 88, is best known for the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde, whose explicit violence was supposed to reflect the then-raging Vietnam War (or so those involved in the film claim). Now, despite its undeniable qualities — [...]

Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde (top); Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (bottom) Dede Allen (right), best known for editing Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), died at her Los Angeles home on Saturday, April 17, days after suffering a stroke. She was 86 (as per the IMDb, 84). According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Allen was the first film editor to receive [...]

Geoff Boucher's "Remembering Bonnie and Clyde" in the Los Angeles Times: "'I remember a creative impatience by almost everyone involved," [Warren] Beatty said, "and there was so much energy on the screen.' The really interesting thing, though, was how audiences latched onto Bonnie and Clyde as a flexible symbol. Already feeling far removed from the Summer of Love, young America embraced it as nihilistic thrill [...]