Arthur Penn

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Arthur Penn (1922-2010)



Filmography

The Gulf Playhouse (TV series episode, 1953)

Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series episode, 1954)

The Philco Television Playhouse (2 TV series episodes, 1954)

Playwrights '56 (TV episode, 1956)

Playhouse 90 (5 TV series episodes, 1957-1958)

The Left Handed Gun (1958) Warner (R1) – also included in The Paul Newman Collection

The Miracle Worker (1962) MGM (R1) / MGM (R2 UK)

Mickey One (1965)

The Chase (1966) Columbia (R1)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Warner (R1) / Warner (R2 UK) / Warner (R4 AU)

Flesh and Blood (TV, 1968)

Alice's Restaurant (1969) MGM (R1)

Little Big Man (1970) Paramount (R1)

Visions of Eight (segment, 1973)

Night Moves (1975) Warner (R1)

The Missouri Breaks (1976) MGM (R1) / MGM (R2 UK) – also included in Marlon Brando Collection / SPO Entertainment (R2 JP) / MGM (R4 AU)

Four Friends (1981) MGM (R1)

Target (1985) Paramount (R1)

Dead of Winter (1987) MGM (R1)

Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)

The Portrait (TV, 1993)

Lumière et compagnie (Lumière and Company) (episode, 1995)

Inside (TV, 1996) Pioneer Entertainment (R1)

100 Centre Street (TV series episode, 2001)


Recommended Web Resources

Berlin Film Festival – Honorary Golden Bear awarded to Arthur Penn in 2007

Cambridge University – excerpt from Lester D. Friedman's book Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (pdf file)

DGA Monthly – Bill Kelman “Under the Influence: Arthur Penn and Little Big Manâ€

[atcolomb]

Arthur Penn 1922-2010 ..favorites are Bonnie & Clyde and Alice's Restaurant.

[HarryLong]

I like both, but I love LITTLE BIG MAN.

[Kellen]

So sad he passed away.

I liked: Alice's Restaurant, Bonnie & Clyde, The Left Handed Gun.

[Lemmy Caution]

So sad he passed away.
I liked: Alice's Restaurant, Bonnie & Clyde, The Left Handed Gun.

You should reverse your avatar in his honor.

[antnield]

Brad Stevens discusses Penn & Teller Get Killed for Sight & Sound's ongoing Lost & Found series on neglected films.

From the same issue, here's Peter Biskind's obituary.

[knives]

Is Flesh and Blood available anywhere?

[Perkins Cobb]

Is Flesh and Blood available anywhere?

I'm working on a piece about this show (and its lamentable unavailability) but, short answer: no. Not in any major US archive nor in Penn's own collection. NBC may have it, but they have elements scattered in several vaults and were churlish when inquiries were made about a search.

[knives]

That's terrible. It's one of the few empty spots for him around. Criminal that it and many films like it (I'm primarily thinking of Frankenheimer's Turn of the Screw) aren't given their due.

[Perkins Cobb]

"Turn of the Screw" ran on TVLand once, believe it or not, but there are still many important Frankenheimer (and Arthur Penn) shows that don't exist outside the vaults, or maybe at all.

Flesh and Blood, incidentally, was mentioned in the NY Times's recent obit for its author, William Hanley, who was also John Frankenheimer's favored screenwriter around the same time.