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Another filmic ballad building up the myth of the last Hollywood desperado, Sam Peckinpah. This documentary is on a higher filmmaking level than Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron and, compared to Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade, focuses more on Peckinpah’s films, not exclusively on his westerns. Nevertheless, mostly the same people appear in all three works (Kristofferson again sings his mournful songs, L.Q. Jones again reminisces about legendary bouts of drinking) and the portrait of the rebel director remains the same. Peckinpah’s explosive nature is presented as a necessary element in the fight against studio stagnation, and his problems with alcohol and drugs come across as a consequence of his inability to do what he wanted (though reason leads us to conversely see the lack of offers as a reaction to the director’s complicated nature). Though Passion and Poetry contains of minimum of clips from the films discussed (mostly only trailers), it offers a solid summary in its two-hour runtime. That said, it wouldn’t be inappropriate to stop diluting Peckinpah’s numerous flaws with a nostalgic and melancholic tone.
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