BONNIE AND CLYDE Director Arthur Penn dead at age 88

He was a fine director of many excellent and influential films.

From The New York Times:

Arthur Penn, the stage, television and motion picture director whose revolutionary treatment of sex and violence in the 1967 film BONNIE AND CLYDE transformed the American film industry, died on Tuesday night at his home in Manhattan, the day after he turned 88.

The cause was congestive heart failure, his son, Matthew, said.

A pioneering director of live television drama in the 1950s and a Broadway powerhouse in the 1960s, Mr. Penn developed an intimate, spontaneous and physically oriented method of directing actors that allowed their work to register across a range of mediums…..
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