These notes accompany screenings of Arthur Penn’s </em>Bonnie and Clyde</a> on April 9, 10, and 11 in Theater 2.</p>
In some ways Bonnie and Clyde was a startling revelation that might be considered the beginning of modern American cinema. Its graphic violence (and a certain candor about sex) was the immediate sensation, but it also led to a cinema that fundamentally questions basic American conservative values and capitalism itself.

Posts tagged ‘Arthur Penn’
April 8, 2014
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An Auteurist History of Film
Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde
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