RIP Arthur Penn

The great director Arthur Penn has passed away:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/sns-arthur-penn-death,0,7876188.story

My favorite Penn film is Night Moves, which is one of the finest neo-noirs ever made. Of course Bonnie and Clyde is his most famous film, and I don't think its impact on the course of American cinema has been over-rated; it landed like a bombshell towards the end of a listless decade in American film, and helped kick off the wave of top-notch commercial film-making that lasted for about a decade (1967-1976, roughly). It is too bad that, like most everyone else, Penn hit a rough patch in the Eighties; his last "ambitious" film was the underrated Four Friends in 1981 (although I hear that Penn & Teller Get Killed, 1989, is interesting; and I adore Penn & Teller). One curious item in Penn's IMDB filmography that I would like to know more about is a 1968 television movie -- the year after Bonnie and Clyde -- called Flesh and Blood, with an incredible cast consisting of Edmond O'Brien, Kim Stanley, Robert Duvall, Suzanne Pleshette, E.G. Marshall, and Kim Darby.