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Arthur Penn - news / articles

Director Penn hospitalised with pneumonia - 19 July 2009
-Bonnie And Clyde director Arthur Penn has cancelled his appearance at the Maine International Film Festival after falling ill with pneumonia.- -Penn, 86, was to set receive an award at the event in Waterville on Wednesday (15Jul09).- - The director's son, Matthew,

Arthur Penn - what members say

Little Big Man review by HD from WEST BROMWICH

29 July 2004
...Arthur Penn uses every technique that is common in westerns, from the roaming landscapes to the mythology of the old gunslinger. However, this film is the first western to... Read customer review

The Missouri Breaks review by from Andover, Hampshire England

Rustling Rascals get Regulated! 10 March 2009
...This is another awesome Arthur Penn view of the Wild West, with attitude. The film opens with local landowner David Braxton (John McLiam) and his foreman discussing the p... Read customer review

Arthur Penn - filmography

Beethoven - Symphony Nos. 6 & 7 on DVD (2001)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Paula Devicq, Joseph Lyle Taylor
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 conducted by Herbert Von Karajan.

35% from 4 members

Dead of Winter (1987)
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Katie McGovern is a struggling actress living with her lazy husband and her student brother. She attends an audition that she found in the paper and is selected to shoot a short video which will be sent to the director for his approval. Mr. Murray, the auditioner, picks Katie up and takes her to a ..read more »

40% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Target (1985)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Herbert Berghof
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon star as father and son in this unique blend of family relationships and international intrigue. Walter Lloyd (Hackman) is a simple businessman raising his normal family in a Texas suburb. He and his wife, Donna, love each other very much. Walter and his son, however, do ..read more »

59% from 332 members
Not currently released

The Missouri Breaks on DVD (1976)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
It's the wild frontier and anything goes, especially in the untamed territory of Montana. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a gang of cattle thieves out for revenge when one of its members is hanged by wealthy rancher David Braxton. Braxton, however, has hired expert manhunter Lee Clayton (Marlon ..read more »

61% from 801 members

Night Moves (1975)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
A stylish thriller about a private eye hired to find a missing heiress. Who can he trust? Who can he believe?

68% from 66 members
Currently unavailable

Little Big Man on DVD (1970)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-..read more »

70% from 2,600 members

Alice's Restaurant on DVD (1969)
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn (i)
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Intrigued by the counterculture tale of Arlo Guthrie's epic 1968 talking-blues record The Alice's Restaurant Massacree, director Arthur Penn, co-scripting with playwright Venable Herndon, adapted the song into the 1969 feature Alice's Restaurant. Hippie outsider Arlo (Guthrie, playing himself) ..read more »

57% from 381 members

Bonnie and Clyde on DVD (1967)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true ..read more »

70% from 9,998 members

Bonnie and Clyde - Blu-ray (1967)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie is bored with life and wants a ..read more »

71% from 641 members

The Chase on DVD (1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday ..read more »

62% from 562 members

The Miracle Worker on DVD (1962)
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Andrew Prine
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate:
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, THE MIRACLE WORKER is a gripping and inspiring story of the battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller (a brilliant Patty Duke) is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind,..read more »

70% from 599 members

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese ...
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Penn
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Certificate:
Landmarks of American cinema, as well as some lesser known byways are explored by director Martin Scorsese in this fascinating documentary. As he analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith and John Cassavetes, we discover Scorsese's passion for cinema.

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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese ...
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Penn
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Certificate:
Landmarks of American cinema, as well as some lesser known byways are explored by director Martin Scorsese in Part 2 of this fascinating documentary. As he analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith and John Cassavetes, we discover Scorsese's passion for cinema.

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The Paul Newman Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh
Director: John Huston, Arthur Penn
Certificate:
Includes HARPER (1966), THE DROWNING POOL (1975), THE LEFT HANDED GUN (1958), THE MACKINTOSH MAN (1973) and SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (1956).

70% from 429 members

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese ...
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Penn
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Certificate:
Landmarks of American cinema, as well as some lesser known byways are explored by director Martin Scorsese in Part 3 of this fascinating documentary. As he analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith and John Cassavetes, we discover Scorsese's passion for cinema.

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Arthur Penn facts

5 most recent films

Beethoven - Symphony Nos. 6 & 7 - 2.0 stars
Dead of Winter - 2.0 stars
Target - 3.0 stars
The Missouri Breaks - 3.0 stars
Night Moves - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bonnie and Clyde - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Paul Newman Collection - 3.5 stars
Little Big Man - 3.5 stars
Bonnie and Clyde - 3.5 stars
The Miracle Worker - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Beethoven - Symphony Nos. 6 & 7 - 2.0 stars
Dead of Winter - 2.0 stars
Alice's Restaurant - 3.0 stars
Target - 3.0 stars
The Missouri Breaks - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Billy Wilder - 6 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 6 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 6 times - show films
Gene Hackman - 5 times - show films
Faye Dunaway - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Martin Scorsese - 6 times - show films
Michael Henry Wilson - 6 times - show films
John Huston - 1 times - show films