Arthur PEN

Arthur PEN is an American realizer born the September 27th 1922 with Philadelphia.

Biography

It is with the Theaters of the Armies, during its national service, that Arthur PEN makes its first weapons of director, activity which will bring it until Broadway. The many parts which it assembles meet quickly of success and it passes to the realization in 1958 with the Left-handed person ( The Left Handed Gun ) interpreted by Paul Newman, then beginning. Impassioned intellectual of European cinema, PEN is generation of the scenario writers in total rupture with the Hollywood of antan, preaching a revival of the cinema, speech close to that of the New wave in France.

He carries out thereafter Miracle in Alabama ( The Miracle Worker ) which he had previously put in scene at Broadway, then, in 1965, Mickey One interpreted by a young first: Warren Beatty. This last, once become high-speed motorboat, requests it to carry out the adaptation of the adventures of Bonnie and Clyde . PEN accepts well that it left nauseated experiment the pitiless Continuation ( The Chase ), sabotaged by its producer Sam Spiegel. Beatty, in addition to producing this project which is due to him in heart, plays there the part of Clyde Barrow. He sees of an evil eye certain aspects of the scenario which shows the character of impotent Barrow and is hardly shown convinced by its partner, the young person Faye Dunaway. The film is despite everything a success with the boxoffice and makes it possible PEN to approach a large production, Little Big Man , picaresque epopee interpreted by Dustin Hoffman. It carries out then the Running away ( Night Moves , 1975) then Missouri Breaks (1976) and knows a creative decline in the Eighties.

PEN does not remain about it less one of the most subversive scenario writers and most endowed with its generation, having insufflated with the American cinema a faster and nervous rate/rhythm, as a virtuoso of the assembly which it is and which one could bring closer in that to a Sam Peckinpah. Director of actor inspired, PEN is also a skilful technician and the attentive visionnage of its films unquestionably testifies some.

Catalog of films

Received prices

  • Bear of gold (Goldener Ehrenbär) on a purely honorary basis with the Berlinale 2007, for the whole of its career

See too

  • Arthur PEN on IMDb
  • an article of www.sensesofcinema.com

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