Monday 31 July 2017

SAM SHEPARD: CINEMA AS A SOCIAL COMMITMENT

Sam Shepard
First time The Grandma watched Sam Shepard in a film was in 1987. The film was called Baby Boom and explained the adventures of an agressive executive woman, played by Diane Keaton, who has to take care of a little baby and decides to travel to a small town to start a new life.

After that film, Sam Shepard was an habitual actor for The Grandma who has always admired him: The Right Stuff, Crimes of the Heart, Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief, Swordfish, Fair Game or Ithaca are considered a must in the list of The Grandma's great movies.

More information: Britannica

Sam Shepard was an American actor, screenwriter, playwright, director, and author. The following is his screen filmography as an actor, screenwriter, and director. Shepard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. The following year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Paris, Texas (1984). For his role in the 1999 television film Dash and Lilly, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film. 

Sit tibi terra levis, Sam!


Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. 
As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. 
It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. 

Sam Shepard

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