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DVD Tuesday: Bonnie and Clyde, celebrity outlaws extraordinaire! | Ask FlickChick | 3/25/2008
DVD Tuesday: Bonnie and Clyde – The wild, the beautiful and the damned come to DVD in a new deluxe edition.It's hard to look at Bonnie and Clyde (1967) today and understand what a visceral shock it was in 1967: We've had 40 years to get used to sympathetic killers, abrupt shifts in tone and serious violence: The road to Natural Born Killers (1994) started with Bonnie and Clyde. And frankly, Bonnie and Clyde is a great movie that holds up four decades later.Directed by Arthur Penn and written by Robert Benton and David Newman, the film's inspiration was the exploits of Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway), Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and their gang, makeshift gang, which consisted of Clyde's Brother and sister-in-law (Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons), and teenager W. D. Jones. The film's C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard) stands in for Jones who was, unlike the rest of the gang, still alive when Bonnie and Clyde was made; he still sued Warner Bros. for invasion of... read more

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Title	Year	Type
Edge of Outside (Remarks by)	2006	TV Show Series
Inside (Director)	1996	Movie
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Actor)	1995	Movie
Lumiere Et Compagnie (Director)	1995	Movie
Naked In New York (Actor - Himself)	1994	Movie