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Les Chiens de Paille, 1971

David Sumner, jeune mathématicien américain, vient habiter avec sa femme britannique Amy dans l'arrière-pays anglais, dans le petit village de Wakely dans les Cornouailles. David souhaite y travailler au calme, pour se concentrer sur ses recherches sur la structure stellaire et les mathématiques appliquées. Son arrivée n'est pas du goût de Charlie Venner, ex-petit ami d'Amy. Lui et ses amis Norman Scutt, Chris Cawsey et Phil Riddaway voient d'un mauvais œil qu'un étranger ait épousé l'un des leurs. David engage de jeunes ouvriers du village pour réparer la ferme, qui appartenait au père d'Amy. Les ouvriers, Scutt et Cawsey, finissent par tourmenter le couple non violent. Ces agressions s'intensifient lorsqu'ils attaquent la ferme après que David a pris la défense d'Henry Niles, l'idiot du village, accusé de meurtre. David met toute son intelligence au service de sa survie. Retranché dans la ferme, il élabore des pièges qui font de lui l’égal de ses assaillants.

Un film remarquable, réalisé avec brio et efficacité par un Peckinpah au sommet de son art. Le cinéaste délivre une oeuvre sans autre issue que celle empruntée, par la violence. Une violence fragile, crispée, que l'on devine délicate à mettre en place, dû notamment à la situation banale à laquelle est confronté notre couple. Dans cette enfer quotidien, Dustin Hoffman nous gratifie d'une interprétation juste et spontanée. Il ne triche pas avec les émotions et s'élance dans l'oeuvre, avec plaisir et dynamisme. Peckinpah, filme de manière très particulière, offrant, entre ralentis et plans désaxés, un intimisme au sein du couple, d'une rare qualité. Un grand film, dominé par une histoire troublante et fasciante, qui chavire dans le cauchemar, en titillant la folie du bout des doigts. Peckinpah montre, ou dénonce la violence dans toute sa noirceur, la rendant quotidienne, fragile. Comme pour signifier qu'il est si facile de basculer, lorsque le mal atteint notre quotidien, ou franchit le pas de notre porte. D'une histoire d'amour tendre et émouvante, le cinéaste rend une copie noire et brute de l'espèce humaine. Avec un pessimisme certain, mais distancié, Peckinpah frôle et heurte les esprits, en créant une oeuvre culte, d'une rare intensité, parfaitement orchestrée.

Un chef d'oeuvre dans toute sa splendeur.

STRAW DOGS - Trailer - (1971)

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lamiaprigione · 1 year

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Straw Dogs (1971)

#film #movie #straw dogs #cane di paglia #Sam Peckinpah #The Siege of Trencher's Farm #Gordon Williams #Tao Te Ching #John Coquillon #Dustin Hoffman #Susan George

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fuori-orario-film-posts · 6 months

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Cane di paglia (Straw Dogs) è un film del 1971 diretto da Sam Peckinpah, tratto dal romanzo The Siege of Trencher's Farm di Gordon M. Williams.

#dustin hoffman #sam peckinpah #susan george #straw dogs #fuoriorario #film #fuori orario #70s movies

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kinonostalgie · 1 year

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Straw Dogs (1971).

Straw Dogs is a psychological thriller, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm.

The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and a "complicated" rape scene. Released theatrically the same year as A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection and Dirty Harry, the film sparked heated controversy over the perceived increase of violence in cinema. However, Straw Dogs is still considered by many to be one of Peckinpah's greatest films. A remake was released in 2011 and it is a very pale "imitator" of its predecessor!

David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy (Susan George), an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. It is there that David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie (Del Henney). Eventually the taunts escalate and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes the shockingly violent side of David!

The violence of the original piece was interpreted in disparate ways by both critics and the movie going public. Many critics saw an endorsement of violence as redemption and the film as a fascist celebration of violence and vigilantism. Others saw it as anti-violence, noting the bleak ending consequent to the violence. Dustin Hoffman viewed his character as deliberately, yet subconsciously, provoking the violence, his concluding homicidal rampage being the emergence of his true self; this view was not shared by director Sam Peckinpah!

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ceteradesunt · 3 years

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Straw Dogs (1971) dir. Sam Peckinpah

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thebookofthefilm · 5 years

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First published by Secker & Warburg in 1969, this Mayflower reissue of The Siege Of Trencher's Farm was released in 1971. It advertises the forthcoming film adaptation from Sam Peckinpah - subsequent reissues went by the films title, Straw Dogs.

