The Cinema Massimo will host a retrospective arriving from the Locarno Film Festival and dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, one of the innovators of American westerns.
Cinema Massimo – from 13 to 30 September 2015 – Screen Three
The retrospective for September, hosted by the Cinema Massimo, is dedicated to the American filmmaker and screenwriter Sam Peckinpah, considered one of the great overseas innovators in westerns. After departing in 1984, he left masterpieces such as The wild bunch (1969), which he also wrote (garnering a nomination at the Oscars for best screenplay). Among other films, he directed Junior Bonner (1972), starring Steve McQueen, and Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), which was reinstated and considered as a forerunner of the pulp genre, after being received as an almost worthless work, inspiring subsequent films.