Brilliant man. Articulate and sensitive as well. He's been depicted as a violent drunken madman over the years but that was only one side of his personality, and we all have our own demons to wrestle with.

@shanedurban

Жыл бұрын

He was quite drunk, but I agree.

Sam Peckinpah was one of the greatest rebels of cinema. He gave zero f’s about what people thought, he did what he wanted regarding his films. He has made some of the most entertaining yet provocative films. He deserves more respect.

@_scabs6669

Жыл бұрын

I hope people say this about me

@LightVit

8 ай бұрын

The Great Director

@alantracy6757

11 күн бұрын

He has it, his films will echo into eternity and back

Sam Peckinpah was an institution. Cross of Iron was a masterpiece. He always got the best out of Warren Oates. This was a great interview.

@tylsimys67

2 жыл бұрын

"He always got the best out of Warren Oates." The best compliment of Peckinpah ever written. Thank you Sir.

Very intelligent guy, he was his own man.

Wise man and poet. Rest in Peace Sam

Sam was a fucking legend

One of the great "auteurs" of American cinema. Bring Me the Head . . . is one of my favorite films. There is a lot of appreciation and love for Mexico in that film as well as in The Wild Bunch.

One of my heroes. I love the work of Sam Peckinpah, especially THE WILD BUNCH and CROSS OF IRON. Great film poet. RIP Sam. P.S. Artists will say anything in interviews. Peckinpah was THE master of cinema as Theatre of Cruelty. Personally, I'm grateful for the honest, nihilistic poetry of his work.

@andipandi5641

4 жыл бұрын

yes.. i thought that Malcolm X, Frank Zappa and Germaine Greer were the holy trinity.. i forgot for a moment about Sam..

Oh God that's good coffee! *pours whisky in it*

I had never heard Peckinpah in interview and can't believe that the articulate, brilliant, cultured man I just listened to is the same Peckinpah whose on-the-set drunken antics were so famous (and damaging to his reputation).

Fascinating man and sadly missed.

A somewhat tragic hero but my favorite film maker bar none. This interview just sealed that idea. TY 4 posting.

I love how he quotes and quotes. All hail bloody sam!

Cross of Iron is a masterpiece about bravery, questions on bravery and disillusionment. It also showcases above all the late Sam Peckinpah's interest in philosophy something missed by the dunces in the critique world who were preoccupied about how he showed violence on screen and nothing to them mattered after that.

@JHarder1000

6 жыл бұрын

Orson Welles called Cross of Iron the greatest antiwar film since All Quiet On the Western Front

@markharrison2544

6 жыл бұрын

"Cross of Iron" was a stupid film.

@JHarder1000

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Harrison: That is your opinionI have never seen it.I prefer watch it myself.

@robzilla730

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Harder Mark Harrison probably thinks Brokeback Mountain is a great film.

@markharrison2544

5 жыл бұрын

@@robzilla730 "Cross of Iron" was just unrealistic low budget crap with an elderly cast.

The perfect drinking partner we never had.

@pjr5913

2 жыл бұрын

The real deal

@tylsimys67

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of doubt that. Monologue or silence, his way or else...

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

ehhhhh, NO. you would not have wanted to drink with this guy.

@user-mj1qo8vm1x

Жыл бұрын

@@plasticweapon I would in a heartbeat !

@em7dim9

10 ай бұрын

@@user-mj1qo8vm1x There's a chance you'd have been beaten to a pulp by his entourage, after Sam getting in the first punch.

8:45 "I cannot compete with the news."

Very intelligent man shame he passed away quite early in his life. Very influential filmmaker.

@Madbandit77

8 жыл бұрын

+John Ninnis He was 59 actually.

@asafisher7407

7 жыл бұрын

Roy Phillips still not that old

@jorgepalomares8025

7 жыл бұрын

Roy Phillips still young

@ninfilms

4 жыл бұрын

@@Madbandit77 Well 59 is still a young age. At least he did make a great film Cross of Iron after this film.