#the siege of trencher's farm #straw dogs #gordon williams #mayflower #secker & warburg #1971 #thebookofthefilm

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slimkhezri · 4 years

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📺🎞 #LateNightCinema #classic Watching “Straw Dogs“, a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. The film's title derives from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference. The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and two complicated rape scenes, which were subject to censorship by numerous film rating boards. Released theatrically in the same year as A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, and Dirty Harry, the film sparked heated controversy over a perceived increase of violence in films generally. Plot: David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy (Susan George), an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie (Del Henney). Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David. #thriller #psychologicalthriller #film #drama #dustinhoffman #strawdogs #sampeckinpah #hollywoodclassics #susangeorge #violentfilm #criterioncollection #delhenney @criterioncollection @dustinhoffmanofficial (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_UWLoFpRNx/?igshid=bghrlqmua1hj

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brokehorrorfan · 7 years

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Straw Dogs will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 27 via The Criterion Collection. The controversial 1971 thriller has been newly restored in 4K and includes the uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

The film is directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch). He co-wrote the script with David Zelag Goodman (Logan's Run), based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. Dustin Hoffman and Susan George star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies author Stephen Prince (2003)

Mantrap: Straw Dogs - The Final Cut - Making-of documentary with cast and crew (2003)

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron - Documentary featuring actors Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ali MacGraw, and more (1993)

Conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode, who worked as one of the editors on the film (new)

Interview with film scholar Linda Williams about the controversies surrounding the film (new)

Archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons

Behind-the-scenes footage

TV spots and trailers

Essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover

In this thriller, arguably Sam Peckinpah’s most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah’s world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he’ll go to protect his home—culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind’s eloquent and bloody vision of humanity.

#straw dogs #dustin hoffman #susan george #sam peckinpah #criterion collection #gift

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wecappdac · 7 years

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The Siege of Trenchers Farm - Straw Dogs

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nofomoartworld · 7 years

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Arthur Szyk, “Murder Incorporated: Hirohito, Hitlerhito, Benito” (December 1941), watercolor and gouache on paper, Harlan Crow Library, Dallas, Texas (courtesy New-York Historical Society)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

Charlottesville’s city council voted to shroud its statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in black fabric following the murder of anti-fascist campaigner Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally. Confederate memorials were recently removed from the University of Texas, Woodlawn Cemetery at West Palm Beach, a public park in Helena, Montana, and various locations throughout New York City. The Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, announced its willingness to take any Confederate memorials removed by “any city or jurisdiction” across the US.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump declined to attend the upcoming annual Kennedy Center Honors in “order to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” according to a press statement from the White House. Honorees Carmen de Lavallade and Norman Lear both stated that they planned to boycott the event.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, published a statement in the wake of the deadly clashes at Charlottesville, reiterating the museum’s mission “of bringing history — with all of its pain and its promise — front and center.” “It is not surprising … to find that the dedication of Confederate monuments spiked in two distinct time periods,” Bunch’s statement reads. “The first encompassed the years when states were passing Jim Crow laws disenfranchising African Americans and the second corresponds to the modern civil rights movement. These monuments are symbols that tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed.”

All 17 private members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigned, condemning Trump’s “support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville.”

The Village Voice announced that it will end its print publication.

The New-York Historical Society announced an exhibition of over 40 works by illustrator and miniaturist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951). The Polish-Jewish artist is best known for his caricatures of the Nazis and the other Axis power leaders, many of which were commissioned as posters and pamphlets during World War II.

A visitor stepped on a horizontal pigment sculpture by Yves Klein at Theatre of the Void, an exhibition of the artist’s work at the BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Belgium. A similar incident took place at Nice’s Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain in April.

(via Twitter/@Bromtommig)

Islamic extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was held liable for €2.7 million (~$3.2 million) in damages by the International Criminal Court for the destruction of nine centuries-old mausoleums and the Sidi Yahia mosque in Timbuktu — the first such ruling by the court for an act of cultural destruction.

Kassel city councilman Thomas Materner, a member of the far-right party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), threatened to organize protests should the city acquire Olu Oguibe’s Documenta 14 art work, “Das Fremdlinge und Flüchtlinge” (“Monument for Strangers and Refugees”), an obelisk dedicated to refugees. Materner described the sculpture as “degenerate art,” a term used by the Nazis to characterize modernist art.

Cambridge University Press came under intense criticism for complying with a request from China to block access to over 300 articles from The China Quarterly. Access to the articles has since been reinstated according to an announcement by the Quarterly‘s editor, Tim Pringle.

