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	DVD Review - Straw Dogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Even the story of "Straw Dogs" is reminiscent of films such as "I Spit On Your Grave" where the theme of revenge after a rape an also be found, but in the hands of a filmmaker like Peckinpah, it turns into a study of social behavior that is both unsettling and eye-opening.
		With the release of "Straw Dogs" Criterion definitely lives upon to their reputation as a studio to present some of the finest releases.
		The transfer of "Straw Dogs" is simply staggering and belies the film’s age.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/straw_dogs.shtml (767 words)

	Straw Dogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Straw Dogs is a 1971 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.
		Many ceremonies in ancient China, during the time of Lao Zi, incorporated the use of dogs woven out of grass.
		Straw Dogs was wildly controversial on its release and has remained so to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Straw_Dogs (806 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Straw Dogs
		Straw Dogs even has an Amy Junior character in a younger local tease, who clearly sees the American's wife as a role model: in a screenplay perhaps a little top-heavy with symbolic portent, the two of them are introduced carrying a giant iron man-trap, the kind used to catch poachers.
		Straw Dogs' excellent character direction is periodically undercut by a new Peckinpah tendency to lean on obvious symbols and lame directorial touches, such as the 'clacking ball bearing' novelty item on David's desk.
		Straw Dogs is ugly and morally questionable, but it's still Peckinpah working at the height of his powers, expressing his antisocial outrage in original and interesting ways.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s748straw.html (2582 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Straw Dogs: The Criterion Collection
		It is this third-act violence in Straw Dogs that most closely ties into Peckinpah's other work, though there are hints and connections throughout, particularly with westerns, that are hard to ignore (the film opens — in a similar vein as the opening of The Wild Bunch — with children playing in a cemetery).
		Dogs features much of their furnishings: There's the "other" (in this case the locals) and the sexual threat associated with them, the pacifist called to violence to protect himself and his own (a common western theme since Destry Rides Again), and the siege that forces the innocent to protect the homestead.
		Because of the rape scene, some have argued that Straw Dogs is misogynist (though one could just as easily argue that Peckinpah is an equal opportunity misanthrope), a point of view bolstered by the introduction of Amy via her nipples.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/strawdogs_cc.shtml (2070 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Straw Dogs
		Sentimentality is a crutch for the weak, and Straw Dogs serves as the director's blistering treatise on man's inherent animalistic impulses.
		Straw Dogs' most infamous scene involves Amy's rape at the hands of both Charlie and one of his cohorts, and only a director like Peckinpah would have the gall to show Amy as not only somewhat responsible for this crime but also partially enjoying the act of violence.
		Straw Dogs is presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, and looks as clean and crisp as it ever has on home video.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=122 (1116 words)

	STRAW DOGS - MGM DVD
		The scene of violence against her is notorious, exhibit one in the case against Straw Dogs as misogynistic.
		Straw Dogs attracts a lot of derision from the Davids of the world, bumper sticker snags who would do well to appreciate that denial of the uglier truths about humanity--that we're stupid, venal, sexual, brutal animals--doesn't make them go away.
		Straw Dogs is a glimpse into the hell of our secret selves, into the stark realities we do our best to deny as well as the situations in which we hope never to find ourselves, lest we find ourselves lacking in the crucible of being utterly, nakedly human.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/strawdogs.htm (1225 words)

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		Straw Dogs are back in the studio working on a new record and playing some shows here and there so check out their
		In Straw Dogs news, the songs "Amelia" are still in top rotation in the great country of Belgium.
		In Straw Dogs news, the songs "Amelia" and "Not Gone" is in top rotation in the great country of Belgium.
	www.craftyrecords.com (204 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Straw Dogs
		But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the pastoral village lies a savagery and violence that threatens to destroy the couple, culminating in a brutal test of Sumner’s manhood and a bloody battle to the death.
		One of the most controversial films ever made, Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs is a harrowing and masterful investigation of masculinity and the nature of violence.
		Straw Dogs is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=182 (285 words)

	Straw Dogs (1971)
		Straw Dogs appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.78:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		This MGM release marked the third DVD incarnation of Straw Dogs after a late Nineties take from Anchor Bay and a 2003 edition from Criterion.
		I can’t issue a general recommendation for Straw Dogs because the subject matter will turn off too many people, but if you don’t mind this sort of flick, then you should definitely give the film a look.
	www.dvdmg.com /strawdogsmgm.shtml (2027 words)

