BONNIE AND CLYDE
ARTHUR PENN | USA | 1967 | 111 MIN | R | ENGLISH
New Hollywood was ushered in with a bang, and some sex, when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took on the roles of the eponymous, free-wheeling bank robbers that would come to define an era.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Part of the Philadelphia Film Society’s AP Bio series.
No late night study sessions or textbooks needed for these adventurous films that forego the standard, Oscar-baity practices synonymous with the cinematic biopic tradition for more imaginative, unique, and illuminating interpretations of life.