Awesome honesty. Beyond the issues and dependency in his life, his films are his legacy. No filters. No PR B.S press junket interviews. They would never allow this kind of conversation to air mainstream today. I doubt the filmmakers today would dare strip naked and be this honest.

This was head and shoulders above any interview Barry Norman ever conducted.

Pure Badass

Interesting that he trashes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", a film as misunderstood as his own !

@robzilla730

6 жыл бұрын

JosT TCM is just as much a classic as The Wild Bunch

@j.b.9260

5 жыл бұрын

Not that violent a movie compared with his films.

@alexdelarge5872

5 жыл бұрын

I bet he didn't even see it. He was probably tired of being "blamed" for it all the time, even though TCM isn't nearly as graphic as people would imagine it to be.

Very intelligent as well as gifted man.

@rayjr62

6 жыл бұрын

You are entitled to your opinion. personally, I never understood the gratuitous violence in his films. And he treated the film crew, stunt crew and actors he worked with like shit. And in this interview, he comes off as a pompous ass.

Tarantino would have been impossible without Sam changing the landscape of cinema.

@stephenjoiner3738

6 жыл бұрын

Tarantino can't carry Peckinpah's lunch.

@jatinderdevgun9093

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenjoiner3738 AMEN to that buddy...

I still Believe we only seen 50% of greatness from this Man

Always Norman keeps returning to the question of violence in Peckinpah's movies as if that was all his films were about.The violence only takes up a small percentage of any of his films, there is so much more to talk about than the blood and guts.Love listening to Sam Peckinpah speak here, such an interesting and charismatic man.

BBC coffee never looked so good.

I love the growing sarcasm from Sam as he pours first: a coffee, then booze and then lights a cigarette.

I love how, in addition to the coffee, there is a bottle of booze at ready that Sam picks up halfway through and pours into the coffee he praised only minutes earlier. Classic Peckinpah.

@danielschaeffer1294

7 жыл бұрын

Sam does talk as if he's slightly bombed. But then booze was his weakness. Like a lot of people in his generation he though that hard boozing was a sign of machismo. It killed Bogie and Holden.

@palmershort5089

7 жыл бұрын

Cigarettes killed Bogie, throat cancer. Holden tripped and fell causing a severe gash in his forehead. Unconscious he bled to death alone in his apartment.

@markharrison2544

5 жыл бұрын

@@palmershort5089 Alcoholism also caused Bogart's esophageal cancer.

@trenttrip6205

Жыл бұрын

@@palmershort5089 Holden slipped because he was drunk, and heavy drinking is going to exacerbate basically any kind of ill health condition RE bogart

Drinking bourbon, smoking, speaking his mind. These days, its some hipster director yukking it up, schoomzing about his overlong CGI comic book snooze-fest.

@markharrison2544

5 жыл бұрын

He killed himself in his 50s.

@percuriosus2637

5 жыл бұрын

@@markharrison2544 Wasnt it a Heartattack?

@nl3064

5 жыл бұрын

@@percuriosus2637 Yes, but clearly he's being facetious. He's saying Peckinpah drank and coke'd himself to death. His lifestyle caused his heart to give out. Fun Fact: his coke habit got so bad that at one point Peckinpah went down to Colombia (under the pretext of scouting for a movie) to try to establish his own coke connection with a Cartel - an endeavor that failed miserably.

@mannyv3212

4 жыл бұрын

Ah a man of culture. You're absolutely right Super Hero movies are shit.

This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.

@RobinSchoutenRS

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure that the master is missing? its not in the BBC archives? And what's the name of Barry Norman's film programme?

Sam Peckinpah talks like a character in a Sam Peckinpah movie

I love a lot of what he said here. His views on war and the solution was brilliant! What he said about Always surrounding yourself with people who know more, great advice.

this is one the best interviews I have seen. I love Sam's je ne sais quo. This is a masterclass.

Here, Barry is dealing with a US Marine and WW2 Vet. I knew many as a kid, and every last fucking one of them kept a bottle of lightning within easy reach. When they spoke, they didn't mince words.

