Standin' At The Crossroads : Director Arthur Penn dies at age 88

Πέμπτη 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

Director Arthur Penn dies at age 88

The Outsider : Arthur Penn's decades-long struggle against the Hollywood machine

by Michael Chaiken and Paul Cronin posted June 4, 2008

In his 50 years within the American film industry, Arthur Penn's changing fortunes have rivaled those of the greatest characters in his own films.

Born in Philadelphia in 1922, Penn grew up during the Depression, spending his childhood divided between the city of his birth and, after his parents' divorce in 1925, New York. The dislocation of Penn's home life, coupled with the stigma of being a child of divorce, would have a profound and lasting effect on his psychological and emotional development. Moving among comedy, tragedy, realism, and absurdity (sometimes within the same story), his films address the traumas of childhood and adolescence through characters whose lack of self-evident identity is circumscribed by the impersonal social forces governing their lives.(read more here)

A R T H U R P E N N (1922–2010) on IMDb

Arthur Penn, left, with the actors Warren Beatty and Alexandra Stewart, during rehearsals for the film “Mickey One” in 1964 (from.nytimes.com)

Penn, Arthur Hiller, 1922-, American director, brother of Irving Penn, b. Philadelphia; studied Black Mountain College and the Actors' Studio, Los Angeles. Penn, who often deals with themes of alienation in American life, began directing for television during the late 1940s. His Broadway credits include Two for the Seesaw (1958), The Miracle Worker (1959, Tony Award; film, 1962), and Toys in the Attic (1960). His first film, The Left-Handed Gun (1958), a psychologically probing study of Billy the Kid, was also an adaptation of a television drama. Penn's masterpiece, Bonnie and Clyde (1967), is a darkly brilliant study of the Depression-era outlaws that combines high drama with comedy, social comment, and extreme violence. Displaying an offbeat take on several screen genres, his other movies include Micky One (1965), Alice's Restaurant (1969), Little Big Man (1960), Night Moves (1975), and The Missouri Breaks (1976). Among his later, less commercially successful films are Four Friends (1981), Dead of Winter (1987), and Inside (1996).

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'Bonnie and Clyde' director Arthur Penn dies

Arthur Penn, Director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies

RIP ARTHUR PENN

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Arthur Penn's haunting tracking shot from the final scene of Alice's Restaurant. Set, with great effect, to Arlo Guthrie's title track.

Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn Trailer

Trailer for The Missouri Breaks (1976)Director: Arthur Penn

Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd, Frederic Forrest

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In this clip, Jack Crabb ( Dustin Hoffman) is bathed by Mrs. Pendrake (Faye Dunaway). To me, this is one of the best scenes in the movie, "Little Big Man," which is directed by Arthur Penn (director of Bonnie and Clyde).

THE CHASE (1966) DIRECTED BY ARTHUR PENN, STARRING MARLON BRANDO, ROBERT REDFORD, JANE FONDA, ROBERT DUVALL, ANGIE DICKINSON, JANICE RULE, MIRIAM HOPKINS, AND HENRY HULL..... R.I.P. TO DIRECTOR ARTHUR PENN WHO DIED RECENTLY....THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY UNDER THE FAIR USE ACT

The left handed gun - Arthur Penn (Billy The Kid)1968

Paul Newman - John Dehner - Lita Milan - Hurt Hatfield - James Congdon - James Best - Colin Keith ´- John Dierkes - Bob Anderson - Wally Brown -

Night Moves : A 1975 film starring Gene Hackman as Harry Moseby, a private eye that gets in way over his head. A great movie directed by the very talented Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde). Hackman turns in another awesome performance. If you love movies, this is one you shouldn't miss.

Arthur Penn from A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies

Bonnie Parker is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow. Clyde has dreams of a life of crime that will free him from the hardships of the Depression. The two fall in love and begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks with skill and panache, soon becoming minor celebrities known across the country. People are proud to have been held up by Bonnie and Clyde; to their victims, the duo is doing what nobody else has the guts to do. To the law, the two are evil bank robbers who deserve to be gunned down where they stand. Written by filmfactsman (IMDb.com)

Anne Bancroft in 'The Miracle Worker' (1962). Directed by Arthur Penn. In a scene with Patty Duke.

MICKEY ONE - WARREN BEATTY - 1965 Directed by Arthur Penn.

arthur penn four friends 1981

Target : City Lights w/ Brian Linehan 1985 Director Arthur Penn

Dead of Winter is a thriller film made in 1987 and is a remake of the 1945 film My Name Is Julia Ross and stars Mary Steenburgen who plays three roles in the film.Directed by Arthur Penn 1987

Arthur Penn Teller Get Killed 1989

Arthur Penn Inside 1996 TV

Arthur A. Penn (not to be confused with Arthur Hiller Penn )wrote both the words and music to "Smilin' Through" in 1919--he was inspired by a Broadway play of the same title which captured the heady, Wilsonian optimism following the First World War.

Many artists recorded the song in following years, but perhaps none resonated so well with her times and audience than did Britain's Vera Lynn, joined by Jay Wilbur and his Serenaders in this Second World War performance.

SMILIN' THROUGH

There's a little brown road windin' over the hill

To a little white cot by the sea

There's a little green gate

At whose trellis I wait

While two eyes o' blue

Come smilin' through at me

There's a gray lock or two in the brown of the hair

There's some silver in mine too, I see

But in all the long years

When the clouds brought their tears

Those two eyes o' blue