	Straw Dogs
		While not for all tastes, Straw Dogs is among the greatest studies of violence ever filmed.
		I watched Straw Dogs this weekend for the first time in a decade, and I was stunned.
		Straw Dogs was strong medicine for its time, and still is. Pauline Kael, a longtime Peckinpah supporter, famously dubbed the film "fascist." Feminists hated its portrayal of a wife who seemed to want to be raped.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/1912/strawdogs.html (1313 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: Straw Dogs by John Gray
		With the crankish, unbalanced Straw Dogs, he emerges as a full-blooded apocalyptic nihilist.
		Straw Dogs, like all the ugly rightwing ecology for which humanity is just an excrescence, is shot through with a kind of intellectual equivalent of genocide.
		The enemy in his sights is not so much a Straw Dog as a Straw Man: the kind of starry-eyed rationalist who passed away with John Stuart Mill, but who he has to pretend still rules the world.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,786573,00.html (710 words)

	Images - Straw Dogs
		For that reason, Straw Dogs is still banned in the U.K., a fact that this recent video release plays for maximum impact, with the words "BANNED IN THE U.K." emblazoned on the front of the video cover.
		Straw Dogs isn't in the same category as Peckinpah's best work, for the movie is seriously flawed by its caveman attitude toward women.
		Straw Dogs is now available from Anchor Bay Entertainment in a digitally mastered, letterboxed edition.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue06/reviews/strawdogs.htm (861 words)

	Amazon.com: Straw Dogs - Criterion Collection: DVD: Dustin Hoffman,Susan George,Peter Vaughan,T.P. McKenna,Del ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The love-hate dynamic that Peckinpah inspired is especially evident in the illuminating 2002 interviews with Straw Dogs costar Susan George and producer Daniel Melnick, both full of anecdotal affection, humor, and pride in their controversial film; it's a pity Hoffman didn't participate.
		Sam Pecknpah followed his extremely violent and critically acclaimed 'The Wild Bunch' with the even more violent 'Straw Dogs', which didn't sit as well with the critics; in fact, 'Straw Dogs' was shocking enough to be banned in the UK where it was filmed, although in the US it was released with an X rating.
		Three and a half decades later, though, it's easier to appreciate 'Straw Dogs' for the groundbreaking creation that it was, and its influence can clearly be seen in the works of such contemporary directors as David Fincher, David Lynch and Todd Solondz, among others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000087EYE?v=glance (3650 words)

	EI > DVD > Straw Dogs (1971)
		Straw Dogs has gained an extra notoriety by virtue of being banned in the UK since 1984.
		Watching the movie one can tell that Amy does not enjoy the rape, what she is enjoying are the lustful advances of someone she has been the lover of in the past, so her responses are both welcoming and repelled at the same time, which is evident in Susan George’s skillful performance.
		As a movie, Straw Dogs is a powerful piece of cinema with its mild mannered civilized “hero”, who has not only to become the worm that turned but the worm that turned with a shotgun.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=241 (784 words)

	DVD Times - Straw Dogs
		His underrated masterpiece, ‘Cross of Iron’ would carry the conceit still further, yet the majority of ‘Straw Dogs’ still stands as a unique and extraordinary example of what this remarkable director was capable of.
		Straw Dogs is similar in that its reputation as a 'challenge' film does it no favours.
		I agree largely with what you're saying Dodd, but while Straw Dogs may have been banned in the UK for its sexualised violence, I think it's a testament to its power as a film that we're discussing it with so much interest.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13134 (2334 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Straw Dogs (Criterion) / DVD-Video
		Someone famous once said, “The Meek shall inherit the Earth.” History has proven that this is sometimes true and STRAW DOGS is a film that not only introduces the idea but also proves it to be the final truth.
		STRAW DOGS was torn apart by many critics at first for it’s shocking scenes.
		And then he made Straw Dogs, an even more 'serious' film, which cemented his status by some as a director to look for in future years.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=464959&partner_id=29346865 (378 words)

	Diana Judd on John Gray's Straw Dogs -- Logos Summer 2003
		His latest book, Straw Dogs, takes aim at a host of targets in what appears to be a wholesale deconstruction of human thought.
		Instead, the reader is treated to an array of disconnected quotations from Aristotle to Zarathustra, none of which serve to illustrate a coherent argument.
		Straw Dogs does contain moments where important topics such as the environment and the idea of progress, the future of genetic engineering and its effect on humanity, and the underlying philosophies of western and eastern religions are raised.
	www.logosjournal.com /judd.htm (673 words)