@thekillingfieldsable

7 жыл бұрын

RW4X4X3006 They all earned that right.

Great director

God I love this guy.

Two film makes who have a debt of influence too Don Siegel. Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood. Three of my favourite film makers and all proper, proper men.

Best Director of all time!

"I cannot compete wth the news." Amen. This interviewer is just out to humiliate his subject.

@andipandi5641

4 жыл бұрын

no .. got that wrong.. this is the BBC.. they ask everyone challenging questions in order to bring out the best in them .. would not have spent so much time with the guy - if they did not so much respect him.. BBC would have treated Dennis Potter just the same - the man who they paid to write their best TV plays of the time..

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

@@andipandi5641 your faith in the BBC is touching and misplaced.

@andipandi5641

2 жыл бұрын

@@plasticweapon BBC has gone terribly down hill since then - now too often most concerned to chase the rating and to avoid upsetting anyone with any power and influence..

My last name is Peckinpah, this is one of the only people that I respect in my lineage.

wow!!! just awesome!!

This is amazing. Thank you.

First time I have ever heard his voice... I always imagined him having a southern or Texas accent, kinda like L.Q. Jones or Warren Oates.

@baboon9er

8 жыл бұрын

+monksally He was from Bakersfield, California I think

@Madbandit77

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Wulfsohn He was born in Fresno, CA.

Peckinpah is only around 52 years old here. I thought he was in his 60s, turns out he died at 59

Pure Peckinpah, a sheer masterclass of a man, and a grandmaster of American cinema, period. The man even sounds like he's seen it and done it all, very calm, cool and collected, with an inflection you just don't hear in American men anymore.

I wonder what the people who used to complain about the violence in Peckinpah´s films think about the violence in today´s movies, which is far worse in my opinion

@jorgepalomares8025

7 жыл бұрын

davyjones2001 far more and not poetic at all like it used to be

@elboscohieronymusbosch370

5 жыл бұрын

Worst and cheaper nowadays

@Hugh_Morris

5 жыл бұрын

Far worse and with much less style

I think he was a super screwed up person... had a butt-load of problems and addictions -- very abused, abusive and jagged. But that said, GOD HIS FUCKING MOVIES WERE GOOD.

Amazing video! I don't know where you found it but thanks for the upload.

I adore this man’s films what a guy ❤

brutal, uncompromising, honest

"I must say, BBC coffee never looked so good." lol

Many classics from this Amazing Director with the Wild Bunch being an all time Classic , the only way you can take violence out of the cinema is to ban it , But how can you make a picture about a violent happening without depicting it ...R.I.P. Sam Peckinpah , how I would love to see all the uncut versions of these masterpieces .

A true artist. His movies will still be masterpierces

Ride the High Country is a underrated western classic! Too bad John Wayne never worked with him.

@RW4X4X3006

2 жыл бұрын

Peckinpah would have taken Wayne in a direction that would have made The Searchers look like a Sunday picnic. Wayne would have probably liked the idea as an actor, but he had an image to maintain, regarding his own productions.

@elldre3

2 жыл бұрын

'You always knew better. You just forgot for a little while.' Peckinpah also knew how to write dialogue to accompany his films.

Brilliant answers, 10/10 :)

Thank you so much for this! Aside from the little segment in the Hollywood Mavericks documentary,this is the first interview I've seen with this genius.Are there more out there? I've read tons of interviews with him but only seen this one.Thanks again!

Interesting that he was willing to criticize his use of violence. Quite a bit different than Tarantino's handling of this ...

He died the year I was born. I must admit that I enjoyed a few of his movies too bad he died a bit young he could've made more movies

Tarantino modeled himself on Peckinpah, but Peckinpah was attempting to recreate reality. Tarantino just thinks like a child. I studied media violence, these journalists dont. Violent society doesn't come from movies. Only video games can increase the likelihood of violence. He's correct, the news is much more dangerous: it frames rare narratives as commonplace; it repeats without your consent and it seeks to sell the 'cinematic nature' of the act. Cross of Iron ended like Scorsese's Last Temptation. Ran out of film and made the ending stronger.

