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and the CrusadersPenn & Teller Get Killed (1989)Arthur Penn
“Commie bastard! I’ll show you distribution of wealth!”
The career of Arthur Penn reads like the perfect snap-shot for every major American film movement of the last 50 years. You’ve got The Miracle Worker, which embodies classic Hollywood acting at its finest; Alice’s Restaurant, which embarked on the late 60s counterculture so popular with Hollywood at
the time without actually, ya know, being pandering to the masses; Little Big Man, which helped a dying genre, the Western, reach its revisionist period, helping break down the myths to reach a reflective end; and even Night Moves, which had the gritty 70s crime imprint all over it. Oh, and who could forget one of the most influential American films of all time, the film that arguably ushered in modern film violence, Bonnie and Clyde?
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[SOURCE] For Saturday’s BDSSP show, Penn & Teller were the magical guests. Here Teller is being walked in by two of the calendar girls with his loquacious partner watching the show.
“Commie bastard! I’ll show you distribution of wealth!”
The career of Arthur Penn reads like the perfect snap-shot for every major American film movement of the last 50 years. You’ve got The Miracle Worker, which embodies classic Hollywood acting at its finest; Alice’s Restaurant, which embarked on the late 60s counterculture so popular with Hollywood at
the time without actually, ya know, being pandering to the masses; Little Big Man, which helped a dying genre, the Western, reach its revisionist period, helping break down the myths to reach a reflective end; and even Night Moves, which had the gritty 70s crime imprint all over it. Oh, and who could forget one of the most influential American films of all time, the film that arguably ushered in modern film violence, Bonnie and Clyde?
-- and --[SOURCE] For Saturday’s BDSSP show, Penn & Teller were the magical guests. Here Teller is being walked in by two of the calendar girls with his loquacious partner watching the show.
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