	Straw Dogs: Criterion (1971)
		Unfortunately, the monaural soundtrack of Straw Dogs hasn’t aged nearly as well.
		Though not horrible for its age, the audio of Straw Dogs seemed generally weak.
		I can’t issue a general recommendation for Straw Dogs because the subject matter will turn off too many people, but if you don’t mind this sort of flick, then you should definitely give the terrific Criterion DVD a look.
	www.dvdmg.com /strawdogs.shtml (2410 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Eyes opening up
		At the time of "A Clockwork Orange" and "Straw Dogs," Kubrick was seen as an artist-intellectual, conducting a moral inquiry into human nature.
		In "Straw Dogs," too, the wife (Susan George) is an erotic magnet, the husband (Dustin Hoffman) a complaisant bozo with a professional detachment toward life (he's an "astromathematician," not a doctor).
		But I undervalued "Straw Dogs" because I disdained its combination of vitality and despair; I was looking for the mad romantic transcendence of the self-immolating warriors in "The Wild Bunch." I wasn't prepared for a film about the limits (and perhaps the impossibility) of love.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/07/29/straw (1003 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Straw Dogs DVD
		Along the way you'll learn some interesting facts, but most of it is pointing out the effect that certain shots and cuts have on the story, and arguing against the reputation this movie has unfairly gained.
		Susan George Interview Susan George has some interesting stories to tell about the making of "Straw dogs", not least her walking off set because Peckinpah refused to tell her what would happen during the rape scene.
		Additional Special Features Also on the disc is a text history of "Straw Dogs" and the BBFC, location stills gallery, publicity material galleries, resources including reviews, filmographies, facts and fascinating correspondence, a trailer, TV spots and radio spots.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/10/07/straw_dogs_1971_dvd_review.shtml (715 words)

	CRITIQUE :: Straw Dogs by John Gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Now in Straw Dogs he seems to be attacking any sense of false hope, belief in human progress, religious or mystical salvation.
		At least Straw Dogs is much more intellectually stimulating than ninety percent of what passes through the bookbinder for public consumption these days.
		Whether Gray is unconsciously proposing a neo-anarchist philosophy, a brand-new-secondhand version of Stoicism, or if in complete awareness he is about to don steel-spiked wristbands and snap slack-jawed balcony dwellers out of their middle aged malaise is all very hard to say.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/strawdogs.html (941 words)

	DVD Breakdown \| Straw Dogs (1971)
		But whatever your own interpretation of Straw Dogs is, it remains a fascinating example of cinema's potentially polarizing nature, and true talent's unique ability to engage the viewer in moral issues that may prove impossible to resolve.
		He proclaims Straw Dogs to be Peckinpah's masterpiece and then continues to defend it on all the points for which it has so frequently been criticized.
		Somewhat more specific to Straw Dogs itself is the 26-minute featurette 'On Location: Dustin Hoffman', produced for television back in 1971, in which we follow the young movie star through several moods around the location shoot of the film.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/strawdogs.html (1380 words)

	Gordon Williams interview - Gordon Williams on Straw Dogs
		Brian Pendreigh discovers that the author of the once notorious Straw Dogs is planning a sequel three decades later, even though he hated the original movie.
		But after watching it again for the first time in 30 years, Williams has changed his mind and revealed he is plotting a shocking sequel, with plenty of murderous revenge.
		Starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, who play an American mathematician and his wife terrorised by their Cornish neighbours, Straw Dogs caused outrage when it was released in 1971.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /feats/interviews/s/straw_dogs.shtml (888 words)

	Straw Dogs - Movie Review
		So, to recap: Americans and academics are wimps and fools, Brits are alcoholic and violence-prone, all outsiders deserved to be abused and mocked, and rape isn’t just a weapon of power men use against women – it’s a weapon women use against the well-meaning but shiftless men who fail to protect them.
		Straw Dogs sprang out of the early ‘70s as part of a string of movies that sympathized with vigilante justice; Joe, Dirty Harry, and Dog Day Afternoon, among others, all argued that a lone gunman had more morals and authority than a national justice system.
		Straw Dogs is the grittiest of the bunch, and the one most willing to toss us down the rabbit hole into a confused and bloody moral universe.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/strawdogs (462 words)

	Straw Dogs on StrangeVibes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As a four-piece rock outfit, Straw Dogs consistently puts on dynamic live shows.
		And with occasional guest musicians in the line-up, including keyboards, pedal steel, and dobro, Straw Dogs never fails to deliver a high-output performance.
		Straw Dogs draws impressive comparisons: the rock and groove of Counting Crows and David Gray, melody and harmony of CSN and Indigo Girls, and songwriting that demonstrates an allegiance to the craft.
	www.strangevibes.com /StrawDogs.html (290 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		John Gray's Straw Dogs attempts to present a world view in which humans are not central and which argues against the humanist belief in progress.
		The heart of the book is summed up in the idea that modern humanists have still not come to terms with Darwin, still not come to terms with the idea that humans are like other animals.
		Straw Dogs can be usefully compared with Mary Midgely's excellent Science and Poetry since both take off from the view of man as animal while sharing similar views about the cultural role of philosophy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1862075964 (790 words)

	Granta: Straw Dogs (Paperback)
		Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human.
		Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest held beliefs.
		Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions
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