@THEBANDIT7979

3 жыл бұрын

Lee Lorenz Tarantino is an exploitation film maker the type of people Sam hated. Reservoir dogs is the best film Tarantino has done and that film has Sam all over it.

@mrblobby7864

2 жыл бұрын

Video games don't cause violence either.

Looking at the violence in Alfredo, it is hard to see what all the fuss was about. There is so much more violence on TV and in films these days. All I see is great tension and well-composed shots.

@trenttrip6205

Жыл бұрын

far more artistic and interesting than most violence today too

As a film buff for four plus decades his films are quite mesmerising and they have undoubtedly aged well, some people crave pat answers and a feel good sense leaving the cinema Sam didn't or couldn't do that and many of todays great directors cite him as an important inspiration also he was a soldier who saw real violence in action and its disturbing effects on people then he portrayed that in his work and he was described as weirdo glorifying violence.....go figure.

When men were men. Intellectual but not snobby. Just smart and experienced. No bullshit.

Hello Koyaanisqatsi, where have you find this rare television interview of Peckinpah? And do you have more footage of Sam?

Could you imagine what kind of films Sam could make in THIS century? Whew!

Good interview. Sure, Barry Norman dwelt on the violence for more, than might have been necessary. But when Peckinpah spoke, he shut up and listened. So seems he was not a fan of The Texas Chainsaw Masacare. He obviously likes to take the piss too. He had me laughing on his description of the filming of Cross of Iron.

Truth be told with regards to violence in films that the late Sam Peckinpah showed in some of his films and in some cases scenes that are disturbing, these stories or films were warned by the producers and film-maker alike that they would be violent so that should not be a surprise. Sometimes the audience and critics remind me of those that see a train crash about to happen , yet don't look away and it haunts them forever when they should have not looked in the first place. Now as an artist that wants to make a point at a certain time in his story telling and really wants to hit home the point of the ugliness of violence and the ugliness of mankind, he shows it in a manner that he feels will be effective enough to back that point up. Many that do not like this type of show, will always say it is sensationalism, but that is complete nonsense, the new age horrors are like that as well as any action film where there are are chase scene and an innocent passer-by gets shot in his head to the amusement of the audience, or Torrentino's over use of blood in his films are sensationalism, Peckinpah's use of violence is just as justified is often not talked lovely beautiful moments between the two main characters in Ballad of Cable Hogue as well as the main characters and their wonderful family moments in Junior Bonner are justified.

Sam Pinckinpah's masterpiece scene is the one where the love between Doc and his wife is reborn from the ashes, in the middle of the garbage. (The getaway Mc Queen ft Ali Mc Graw)... No one! Not even Kubrick, has produced such an allegory

Great Director but shocked at how all the alcohol and drugs made him look 20 years older than 51.

10:26 preach my humble brother

"Who is 'THEY' to tell me what I can or can't do?" -Quentin Tarantino in regards to his film Django Unchained. "The version of the film that got released is the tame version. There was a lot of even worse stuff that got cut out of it that we couldn't show" - Sam Jack on his role in Django Unchained, or something like that.

Pre Scorsese Peckinpah was god of film making

@robzilla730

6 жыл бұрын

Nial Westwood agreed. Better than Leone IMO

@Tony-hu7uk

9 ай бұрын

Scorsese should not be in the same sentence with Peckinpah!

Anyone know what film he was referring to towards the end when he said he believed it could be his best?

@irish66

Жыл бұрын

Convoy?. Which I found quiet disappointing.

Sam Peckinpah was a genius, and The Wild Bunch is one of the best Westerns ever made. What show is this, by the way?

