One hundred years after his birth, Casa del Cinema celebrates the brutal and Baroque cinematic universe of Sam Peckinpah with the series “Peckinpah 100”, four masterpieces by the director who reinvented the western and war film genres, accompanied by a documentary portrait with a rich array of rare material and valuable eyewitness accounts.
The opening film, on Sunday March 2nd at 6 pm, will be The Wild Bunch, a reference point for every western film after it, while on Thursday March 6th at 8 pm, the public is invited to see The Getaway, one of the greatest pure action films in the history of American cinema, starring the legendary Steve McQueen.
On Sunday March 9th at 11 am, the screening will feature Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a memorable version of the clash between the sheriff and the outlaw, a tragic elegy – with a soundtrack by Bob Dylan – about the end of an era and the violence inscribed in the DNA of homo americanus.
The next day at 8 pm, the programme will feature Cross of Iron, one of the best war films ever made, a work that little by little demolished all the stereotypes of war films.
The series ends on Tuesday March 11th at 8 pm with the screening of the documentary Sam Peckinpah: Portrait, an all-around portrait of the great American filmmaker made by Umberto Berlenghini, who will meet the audience of Casa del Cinema, and Michelangelo Dalto. Admission to the screening of the documentary is free.