Over 40 Portuguese photographers pledged to reject exhibition opportunities or funding from the Israeli state until the country “complies with international law and respects the human rights of Palestinians.”

The International Foundation for Art Research identified four fake Jackson Pollock paintings, each of which was attributed to the collection of the likely fictitious James Brennerman — an “insane recluse” who supposedly gave his collection away to his servants.

Richard Pearson, a con artist who forged works in the style of Norman Cornish (1919–2014), was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison. Pearson was ordered to pay a nominal sum of £1, a penalty that will increase should he come into possession of any new assets.

Two specialists verified a work by John Constable for the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? program. The show’s co-presenter, art dealer Philip Mould, previously owned the painting — then dismissed as a fake — but was unable to authenticate the work at the time.

A family damaged an 800-year-old coffin at the Prittlewell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, after lifting their child over it in order to pose for a photograph. According to the Guardian, the family left the museum without reporting the damage.

Transactions

Wifredo Lam, “Pleniluna” (undated), lithograph (courtesy Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU)

Univision Communications Inc. donated 57 artworks by 40 artists from Latin America and the United States to the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. The gift includes works by Cundo Bermudez, Coqui Calderon, Humberto Calzada, Antonia Guzman, Wifredo Lam, Rafael Soriano, and Fernando De Szyszlo.

The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation donated $120 million to establish a school of art at the University of Arkansas.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) exceeded its $200,000 fundraising goal to match a challenge grant for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, a fund dedicated to the purchase of contemporary art by African American artists.

The National Gallery in London acquired Bernardo Bellotto’s “The Fortress of Königstein from the North” (ca 1756–58) after an appeal raised £11.7 million (~$15 million) to save it from export.

Bernardo Bellotto, “The Fortress of Königstein from the North” (ca 1756–58), oil on canvas, 132.1 x 236.2 cm (© The National Gallery, London)

Transitions

The Baltimore Museum of Art appointed seven new members to its board of trustees: Heidi Berghuis, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Brooke Lierman, David H. Milton, Adam Pendleton, Scott Schelle, and Wilma Bulkin Siegel.

Viviana Bianchi was appointed executive director of the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Ruba Katrib was appointed curator of MoMA PS1.

June Yap was appointed director of curatorial, programs, and publications at the Singapore Art Museum.

Allegra Pesenti was appointed associate director and senior curator of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Jo Widoff and Lars Bang Larsen were appointed to Moderna Museet’s curatorial team.

The Museum of Modern Art appointed Rob Baker as director of marketing and creative strategy and Leah Dickerman as director of editorial and content strategy.

Jagdip Jagpal will succeed Neha Kirpal as director of the India Art fair.

The Main Museum in Downtown Los Angeles implemented bilingual exhibition labels, materials, and programming in English and Spanish.

Moniker International Art Fair will open its first New York edition in May 2018.

The world’s first Partition Museum opened in Amritsar, India.

The Equal Justice Initiative announced the construction of a museum in Montgomery dedicated to charting slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration.

Gallery 1957 opened a second space in Accra, Ghana.

Poster House, an institution dedicated to showcasing posters from around the world, will open at 119 West 23rd Street in New York — the former home of TekServe — late next year. A pop-up exhibition will open at the space on September 20.

Michael Halsband, poster for “Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings” (1985) (courtesy Poster House)

Accolades

Seitu Jones received the 2017 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award.

Obituaries

John Abercrombie (1944–2017), jazz guitarist.

Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), writer. Best known for his science-fiction work such as Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969).

Sonny Burgess (1929–2017), rockabilly singer.

Chiara Fumai (1978–2017), artist.

Janusz Glowacki (1938–2017), playwright.

Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017), artist.

Dick Gregory (1932–2017), satirist and activist.

Leo Hershkowitz (1924–2017), archivist and historian.

Masatoyo Kishi (1924–2017), abstract painter and sculptor.

Jerry Lewis (1926–2017), comedian, actor, and filmmaker.

M.T. Liggett (1930–2017), folk artist.

Ramon Boixados Malé (1927–2017), president of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.

Thomas Meehan (1929–2017), Broadway writer.

Stuart J. Thompson (1955-2017), Broadway producer and manager.

Gordon Williams (1934–2017), writer. Best known for The Siege of Trencher’s Farm (1971) and The Duellists (1977).

Sculptures by M.T. Liggett, Mullinville, Kansas (via Wikipedia)

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