@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198

2 жыл бұрын

This Barry Norman interview is from a twice weekly film slot on a now defunct nightly BBC2 TV series which preceded Newsnight's succession in the very same slot on BBC 2 around 10.30pm - the short lived revived Tonight series. The master is missing. This is off a VHS or Betamax domestic tape. Well done for whoever has this tape? As its the only copy in existence. The reason this chat was curtailed when it was when Sam Peckinpah says at the end, "Don't Stop!" was because IT WAS LIVE-TO-AIR. Quite an amazing interview. I saw it when it went out as a riveted teenager, hanging on to every jaw dropping word! Never equalled nor matched. A rare glimpse into the mind of the great man.

If only Peckinpah could have made Under the Volcano and not John Huston. And with Richard Burton and not Albert Finney.

This director is the reason I call Quentin Tarantino a fanboy director . Sam Peckinpah is the real deal .

García, not Garthía.

Last word: I can't compete with The News.

Anybody else feel like Peckinpah would be a really cool first name for someone to have?

@j.b.9260

5 жыл бұрын

Should I ever have a son, I'll name him Peckinpah Hamill.

There will always be violence in this world and you cannot blame works of art that show violence honestly, and how painful and tragic it is, for violence supposedly caused in its name. If that were so, let's burn all the Bible's, ban Shakespeare, Bull fighting, boxing, etc. By repressing something and showing a lie, you do more damage than if you show the truth. (Of course, there are movies that celebrate violence, but they're so badly made and obviously trash that they usually disappear very quickly, and cannot be compared to a film by Peckinpah or Scorsese.)

5:35 "I was wrong." 18:00 "That's a bunch of shit."

Why Sam looked like he's 60 when he's just 50/51.

@MatimoreAgain

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same. Only 51yo, but looks like a senior citizen. I'm NOT knocking that at all, tho. In fact I am very attracted to men like this. It's just a testament of the hardcore life he lived.

@DreDaDon16

3 жыл бұрын

Alcohol and cocaine

Interesting that both Sam and Warren Oates lost their fathers at an early age.

Barry Norman was out his depth here, he did seem to waffle on a bit, thinking back.

A wise man.

Sam is god.

Tarantino Scorsese all faced the same. Prat reviewers lauding Shakespeare and conveniently forgetting the violence in his plays

18:00

Great man! But was this January 12 or December 1? Thanks a billion for posting this gem!

@HAUNUI3

9 жыл бұрын

Vebinz 1st December of 1976. You're welcome!

@Vebinz

9 жыл бұрын

HAUNUI3 Thank you. I am always confused about numeric dates convention.

-I canot compete with the news- end of the stoy about Sam endorsin violence. It´s as funny as sad how naive we still are as a society. Not ready for mature lectures of the reality, of the real world, even through artistic ways, even nowadays...

you bloody 'Bloody Sam'

Barry Norman if placed in - at least - the present and the last 30 years. Would be thought of as out of touch...or an idiot. He was always one to play it safe.

You can tell how fed up he was of being asked the same surface level impersonal questions. He also looks like he's trying to sober up hard.

3:20 - Too bad to hear him trash Texas Chainsaw Massacre and not understanding it's a great film.

@Hollowshape

3 ай бұрын

He probably didn’t see it

@alantracy6757

11 күн бұрын

Compared to the meaning in his films Texas chainsaw is a porntypethingee

Nobody was better than sam

Moving movies so

どなたか 日本語スーパーを入れてくださるとうれしいです。

The Quentin Tarantino of the 60s and 70s

I am scottish, i walked into a bar bought a drink and went to sit down, i guy was sitting , i said ok pal, he said don't ok me or i will take you outside, so i went and sat elsewhere, he comes over to me again and asks me to go outside, i said to him if you dont go away i am going to fucking hurt you right where you stand, the coward went away and i sat down and had my drink, the moral of this story, do not fuck with me or anyone like me, we don't do walking away from arseholes who think they are tough guys, but are really little boys playing at being bullies, but not prepared to take the consequences when presented to them in harsh reality

@irish66

Жыл бұрын

Huh?

yes He said "Don't stop," my god it was about to get very interesting, but that is where the J overseer had to cut it.

@irish66

Жыл бұрын

or was he being sarcastic?

@cwanderson2087

Жыл бұрын

maybe he was.

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