Had to take a month off while I moved across country, but I’m back extolling the true classics with a still-controversial favorite:

“Some day they’ll go down together; / They’ll bury them side-by-side; /

To few it’ll be grief - / To the law a relief -

But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.”

– Bonnie Parker, 1934

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

running time: 1 hr., 51 m. / original studio: Warner Brothers / original rating: M

produced by Warren Beatty; directed by Arthur Penn; screenplay by David Newman & Robert Benton; director of photography, Burnett Guffey; edited by Dede Allen; music by Charles Strouse

with: Warren Beatty (Clyde Barrow), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie Parker), Michael J. Pollard (C.W. Moss), Gene Hackman (Buck Barrow), Estelle Parsons (Blanche)

One of the most important and influential films ever made, Bonnie and Clyde forms a locus in modern film history: it was intimately tied to the mid-sixties zeitgeist, by both caprice and design, and it was the decade’s most significant harbinger of a new era in American filmmaking, launching numerous great careers on both sides of the camera and transforming the visual language of Hollywood cinema. (more…)