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Bonnie Clyde - 40th Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1967]
enlarge	Director: Arthur Penn Actors: Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£16.99~~ Buy New: £3.67 as of 22/11/2009 22:58 GMT details You Save: £13.32 (78%) New (13) from £3.67 Seller: a_bargain_book Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 14090 Format: PAL, Widescreen Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 106 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321902167985 ASIN: B000YQ8TTO Theatrical Release Date: 1967 Release Date: May 5, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: One of the landmark films of the 1960s, iBonnie and Clyde/i changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance". The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) and their faithful accomplice C W Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews: The most important movie ever made May 10, 2008 Brendan O. Clarke (Edinburgh) 6 out of 8 found this review helpful This Arthur Penn (father of actors Sean Chris Penn) movie is one of the landmark films of the 20th Century, as it changed the course of American cinema forever. Having watched this classic again recently, I was struck at how brilliant the supporting actors are (Gene Hackman, M.J. Pollard, Estelle Parsons, Charlie Richard Pryor)- a surrogate family that made the film swing outside its frontline as well as tweaking the Hollywood rulebook. br / br / br /Though Warner Bros had dumped the film in 1967, star Warren Beatty badgered the studio into a second release. Bonnie and Clyde then grossed over $20 million at the USA box office, landing on the cover of Time as the harbinger of the "New Cinema". Heavily influenced by the European art movies of the early 1960s, writers Robert Benton and David Newman intended to make a revisionist gangster movie in the spirit of the French New Wave; the film openly sympathised with its glamorous gangsters, who became analogues of hip 1960s counter-culture protestors, and its tone veered unexpectedly between slapstick comedy and serious consequences, galling more conventional critics who wanted the film to enforce a clear morality. br / br / br /Faye Dunaway's strong-willed Bonnie and Beatty's impotent Clyde were hardly a traditional couple, and their gory demise in rapid-fire, slow motion montage went far beyond previous Hollywood bloodshed. Nominated for ten Oscars including Best Picture, Bonnie and Clyde only two awards. The impact of its violence and youth appeal was confirmed by the ensuing success of The Wild Bunch 1969, while outlaw couple films from Badlands (1973) to Thelma and Louise (1991) have ensured its continuing legacy. br / br /This movie ignited critics and the public alike when it was first released in theatres. Much discussion centered around the movie's graphic violence (which was considered shocking by 1967 standards --- two years later "The Wild Bunch" would raise the ante even higher); there was also considerable hullaballoo over the film's glamorisation of its lawless true-life anti-heroes (which was in fact an old Hollywood tradition best exemplified by a handful of late 1930's and early 1940's biographical Westerns including "Jesse James", "Belle Starr", "Billy the Kid", etc. in which beautiful actors portrayed the murderous title characters as Technicolored lads and ladies). Pure blinding genuis. br / br /10/10. glorifying violence within a moral dilemma June 1, 2009 Dr. U. L. Khawaja (hornchurch ,london) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Texas is such a masochistic violent and volatile land ,that to fuel it 's heritage with such a charismatic account of ordinary criminals is rather malicious but ARTHUR PENN has taken spurious legendary villains and made them into icons in a frenzy of tragic moral innuendo which redeems his movie . br / br /The commoners in Texas definitely do not attire as stylishly as these the two desperado lovers in the style set by dietrich and fairbanks as french haute couture and texans don't talk like trotsky too,but the guns battles and the laws this couple mock spare no one ,mostly the law enforcers while the innocent people are largely reprieved and Penn takes a macabre gory delight in staging his violent gun orgies with the texan state rangers . br / br /This is the mother of gang genre and celebration of violent spectacle and it reflects on the vestiges of Vietnam ,maybe the success of the venture was secondary to the thirst for bringing the violence to home states in the form of romanticism as Robin hood prototypes . br / br /The performances ,technical finesse along with production design is immaculate if inappropriate ,but as for authenticity -Terence Mallicks 1975 Badlands beats the movie by far . br / br /The serial killing hedonistic hetero sexual couple here were rather ordinary though gorgeous to look at ,the antique cars are a treat to look at as are the somewhat vapid talents of beatty ,but he is a very personable young man and has a certain charm ,though i am sure clyde was rather an ordinary fellow,but then history is never interesting till romanticised and this is more romance with violence galore then an authenticated historical account ,though Faye Dunaway is great as Bonnie . br / br / I don't think an accurate aesthetic version will ever be made,as today cinema has degenerated further into desperately gory movie clones with a mundane ambiguous immorality which some worship at the pulpit of tasteless vulgarity overblown by insipid characters played by mediocre stars . br /This is vintage wine though made in Texan wasteland and Dunaway and Beatty do have delightful chemistry,even though the rest of the cast is perfunctory except Gene Hackman who is one of the quartet of the robbers essaying a loud mouthed man with a simplistic soul . br / br /Glorifying violence is inappropriate but this is rather very affectively morbid and depressing but harrowing which highlights it's moral dilemma and becomes a significant debate on popular art and the treatise of existential philosophy . br / br / br / A True Classic April 16, 2009 Iain Summers 1 out of 1 found this review helpful From the start this movie promises something special, staying faithful to the true "legend" the performances are all pitched perfectly. With Estelle Parsons just inching it as Blanche Barrow, Clyde's sister-in-law who originally committed the story to paper in her prison cell. br /Bought out of curiosity, as I remembered seeing the movie on TV years ago, I was riveted by the style; expert direction and stunning camerawork which truly evoke the depression era. br /All this and the definitive version of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Banjomeister Earl Scruggs. br /Feeling fresher than films made in more recent times, any fan of Tarantino will come away from this movie the richer for the experience. br /

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