Arthur Penn
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Oct 1, 2026
Matt DonnellyHOST
And there's one of him, he's like the director, and his thought bubble says like, "I wonder how I can bring this visceral piece of art to life for people to really relate to." And then, and the next one it shows the producers, and the thought bubble says, "I am the director." [laughs]
Penn JilletteHOST
[laughs] Well, Arthur Penn, you know, the great director.
Matt DonnellyHOST
Yeah.
Penn JilletteHOST
I think I've told this joke before.
Brian ScottHOST
The production went to war with itself.
Brian ScottHOST
Arthur Penn left.
Brian ScottHOST
Ken Russell took over.
Brian ScottHOST
Chayefsky fought his director over everything, including, by Russell's own account, the color of the paint on the isolation tank.
Nancy NovackGUEST
She was moving, making the leap from assistant to edit.
Nancy NovackGUEST
And she had been an assistant editor on Hannah and Her Sisters and two other Woody Allen films and on a couple of Arthur Penn films, and she was really kind, and I said, "Okay." So I had an arrangement where I worked in the mornings for her.
Nancy NovackGUEST
I'd come in really early.
Nancy NovackGUEST
She taught me what I needed to do.
Nancy NovackGUEST
She was moving, making the leap from assistant to edit.
Nancy NovackGUEST
And she had been an assistant editor on Hannah and Her Sisters and two other Woody Allen films and on a couple of Arthur Penn films.
Nancy NovackGUEST
And she was really kind.
Nancy NovackGUEST
And I said, okay.
Jakub FlaszHOST
So I'm of two minds because I like the vibe.
Jakub FlaszHOST
I like the sort of the setting of that or the ambition to borrow wholesale from classics of the genre or maybe even borrow from people like Arthur Penn with Bonnie and Clyde and this of the ideas of these sort of weirdly romanticized outlaws and having to confront that sort of lifestyle and put them to bed.
Jakub FlaszHOST
But I don't know whether I can...
Jakub FlaszHOST
For a lot of people, this remains like an example of an excellent Walter Hill film.
Michael BiehnHOST
I've always, he's been on the same side as I have been, so, you know.
Michael BiehnHOST
But his father was Arthur Penn, the director, correct? Yeah.
Michael BiehnHOST
Is that right? No, no.
Michael BiehnHOST
His father was a
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
Okay.
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
To the point where I've seen Arthur Penn's film a few times.
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
Would you be
Amanda Jane SternHOST
surprised to know that this is more factually accurate than that is?
16 MINS LATER
Amanda Jane SternHOST
There is justification for, for what they did, even if the ends don't justify the means.
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
That's an interesting point.
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
And I think also maybe just familiarity with the story in terms of like Arthur Penn's movie being most people's initial exposure to the story.
Jarrod HornbeckGUEST
I think it's been told in so many different variations or been scrutinized and dissected so much over the 45, 46 years then between Arthur Penn's movie and this movie.
Bob BookHOST
They went and tried to recruit Godard to come direct it.
Bob BookHOST
They screwed that up, and so it kind of kicked around a bunch of directors before they landed on Arthur Penn.
Bob BookHOST
I think for me, it's seeing those techniques kind of first get applied in America.
Bob BookHOST
And it's not just like, oh, it's cool that it's French New Wave.
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Brad GHOST
good actor.
Brad GHOST
I think he was incredible.
Brad GHOST
I think that he does everything that Arthur Penn asks of him and a little bit more.
Brad GHOST
The scenes where he is... off guard and he's like kind of relaxing a little bit you kind of see the simplicity in his eyes and the inability to really look beyond the current moment but then the overacting that he gets when he's on a heist on a robbery or he's like trying to declare his love to fade down away like It's overacting, but it's utilized in just the perfect way to make like a really convincing character.
Theresa BuchheisterHOST
It took a gigantic step up from what noir had been.
Theresa BuchheisterHOST
Noirs are great, but this went, Arthur Penn, director.
Doug WeaverHOST
And then my last one, oh, it's so hard to choose.
Doug WeaverHOST
I'm going to say Sexy Beast.
AdelaideHOST
It was being marketed towards American audiences now, and that just would have been too much for them.
AdelaideHOST
Arthur Penn, who had previously been nominated for Best Director for The Miracle Worker of 1962, after winning a Tony for directing it on stage in 1960, was chosen to direct the film.
AdelaideHOST
The exact same career trajectory is what happens with Mike Nichols this year with The Graduate, where he makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which he also directed on stage and won a Tony for, and then he does The Graduate, which is an incredibly revolutionary new wave film.
AdelaideHOST
It's interesting that both of these directors started out in theater.
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AdelaideHOST
Years from now, it is quite possible that Bonnie and Clyde will be seen as the definitive film from the 1960s.
AdelaideHOST
So again, Roger Ebert on the right side of history.
AdelaideHOST
Arthur Penn said, quote, Time Magazine said we used money from the wrong era.
AdelaideHOST
He's referencing the actual bank notes that they were stealing from the prop money.
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