It's been a strange and sad week for film-related deaths. Yesterday, Quentin Tarantino's long time collaborator, editor Sally Menke was found at the bottom of a ravine in Glen Oak Drive in Hollywood. At the moment, the suspicion is that she fell victim to Monday's heat wave in California (113 degrees), and at 56 Menke had a lot of life to live. Her influence on Tarantino's films is inestimable, and I'm very curious to see what his next film looks like.
At 88 years of age, perhaps it's not as big of a shock to hear director Arthur Penn passed, but his impact on the "new Hollywood" in the late sixties and early seventies bears mentioning. While Penn was 45 when he made Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, its violence and unorthodox editing style (particularly for a major Hollywood studio film) paved the way for the "next generation" to bring independent spirit to the masses for the next ten years.
Today I'll share two videos related to Menke and Penn.
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Our first video is one of many you can find on Quentin Tarantino DVDs. During filming, he would ask almost every cast member to say "hi" to Sally at some point. This collection comes from the filming of Death Proof.
Our second video is not from Bonnie and Clyde. I considered it, but since just about every media outlet immediately gravitates towards the film (and it's pretty easy to find the ending on YouTube), I thought it would be more fun to share some of Alice's Restaurant, another Arthur Penn film.
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