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Posted by Gee LP (A) on October 19, 2005 at 07:34:23

In Reply to: What ado YOU thinking? Does a " good " director always----- posted by patrickU on October 19, 2005 at 04:24:07:

For example, look at Peckinpah's later work...low budgets, bad scripts, mis-cast actors...and a director addled by alcohol and drugs and sour rage...yet still lit by that "film sense" you speak of...that intrinsic quality that makes even the worst hash by a great film director worth a look. To paraphrase James Agee, I'll take the worst by a great director over the best by the hacks any day.

Even in an awful film like "Convoy", there are the breath-taking shots of the big rigs moving across the desert at the bottom of the frame, with the blue sky filling up the rest of the frame...the sad-eyed Cassie Yates...and the fight in the diner that hints for just a moment at what Peckinpah can do with action.